By: Jesse Cryderman
It would be hard not to see that these are some of the most exciting times to be involved in telecommunications. Many analysts feel there is greater change afoot in the current decade
than in the previous 100 years, and it’s easy to see why: “the Internet of Things” is evolving from concept to reality, high-speed mobile connectivity is becoming pervasive, the cloud is
lowering the cost of IT as well as the barrier to entry for new businesses, and Big Data analytics are helping everyone make smarter, more personalized choices…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
There are several directives that drive operations when you’re a communications service provider (CSP): ensure that services work properly and are charged and billed
appropriately, deliver an optimal customer experience, and identify and exploit new revenue opportunities. Of course, there are many more wheels in motion, but those three
imperatives percolate through most decisions. It may sound clichéd, because it is, but knowledge is power — and clear visibility into the inner workings of these key operational areas is
tantamount to success…
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By: Becky Bracken
In Japan earlier this year NTT Docomo announced a partnership with local organic-foods retailer Radishbo-ya. At first glance a mobile operator selling organic
vegetables seems like an odd move, but Docomo is predicting that its entry into eight new vertical markets — media content, aggregation platforms, safety and security, healthcare, ecology, M2M
(machine-to-machine communications), finance, and commerce — will net an additional one trillion yen in revenue, or roughly $10…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
From pinball machines and Super Mario Bros. Nintendo cartridges to PC role-playing games and now wildly popular tablet and smartphone franchises, gaming has come a long way. The
digital revolution took it from the physical plane of arcades and living rooms to the virtual plane, and today the mobile revolution is transforming it once again. While Gen Xers
still bond over shared memories of “fixing” malfunctioning console cartridges by blowing on their metal contacts, today’s gamers get their content beamed from the
cloud, wherever they may be and whenever they desire…
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By: Monica Ricci
While revenue growth and, more critically, margins have been slowing or have even stalled for traditional voice and text services, business services provide a bright spot
for providers, showing the most potential for growth in an otherwise economically gloomy telecom market.Companies in many industries are finding compelling reasons, from cloud computing
to machine-to-machine communications (M2M), to seek out advanced services as part of their technology strategy. As a result, enterprise services are truly big business for communications service
providers (CSPs): by some estimates, cloud and M2M revenue will grow at 25 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) over the next five years…
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By: Becky Bracken
In this day and age books, cars, utilities — even your grandma, if you think about it — are all hooked up to “the Internet of Things.” Evidence of the exploding number of devices
and uses for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications presents itself everywhere you look, with streetlights, traffic signals, tollbooths, and vending machines all receiving a digital
makeover via real-time connectivity. Essentially every imaginable function of society is merging with some sort of communications network…
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By: Jim Poole
Location confers powerful advantages, and no one understands this better than bricks-and-mortar retail chains. Choosing where to put a new store can be such a big differentiator that many
companies, particularly Starbucks and Walgreens, guard their site-selection processes like trade secrets. To help maximize return on investment (ROI), retailers often evaluate hundreds of
empirical-data sources and subjective indicators, and through trial and error the industry as a whole has amassed volumes of research and decades of best practices in order to
improve the science and art of site selection…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
Boy, do the future drivers of the world have it easy. Thanks to audible navigation assistance they’ll never get lost, while safety warnings and information
on local hotels and restaurants will eliminate other anxieties. If unforeseen traffic puts them behind schedule they’ll just make a hands-free phone call or send a
text message via voice to alert their boss or dinner date, and if they get bored sitting in that traffic they’ll be able to stream the entire history of recorded music…
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By: Patrick MeLampy
Your desk is about to become much bigger — or so it will seem once that clunky, boxlike object called a desk phone is out of your way.From the introduction of
the iPhone and over-the-top (OTT) service offerings to the rise of unified communications (UC) and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) corporate policies, the tech developments of
the past half decade or so have expedited “the death of the desk phone” and heralded a major upheaval in the way we work and communicate…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
The 2013 COMET Innovation AwardsNominations are still open for Pipeline’s 2013 COMET Innovation Awards program, which provides the highest level of objective endorsement for innovation and
thought leadership in the communications and entertainment technology (COMET) industry. The competition is heating up with nominations from the industry’s leading innovators, and this year
there are more chances to win — both service providers and vendors can compete in all categories. After last year’s incredible event in Dublin, Ireland, the historic Les Salons
de la Rotonde Lenôtre in Nice, France, will play host to an exclusive awards ceremony you won’t want to miss…
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By: Tim Young - do not use (default)
“Opportunity, opportunity / This is your big opportunity / They shop around / Follow you without a sound / Whatever you do now / Don’t turn around” —Elvis Costello & the
Attractions, “Opportunity” (1980) I know. The word “opportunity” is so ... Tony Robbins. Every setback is an “opportunity.” Every bit of extra work. Every bump in the road. The word
has all but lost its meaning.Still, it seems that if you can look at the wide world of connectivity that surrounds us and not see the potential, you might be more than just stagnating — you
might be losing ground…
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