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Practically all of the global service providers participating in a Service Broker Forum event said they were seriously considering service brokers as a key part of their ongoing network transformation strategy. Commenting on poll results from the event, TMCnet’s Stefanie Mosca explained: “The ability to leverage a service broker to easily and efficiently introduce service [...]

Network limitations prevent many service providers from offering additional applications or services to a prepaid customer – they can offer a simple prepaid voice service, and that’s it. Prepaid customers of course want new and different prepaid services, and if their service provider can’t offer them, they’ll find one who can. Fortunately, a new approach [...]

I’d like to try and lay out the problem that is likely faced by a  service provider looking to launch new prepaid services. Marketing wants to roll out new prepaid communications services, especially considering the recent estimate that by 2015, 77% of subscribers will be prepaid. But all too often, the network people say it’s not possible. [...]

When thinking about prepaid, some service providers still automatically focus on voice and SMS services. But with the ability to offer innovative communication applications such as personal call manager and wallet service, or social media packages, prepaid today also means data plans and better devices. Indeed, today’s prepaid market offers service providers the opportunity to [...]