The burgeoning mobile services market in Africa is fueling demand for Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT) systems that can support the back office needs of the continent's operators, as well as generating new business for wireless infrastructure vendors (as we noted Tuesday -- see Africa's Wireless Gold Rush).
Zimbabwe's national operator TelOne has deployed FTS's Leap Billing system for a range of tasks, including convergent billing and charging, interconnect billing, invoicing, order management, customer management, network management and mediation.
South African operator Vodacom Pty. Ltd. , which has 31 million customers, is using The Now Factory's Mobile Moments Vantage system as part of its plans to monitor its data services and optimize customer experience metrics. The news follows last week's announcement that Vodafone Ghana, which has 4.3 million customers, has chosen The Now Factory to monitor its customers' mobile data service experiences. (See Vodafone Goes to The Now Factory for CEM.)
MTN South Africa has chosen Celcite's network optimization offering to help manage its 2G and 3G networks. The operator will use the COPS-AIC software for root cause analysis of network problems.
The 'gleaming city on a hill,' Steve Saunders calls it. But who is going to take us from today's NFV componentry to the grand future of a self-driving network? Here's a look at the vendors hoping to make it happen.
With the mobile ecosystem becoming increasingly vulnerable to security threats, AdaptiveMobile has laid out some of the key considerations for the wireless community.
Understanding the full experience of women in technology requires starting at the collegiate level (or sooner) and studying the technologies women are involved with, company cultures they're part of and personal experiences of individuals.
During this WiC radio show, we will talk with Nicole Engelbert, the director of Research & Analysis for Ovum Technology and a 23-year telecom industry veteran, about her experiences and perspectives on women in tech. Engelbert covers infrastructure, applications and industries for Ovum, but she is also involved in the research firm's higher education team and has helped colleges and universities globally leverage technology as a strategy for improving recruitment, retention and graduation performance.
She will share her unique insight into the collegiate level, where women pursuing engineering and STEM-related degrees is dwindling. Engelbert will also reveal new, original Ovum research on the topics of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, security and augmented reality, as well as discuss what each of those technologies might mean for women in our field. As always, we'll also leave plenty of time to answer all your questions live on the air and chat board.
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