the telecommunications industry plays an important role in providing ict services to a wide range of customers. in addition to individual customers, corporate customers also are user of these services and have an important role to make return on investment for telecom companies (telcos). therefore, this group of customers should not be ignored by any reason. this is where the telecom companies ...

The task of this background paper is to show that m-payments are likely to become an important section of the retail payment sector and to identify future policy issues related to the development of mobile payments. Both the current market penetration of mobile phones and the expected growth of m-commerce make it highly likely that m-payments will grow considerably within the next few years. Wh...

The paradigm shift from centralized services into hundreds of thousands of decentralized services changes traffic directions and patterns in the Internet. In that light, overlay providers form logical communication topologies, which effect the underlying telcos’ as well as Internet Service Providers’ (ISP) traffic and network management. Thus, Economic Traffic Management (ETM) principles deal w...

Modern telecommunications companies currently undergo remarkable structural changes to be successful in the Next-Generation markets for communications and content products. The implementation of capable IT structures will be a key success factor to be profitable. This paper describes the market challenges of telecommunications companies and illustrates a comparison of different governance metho...

The global telecommunications sector has been transforming rapidly as a result of deregulation; privatisation; competition from smaller telcos due to their ability to list on NASDAQ index; convergence of media and communication sectors; and driven by rapid uptake of Internet-related activities. Like many businesses, telcos expected to increase market capitalisation through dot.com floats, perce...

Nowadays, the competition in the telecommunications market is exciting and new entities with value-added services have emerged over the core network of Telecommunications operators (Telcos). These new participants have taken out the operators’ relevance since they are entirely agnostic from infrastructure service connectivity. Therefore Telcos, like Portugal Telecom Inovação (PTIN), need to foc...

the telecommunications industry plays an important role in providing ICT services to a wide range of customers. In addition to individual customers, corporate customers also are user of these services and have an important role to make return on investment for telecom companies (Telcos). Therefore, this group of customers should not be ignored by any reason. This is where the Telecom Companies ...

Cloud service for personal users has become more popular world-wide since Apple Inc. launched iCloud storage service in October, 2011. However, such cloud storage service was not new because many global telecom companies, usually called telcos, as well as many portals had already offered similar Internet-based online storage services at that time. As of now, there can be seen hundreds of divers...

This poster presentation describes the experiences related to network operations and management issues for a narrowband (class 5) switch progressing towards an integrated voice/data platform. These issues are about selecting a suitable network management tool, and about describing operations procedures for the craft person. The operations procedure include provisioning, fault management, alarmi...

OSS embodies the operations that telcos must carry out to meet customer satisfaction and generate revenue. Current and emerging OSS requirements place very strict requirements on the telecommunication management architecture. The distributed mediation-based management architecture has shown the kind of capability required to handle the ever-changing OSS needs. A mediation-based management syste...