Comments allow us to pass on our informed opinion on industry developments, based on our attendance at conferences and analyst events, on information provided in news announcements and briefings and on our ongoing assessment of the industry.
We give Leapfactor 2½ TIGR stars for its user-friendly, cloud-based, mobile enterprise applications platform and offerings. There are some holes in the offering – mostly as a result of the early-stage nature of the business.
Service broker deployments play a key role in bridging the gap between the existing legacy networks and the next-generation network. For example, a service platform that provides freephone-type services to GSM subscribers can be extended to an IMS environment without modifying the service platform or the service application.
We give the Cisco Systems' HCS a TIGR rating of 2 stars for its announcement that Verizon Business is testing its Hosted Collaboration Solution. The offering has some holes, some of which are caused by Verizon Business’ unwillingness to address its trial plans.
We give the HP’s announcement 3 stars for the company's leadership in recognising the power of the CSP channel in the SME sector; its combination of compute/storage hardware plus OSS/BSS solutions and experience; and the importance of cloud technology in the sector.
The Enterprise programme will be using a new type of Comment – a report card that provides a quick way to quickly and effectively exposit our thoughts and opinions about vendor and service provider announcements and briefings.
Refarming 900MHz spectrum is gathering momentum across Europe. Using 900MHz frequencies for 3G services offers significant technical and financial advantages to mobile operators. However, the differences between countries mean that a consistent approach to refarming 900MHz spectrum across Europe will not be possible.
The usage of mobile media services is more prevalent among younger people, and this is often assumed simply to be the product of this demographic group's more-ready acceptance of new technologies. However, we believe that two other factors lie behind this effect: wealth and time constraints.
Operators are under pressure to balance market share expansion with profitability, making service relevance and integration critical to incremental revenue growth and customer retention.
Growth in mobile data revenue was unable to compensate for the decline in voice revenue in Europe in 2009, but had a significant impact on the US market. This comment piece compares key metrics on the European market from our Telecoms Market Matrix with data points on the US market.
On 9 June 2010, TEOCO Corporation announced its plan to acquire TTI Team Telecom International, a public software supplier of service assurance software, in an all-cash transaction valued at USD58 million. TEOCO provides cost, routing and revenue management solutions. We estimate that TTI Telecom generated USD40 million in sales to CSPs in 2009. TTI Telecom’s Netrac products cover a wide range of OSS functionality, focusing on performance management, fault management and service management.
