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By
Tim Young
There is a thin line between luxury and necessity. A necessity is something that
is essential for basic survival. A source of water. Some sort of basic
nutritional sustenance. Protection from the elements.
However, as most of the people on this planet move away from a life of staving
off attacks by wolves and leopards, and put away their hunter-gatherer ways, the
definition of necessity starts to expand.
Shelter. Electricity. Education. Safety.
And, increasingly, communications.
I can’t speak for everyone, but as a
citizen of the United States, I tend to
focus on the Western paradigm of
wireless communications. I see a
communications climate that is
constantly increasing in depth and
speed, with roots in PSTN legacy
networks, and becoming less and less
telco-centric and more and more mobile-
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Gathanju, a resident of Kenya who has
witnessed the communication growth
in his homeland first-hand. We also
hear from our own Ed Finegold, who,
as always, brings his ample BSS
experience to an examination of the
special needs of the emerging markets.
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centric with every passing day.
However, there is an ENOURMOUS portion of the world’s population for whom
communications have leapfrogged the byzantine legacy environment to become a
wireless world that simultaneously serves the logistics needs of wireless
providers and delivers unprecedented levels of connectivity to mobile
subscribers.
However, behind every emerging market scenario are numerous OSS/BSS puzzles that
must be solved in order to deliver the best possible service experience to the
booming numbers of emerging market subscribers.
This issue of Pipeline examines some of
those puzzles. Our editorial team takes
a look at trends in wireless for
developing markets and how OSS/BSS
providers can help to master these
issues. We feature insight from Denis
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We also hear from the experts at ConceptWave, who highlight the challenges, as
well as the opportunities, that await CSPs in emerging markets, and how
flexibility can help to maximize the business case for activity in these
markets. In addition, we have an article from the communications IT specialists
at Tekelec, who highlight the policy control needs of the nascent LTE market.
Also not to be overlooked; Pipeline hosts a special preview of this year’s
AfricaCom conference.
All that, plus the latest on upcoming OSS/BSS events, and a wealth of other news
and analysis from the OSS and BSS worlds.
Enjoy.
-Tim Young
Editor-in-Chief
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