Information Technology

This report provides detailed solution supplier profiles for the billing market leaders. It also provides profile summaries for all of the identified billing suppliers within the global end-to-end billing market.

North America’s wireless market ended the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with an estimated 368.7 million subscribers, an increase of 14.6 million subscribers from 3Q2014, for a 4.1% Year-over-Year (YoY) increase. Revenue for the market increased by $2.5 billion YoY, to end the quarter with $66.0 billion.

This Report defines the key business drivers and market trends relative to end-to-end billing, and those specifically for mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, policy, interconnect & settlement, and partner management.

This report reveals the high level findings from Stratecast | Frost & Sullivans 2015 Big Data & Analytics Market Survey. It offers insight and encouragement to enterprises that have yet to embark on their BDA journey, and to the vendors of BDA solutions who continue to enhance their products and services in order to facilitate successful deploymen...

North Americas primary line voice market ended third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with an estimated 84.5 million access line and VoIP (Voice over IP) subscribers. VoIP services are generating the only growth, as providers continue to shift consumers away from access line services.

North Americas video market ended the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with an estimated 112.4 million subscribers; a decrease of 1.4 million subscribers when compared to the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). More than half of those subscribers (54.0%) come from cable providers, while the other half come from IPTV (14.0%) and satellite (32.0%) providers.

This report examines some of the key changes to the assurance market, including: --The blending of test and operations environments --Analytics as a staple of service assurance solutions --Organization-wide access to customer and network intelligence --The recombination of user-plane and control-plane data for customer experience visibility -...

This report focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, and follows an earlier report on the future of work. See Intellectual Property Workers: The Impact on Network Operators, (SPIE 2015-11) March 2015. In particular, it explores why exercises in innovation that are mandated by executive leadership are doomed to failure; and why designi...

Although IoT is still coming into focus for many, it already connects more than nine billion devices worldwide; over the next five years, that number is expected to grow to between 20 billion and 50 billion devices. In 2025, IoT is expected to create between $4 trillion to $11 trillion in economic benefits globally. IoT is a logistical and economic...