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As the digital ecosystem expands, network operators are transforming into digital service providers. Here are the top reasons why. The only way for service providers to grow and more effectively compete is by changing the way they do business. Consumers value the companies providing digital services and content more than they do the network operators enabling those digital connections. Service providers now understand that their weight is no longer valued solely in being a provider of bandwidth; it is in being an enabler of services. This means they must undergo a digital transformation; they have no choice. Read More    

One operator that wanted to start an M2M line of business and expand its own cloud offerings switched to a fully hosted solution that helped it adapt an MVNO operation to an M2M organization. Due to current market demands for rapid introduction of next-generation technology and bottom line improvement CSPs are turning to managed services increasingly just as enterprises have done successfully for more than a decade. Read More  

Operators must work alongside device manufacturers to keep personal data and payment information safe from prying eyes. The digital world is no safer than the physical one, and making it safe ‘enough’ is a constant battle. Among the huge range of systems that are vulnerable, the one closest to everyone’s heart is their personal data. Almost every week, the news carries a story of we hear about a major business being hacked and customers’ credit card and other details being stolen, and then sold. The famous Adobe hack involved 38 million customers; the Target attack resulted in the theft of credit card details of 40 million customers; and more recently, personal data of 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers was compromised along with credit card details of about 90,000 customers. Read More  

The e-SIM is coming, and service providers need to make sure their BSS/OSS can handle instant changes to mobile plans, number porting and keeping track of the entire number management lifecycle. Traditional SIM cards are critical components of smartphones, containing information such as subscriber services, as well as data used to identify and authenticate devices onto the mobile network. Read More      

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