Larry is head of Analysys Mason’s Subscription Research team. He co-founded OSS Observer, now part of Analysys Mason. Larry has over 25 years’ experience in telecoms software and network management. Before founding OSS Observer in 2003, he was OSS Program Director at RHK. Prior to joining RHK, he was Director of the Network Solutions Group at Tellabs, managed OSS development at GTE (now Verizon) and spent 12 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he was a manager responsible for HP OpenView development. Larry is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Operators are struggling to achieve growth in mature markets, so many are looking to the growth markets of Central and Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the emerging Asia–Pacific region. This complimentary briefing provides insight into the telecoms opportunities in these emerging markets.
Telenor, with infrastructure sharing partners in Norway and Sweden, is building new 4G networks and extending the current networks. Telcordia will be providing a ‘Plan-to-Provision’ solution for Telenor’s mobile network. Telenor will benefit from greater operational efficiency and will prepare for LTE and infrastructure sharing of its network.
This edition of the CEO Digest features an overview of the recently published NEMs network management systems market share report 2009, as well as commentary from the Hewlett-Packard industry analyst event. In addition, you will find articles on how SaaS can benefit BSSs and OSSs, and on how infrastructure sharing can reduce costs for MNOs.
The Indian government’s Unique Identifier (UID) initiative creates the opportunity to reach several hundred million consumers who presently have no opportunity to get mobile phones or even banking services. This comment identifies four important developments in the India market resulting from the UID initiative.
Amdocs announced a new release of its Customer Experience System on 19 January 2010. It represents a further evolution of the product line as part of Amdocs’ attempt to provide an overall suite of highly advanced, exceptionally scalable OSS, BSS and SDP products.
