Pssst, wanna buy a new BSS?

One of the challenges I face in my role at the TM Forum is keeping abreast of all the innovation and advancement of Business Support Systems, especially around billing and customer care. With the acceptance and adoption of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) the move...

Banking via Mobiles in Africa

The so-called ‘mattress to mobile’ revolution, whereby Africans are moving from the habit of keeping under the bed what small sums of physical cash they have and to the use of cellphone-based systems able to deal in transfers of virtual money.  Read...

Africa, telecommunications next frontier?

It is a little known fact that one of the world’s earliest implementations of a pre-paid mobile platform was in South Africa in the early 90’s.  Its introduction spawned a mobile telecommunications growth that rivaled those currently being experienced in countries...