Meet Teddy the dancing robot #MWC15

Our camera crews are busy in Barcelona, covering all the excitement from Huawei's massive 7000sqm exhibit. Here's the highlight video of day one - but the best bit is Teddy the robot - a collaboration with Softbank. Enjoy!

View all the footage on the playlist on Total Telecom

10 reasons why is network management such a big issue?

We asked this question to participants at last weeks Network Management Show - here's they're responses.


To watch more video's from the Network Management Show, visit our YouTube playlist

Top reasons why network management matters:

1. Customer Satisfaction: QoS / QoE
2. Threat Protection / security
3. Prevent monetary loss and brand damage
4. The network runs operators business

What are the real requirements for IPX

IP eXchange or IPX is one of the hot topics today and will be the subject of a 1 day Total Telecom conference on the 10 October.

But what do customers really think about IPX? Our partners at Hot Telecom have put together a report based on interviews with 70 customers to give you some insight.

The report covers:

• Define the current status of service providers' IP migration as a whole
• Validate what service providers understand of IPX and how they define it
• Identify the services and features customers really need and want
• Determine what is important for customers when choosing their IPX providers
• Understand what are the main factors delaying the use of IPX for operators not already using it and what makes migration difficult
• Define the differences in service providers' opinions and needs based on their region of operation and core service offering

So if you are serious about the IPX opportunity, buy the report and come along to the Total Telecom IPX Summit

Should you care about IPX

At Total Telecom we clearly care about IPX, that's why we are launching The IPX Summit in October, but should you?

We think you should, so watch this video interview with Isabelle Paradis of Hot Telecom to see why.


To find out more about the IPX Summit visit www.totaltele.com/IPXSummit 

Addressing the mobile video tsunami

“With the arrival of LTE in the UK, 2013 will be the critical year for operators to address the ‘mobile video tsunami’ before it’s too late.” This was a comment from Matt Stagg, Senior Manager of Network Strategy, Architecture and Design, at EE when he spoke to IPTV news.

Matt will be pressing the issue further when he leads the mobile video breakfast that kicks off July's Network Management Show, and you can join the debate by registering (for free) HERE

Certainly the activity under the hashtag #mobilevideo on Twitter suggests it is something that should be front of mind...

Tweets about "#mobilevideo"

REGISTER TO ATTEND THE MOBILE VIDEO BREAKFAST

Spotlight on video

Video is currently front of mind for the telecoms industry, here's a selection of stories that show why:

• Blinkx pretax profit surge to $16.7 million from $2 million. 
•  Twitter, ESPN expand Web video partnership 
•  Baidu acquires PPStream online video business for $370m

These are just a view of the annoucements helping drive uptake of mobile video. Operators have to be ready to cope. Are you ready to deal with video comprising 75% of data traffic?


If this worries you, join the mobile video breakfast at the Network Management Show

11 great #telecom video's from 2012

The Total Telecom video channel, Total TeleVision is stuffed full of fantastic interviews, so we've picked out 11 of the best, produced in 2012 that you really should watch.


Addressing the opportunities in Asia: Jim Clarke - Telstra Global

Building the trust of your customers: Don Peppers - Founding Partner, Peppers & Rogers Group

Europe has to change: Luigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman, ETNO

OTT is good for operators: Andreas Bernstrom is CEO of Rebtel

Telco's need to act more like internet companies - Ben Atherton, CEO, Samba Mobile

The regulatory climate in 2012 - Georg Serentschy, Chair 2012, BEREC

The switch is on - are you keeping up: Steve Gleave - VP Marketing, Metaswitch

The Top 500 Telecom Brands - David Haigh, Brand Finance

Video is everything: Storing & distributing content Lucy Dimes of Alcatel-Lucent

What do 'you' mean by customer experience - Johan Langer of Ericsson spoke to Brian Dolby at Total Telecom World

Why is Zain Jordan the "Best Place to Work" - Ahmad Al Hanandeh - CEO

Is the answer to Network Management a VERY big screen? #NMS13

Early responses to our Network Management Survey suggests that amongst the main concerns is the need to use multiple tools for monitoring.

But perhaps Bharti Airtel have the answer. Their new Nokia Siemens Networks’ dashboard solution is monitored via a 3600-square-foot video wall - but there again they are looking at mobile services for over 250 million people!

