We look at reasons why the costs of building fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) remain high compared to other technology investments.
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Streaming Video Credential Sharing: How Service Providers Can Identify and Stop Unwanted Password Sharing
Up until now, consumers have shared their account passwords to streaming video services with little or no impunity. That era may soon be over, with Pay TV and OTT markets facing increasing levels of competition and a building pressure to retain revenues. Streaming video service providers should reconsider policies on credential sharing in 2018, both to convert non-subscribers to paid accounts and to reduce unnecessary operational and legal costs.
Continue readingWin-Back Opportunity: 3 Steps for Success for the Enterprise Market
Enterprise, or business customer, churn can significantly impact a service provider’s business. Rather than trying to gain new customers to make up for this lost revenue, service providers can employ effective “Win-Back” programs to lure customers back to their business. Here are three steps to create an effective Win-Back strategy.
Continue readingContentArmor – ContentArmor is the First Watermark Vendor to Complete Cartesian’s Robustness Tests
Via ContentArmor – 9 Jan 2018 – ContentArmor is announcing that its video watermarking solution is the first one to complete Cartesian’s robustness evaluation. Cartesian’s thorough set of robustness tests has been defined in collaboration with content owners including major studios to benchmark watermarking solutions against common practices of pirates…
Continue readingITProPortal – Skills gaps and culture clashes: Why people problems are holding back virtual network deployments
Via ITProPortal – 4 Jan 2018 – Network virtualization is currently garnering plenty of interest and excitement as the future for the communications sector, with Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) being seen as key to tackling a range of issues…
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