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Telco operators across the globe have been making heavy infrastructure investments to enable 5G rollouts. Boston Consulting Group anticipates that US communications service providers (CSPs) alone will spend more than $250 billion on these rollouts between 2020 and 2025. These investments are…
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Today’s telcos and communication service providers (CSPs) are seeking new ways to monetize their offerings and services, especially in light of 5G, IoT, and industrial IoT. In their quest to help telcos ultimately increase average revenue per user (ARPU), telco software vendors…
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In February, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched a new Enterprise Communications Technology Group (CTG) to help telcos and enterprises capitalize on the 5G opportunity. As a partner of HPE, the Volt Active Data team couldn’t be more excited about this development and…
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Volt Active Data was recently added to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a Linux Foundation subsidiary that is committed to building sustainable cloud ecosystems. As big believers in cloud-native technology, we couldn’t be more excited by the news. The CNCF maintains…
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Business support systems (BSS)—specifically, charging and policy functions—hold the key to monetizing 5G investments for telecommunications companies and their partners. However, for this key to unlock new revenue for communication service providers (CSPs), there are a couple of things that need to…
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It’s shaping up to be a massive year of growth for 5G, with major telecom providers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T competing for market dominance. Over the next several months, we should see large-scale domestic rollouts of 5G networks, as mmWave deployments…
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Modern telcos have a bandwidth issue—not the same bandwidth-limitation issue they’ve had for the last three decades or so but the fact that an entirely new and far more powerful bandwidth age is upon us, unleashing new threats and new opportunities that…
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CSPs: What’s your BSS sourcing and partnering strategy, and is it truly 5G-ready? That’s the central question addressed by Gartner’s Market Guide for CSP Business Support System Solutions, which explores the BSS landscape, how new technology is changing it, and what you,…
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Recently, experts from Volt Active Data presented a webinar, “The Hidden Inflection Point in 5G: When the Changing Definition of Real-Time Breaks Your Existing Tech Stack”. In this webinar, Dheeraj Remella, Volt Active Data’s Chief Product Officer, covered why you need to…
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And Why It Matters for Telcos In a very well written Forbes article this week, Olivier Garret – founding Partner and CEO of RiskHedge – states that edge computing is the “golden thread that connects today’s most exciting megatrends”, and that “technologies…
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Fraud has been an ongoing problem for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and their customers for decades, with a ever evolving cat and mouse game being played out between CSPs and fraudsters. This issue rings closer to my heart as I was recently…
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When it finally comes about in the next two or three years, the 5G telecom standard will bring with it radical changes to the way we use data. Many people focus mostly on the consumer-grade upsides: fiber-like speeds directly to the phone,…