Creating new, digital-centric brands has become an effective strategy for telecom operators to attack new market segments, gain market share, and quickly launch new propositions that address consumers demands for simplicity and self-service oriented models. Italy's Very Mobile is a great example of such a success that was rapidly launched in four months. Very Mobile
More than a century ago, the great scientist Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” By this, he meant that sudden flashes of insight and success don’t just happen but are the products of preparation. We’d like to share our story of how early adoption of digital, cloud, and a BSS as a Service (SaaS) way of working helped Qvantel successfully serve our customers through pandemic...
Making the shift to the cloud and cloud-native architecture is becoming increasingly crucial for the telecoms industry to be able to react more quickly to challenges and changes posed by new digital native entrants. But what does cloud-native mean? The official definition of cloud-native is:
“Cloud-native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern,...
The CSP journey to the cloud is not new, but it certainly is complex. As such, many of the initial cloud deployments were done at higher levels of the stack, such as customer engagement systems, in order not to disturb the business continuity supported by some of the legacy, highly customized Business Support Systems (BSS), with their monolithic structures and proprietary...
Digital transformation can be hard, especially for established telcos. Legacy processes, systems, and legacy thinking can stall the best intentions of telcos looking to evolve into new digital-first companies. Getting to the point where they are selling a range of digital services across a variety of digital platforms to an increasingly digital-savvy customer base can be a hazardous journey.
Business Support Systems (BSS) are at the heart of a telecom operator’s successful business operations. But in the past two decades, operators have drifted away from a focus on their business by taking an IT-centric approach to source, run, and evolve their mission-critical business platforms.
What should be simple has become complicated, slow, and expensive. This has led to an unhealthy...
Altán, the first fully wholesaler Mobile Operator in the world, serving the Mexican market, and Sayco, one of the Mexico-based MVNOs on the Altán platform, have successfully completed the Go-live of their new digital business proposition that offers mobile services for Mexican consumers.
Since the current pandemic has limited or stopped the majority of in-person events, we have to work harder at finding ways to connect and tell our stories. And though there is now a vaccine for Covid 19, it's still unclear if and when we will return to how we used to do business with face to face interactions.
Qvantel is proud to be a part of DNA's continuous digitalization journey that has generated new revenue streams, improved customer experiences, allows rapid reaction to competitors, and has helped DNA lead the industry with the highest usage of mobile data in the world.