Features
Billing the iPOD phone
Richard McBride looks at the profitability challenges of the iPOD phone and examines how OSS applications such as interconnect billing and mediation can help operators transform this new musical device into a commercial success for all
Ubiquity
Following World Telecom 2006, the ITU assesses the connected world we live in today – and how technology will shape tomorrow
Telcos v. ISPs
Hugh Roberts looks at how service providers are developing their offerings and the consequences it may have for OSS/BSS systems which are already in place
Smart phone complexity
Doug Overton investigates the causes behind the mobile ‘No Fault Found’ phenomenon and how the industry can solve this vastly expensive problem
Regulatory framework
Malcolm Dowden charts developments in the regulatory framework, which is designed to encompass the European communications market
Project management
Projects fail - some spectacularly - and, looking at project management statistics, if you were a betting man you wouldn’t lay money on their successful delivery. But is failure inevitable? Are project managers doomed to spend their careers
NGN application servers
Paul Bassa picks his way through some of the ‘knowns’ and ‘unknowns’ of Next Generation Networks and suggests that service providers will need to employ insight and wisdom if they are to reap the rewards of IP migration
Newspeak
European Communications presents its regular round-up of the latest developments in the world of telecommunications
