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May 2015

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ITW Leads the Way Helping Wholesalers Identify New Revenue Streams

May 26, 2015

A few weeks ago I attended International Telecoms Week (ITW), an annual gathering of the global wholesale telecommunications community. This is definitely a show in transition since its core customer base, telecom wholesalers, are stressed out.  That is, voice wholesale minutes are now intensely competitive—and even potentially declining—due to a slowdown in growth. As a result, voice wholesalers are trying to figure out how to address this issue in order to continue thriving. 

Advancing Texting for the Contact Center

May 19, 2015

Last week, we explored texting within the contact center realm.  As texting becomes more prevalent in the contact center, there will be a lot of interesting use cases for expanding text as a customer service avenue.  These use cases will be similar to many years ago when the “call” center transformed into a “contact” center due to customer interactions taking place over the Web.  In other words, it’s the story of the mobile on-ramp to the Internet.

Texting and the Contact Center

May 12, 2015


I’ve periodically written about the changing contact center, from speech analytics to WebRTC, multiple times. Another interesting trend emerging is the use of text messaging within the contact center. It is a bit of an old-school method, but text is an efficient and direct way to deliver information to customers. In fact, a widely quoted statistic from a 2014 Harris Poll survey indicates that 64 percent of consumers with texting capabilities would prefer to use texting over voice as a customer service channel.


May 5, 2015


An IP Packet exchange (IPX) is a private managed network, defined by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), over which service providers can offer network connectivity and service interworking on a commercial and competitive basis between not only mobile operators, but also fixed and converged service providers, cloud operators and application service providers.

A multilateral IP service hubbing arrangement enables a service provider to connect to multiple termination providers through one single connection between, facilitated by an IPX operator. What that effectively allows the service provider to do is to deliver end-to-end services to its customers without the need to establish individual bilateral connections and agreements with each of the hundreds of fixed and mobile operators around the globe. However, bilateral arrangements are also supported through an IPX, in case that particular interconnection model makes the best sense. 


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