Operator and vendor frustration with the European mobile standardization environment seems to be coming to a head. Read the rest of this entry »
One of my colleagues has already blogged about NSN’s new “solutions & services” marketing pitch unveiled at an analyst event last week. It’s always healthy to be sceptical about repositioning exercises of this type but nevertheless I reckon that some interesting and dare I say it genuinely transformational developments are happening at NSN.
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If the last week is anything to go by running a network has become an increasingly optional component of a European mobile operator’s business.
In the space of one week we’ve seen four managed services announcements from European mobile operators. Four swallows don’t make a summer but it’s the calibre of the operators making these decisions that is just as significant as the number of contracts.
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In one sense it’s no surprise that CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie chose to highlight the fast-growing subscriber data management market at the NSN analyst event at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
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The glory days of basic science research at Bell Labs may be over, but there was a buzz in the air at last week’s Bell Labs Innovation Day taking place at Alcatel-Lucent’s plush Paris HQ just off the Champs-Elysées.
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Kris Szaniawski
Kris is a Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media and is responsible for the Networks and Mobile Operator Intelligence Centre research portals.