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Voiceworks Changes the Communications Landscape in the Netherlands & Germany with Cisco

Voiceworks delivers telephony solutions from the cloud Voiceworks BV, an Almere based company in The Netherlands, is one of the largest and fastest growing VoIP & web technology specialists. They are achieving great success in the Dutch and German telecom world with its corporate Unified Communi…

Cisco’s 3-Phase Plan for your 5G success

It is generally accepted that revenues for mobile service providers are trending flat to down. A recent ARPU report from Informa provides this picture in detail by country. Some mobile service providers have acquired content services as a way to boost this trend, but they admit that this too will ev…

Prognosticating a Cloud Native Mobile Service Provider

Written by Vy Kuchibhatla, Senior Manager, MBG Operations and Strategy At MWC 2017, two key themes received a bulk of the focus from a network equipment provider perspective: 5G and NFV/Automation (Verizon/Cisco, Telus/Cisco, NTT/Cisco, Reliance Jio/Cisco). This article focuses on the genesis of NFV…

XL Axiata Transforms Mobility in Indonesia

With Continuous Network Improvements In 2016, XL Lays Foundation for Stronger 2017 XL Axiata is one of the largest cellular operators in Indonesia for consumer and machine-to-machine (M2M) services. Their subscriber base now totals more than 45M subscribers just having added more than 1M customers i…

December 12, 2016

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Cisco Ultra Packet Core, the Transition Begins

So yesterday we had our first snowfall up here in New England, holidays are coming fast, and so are events like the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress. Well while it was snowing yesterday, I realized that I had not updated our industry veterans on our Packet Core Transition. So ther…

What’s driving future profits for mobile network operators?

From retail to entertainment, mobility is transforming industries across the spectrum. It’s part of the wider digitalization that is transforming our world and bringing new opportunities for businesses to get the edge over the competition. Or they could get left behind: it’s sink-or-swim. All kinds…

MWC16 takeaways

Mobile World Congress (MWC) continues to set records for attendance with 101,000 people through the doors according to GSMA. At our Cisco booth we hosted over 450 meetings with Service Providers, and as usual the discussions were frank and insightful. The “smorgasbord” of topics covered with our cu…

February 21, 2016

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Transforming into a Mobile Cloud Services Provider

Mobile network operators face interesting challenges today. Their customers have fully embraced the digital world, and that digital world keeps expanding. Most individuals have multiple devices, and more “things” are getting connected each day. However, for the most part, revenues for the Mobile ope…