Helsinki – 5th October, 2021 - Qvantel, a leader in Digital BSS, has announced that it has opened a new office in Panama and is actively recruiting staff as part of its regional expansion. As well as providing local support for customers in the region, the Panama office will also provide engineering support to Qvantel’s regional headquarters in Colombia.
Digital-sub brands are a telco success story. By removing the legacy roadblock to digital transformation and starting with a fresh greenfield site many sub-brands are seeing excellent results in a very short timeframe. Sub-brands are out-performing their parent telcos’ across a range of strategic KPIs. In March 2021 McKinsey published an article called “A battle plan for telcos’ digital-attacker...
This article was first published in Mobile Magazine
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 because they have taken an IT-centric approach to source, run, and evolve their mission-critical business platforms.
What should be simple became...
This article was first published on Telesemana.com
Telecom companies are often regarded as providing little differentiation by way of service delivery, pricing, and quality. However, providing an excellent customer experience is arguably more important now than ever before in the face of unparalleled levels of competition.
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The recent news that AT&T is moving its 5G core to Microsoft Azure is the latest advance that we’re seeing in the industry moving towards the cloud. OSS and BSS have been running on private, hybrid, and public clouds for some time and now this is spreading to networks.
The marketing team in an operator wants to launch a new offer. They also want to grow the subscriber base and have developed a new referral scheme to attract new subscribers. The customer care team is under pressure to increase net promoter score and has developed a process to deliver a better online experience. They go to IT and request that these new use cases are implemented.
I recently had the pleasure of presenting on a webinar with Nokia and AWS on no-code and cloud-based monetization of the 5G economy. Listening to the speakers from AWS and Nokia, as well as discussions I’ve had in recent months with operators, it really hits home how different stand-alone (SA) 5G will be from all the other Gs.
Here’s a radical idea. You know that large-scale digital transformation project that you’re planning for or have just started. Take a step back and ask if there’s a quicker, more cost-effective and low-risk option.
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