Features
COLUMN: TELECOM ECONOMICS - Towards a new deal?
Benoit Reillier provides an update on the key regulatory topics that will shape the telecoms market over the next few years
CHARGING MODELS - Old wisdom, new business
As the telecoms industry embraces transformation - and all that implies - Alex Leslie argues that billing, or the now more fashionable "revenue management", remains strategic in a deeply unpredictable marketplace
OPEN SOURCE - Defragmenting the mobile Internet
The move to open source in content delivery could be the much-needed catalyst to driving the mobile web forward says Mark Watson
LEAD INTERVIEW - Changing dynamics
There's a stark dynamic framing in the telecoms Operations Support Systems (OSS) market. Until recently networks were expensive while the price tags for the OSS systems used to assure the services running across them were, by comparison, puny.
MOBILE ADVERTISING - In at the beginning
The mobile advertising sector will be worth $18.5 billion by 2010, largely because advertisers want to take advantage of the most exciting channel for delivering targeted messaging in the history of advertising, but also because operators want to
MOBILE TEST AND MONITORING - Mastering the tools
Test and monitoring has transitioned from being a ‘necessary evil' to maintain the network, into a key business enabler, according to Michele Campriani, allowing operators to rapidly expand their service portfolios and at the same time reduce operating expenses
LOCAL CONNECTIVITY - A bridge to the unconnected
It has now been proven that access to digital communications has a direct and measurable impact on economic growth. Yet despite this, Janne Hazell explains, huge numbers of emerging market communities, often located at the very source of
INTERNET BUSINESS MODELS - The commoditisation of bandwidth
To enable a successful Web 2.0, we also need Internet 2.0 says Richard Lowe