Let us know what your network management issues are by completing our SURVEY and to discover more about the solutions and issues in this important sector, get involved in our Network Management Show

5 #Telecom Insights You Might Have Missed

Total Telecom have recently added a number of new items to our white papers section. They aren't all traditional documents, but all are great forms of free insight into specific parts of the telecom industry.

Why not check out:

• Understand the Business of Telecoms - a free eBook produced by Total Telecom, supporting our forthcoming Finance Summit

• Delivering Mobile Video Collaboration to a Flexible Workforce - a complimentary webcast examining how organisations of all types need to adopt mobile video technologies as part of an extensive communication strategy.

• Analytics, transformation and networks management: Telecoms Software Perspectives 2012 - a white paper from Analysys Mason looking at  key issues in the telecoms software industry that will be important to service providers and vendors alike during the next 12 months.

• Solving the test automation puzzle – do you have all the pieces you need? - an informative webcast sponsored by Qualisystems examining  how test automation offers benefits in terms of increased testing efficiency, accuracy and throughput, but also creates challenges.

• IT Transformation Best Practices In the Communications Industry: an Oracle sponsored case study featuring KT from Korea.

All of these are free for the users, simply click on the link above, or for even more choice visit www.totaltele.com/whitepapers 

A more balanced view of mobile issues #TTWW12

Total Telecom Wireless World is less than three weeks away and is not to be missed if you want a more balanced view of the key issues that are changing the industry forever. In one corner we bring together the true disrupters, Google leading the pack of OTT players, whilst in the other we have the traditional telcos who are reinventing the way mobile business is done.

Book your seat at Wireless World by the 25 May and save £75 on your ticket.

TEN THINGS YOU WILL LEARN:

1. What did China Telecom learn launching an MVNO 
2. Who is tomorrows consumer - Googles View
3. How does the Internet of Things impact operators
4. How will networks evolve in the future
5. What services will drive the mass market take up of 4G?
6. How can operators capitalise on mobile video
7. Where are the emerging market opportunities
8. How is (BYOD) changing the relationship with the user
9. How can businesses offset increasing complexity in IT
10. Which wireless technologies are going to win

Don't miss your chance to join leading global telecom operators, OTT players, analysts, commentators and more as we debate the catalysts for this change in the Wireless World...

BOOK TODAY www.totaltele.com/wireless 

Top 10 telecom video interviews of 2011

What have people in the #telecom industry been watching over the last 6-months? Here's the Top 10 executive interviews from Total TeleVision:

1. Stefaan Vanhastel - Alcatel Lucent: 10G GPON
2. Joe Weinman - HP - Is cloud a real telco opportunity?
3. Interview: Jorgen Nilsson - Acision 
4. Ruth Pickering: BT Wholesale at Carriers World 2011
5. Mike Millegan,President - Global Wholesale, Verizon
6. Bubble: Jim O'Neil - MWC 2011
7. Rakesh Bhasin, CEO of Colt
8. Harry Koiter, SeaChange at IBC 2011
9. Interview: Jay Patel - IMImobile
10.Interview: Mirko Voltolini, Director Network Design & Architecture, Colt Technology Services

In 2011 we've been across the world, from North America to Singapore, and from India to the Arctic Circle, and 2012 promises to be no quieter. We'll be at all the major events including Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, TM Forum in Dublin and CommunicAsia in Singapore, so make sure you watch out for our cameras!


But first stop for 2012 will be Film Day on the 2 February, the perfect opportunity to create your pre-Mobile World Congress video collateral. Find out more here...

http://www.totaltele.com/show.aspx?i=926

Check out all the video on the Total TeleVision channel

What is mHealth

Found a nice video via the mHealth Alliance with loads of explanations as to what mHealth is. If any of these sound interesting and a good opportunity for you, then join Total Telecom at our mHealth breakfast to hear from Telefonica and Orange and to join in the discussions.

So what is mHealth? Here's some of the key words: Connections, personalised, in-pocket, intervention, connectivity, telemedicine, SMS, video, emotion, platform, access, disruptive, low cost, inclusive, on-the-go, cellphone, revolution, convergence, diagnosis, non-traditional, improved health...