Service Providers will need help...integration is difficult for service providers - bad for them - good for Sandvine's business.
“We can expect new data price plans to flood the market as data usage skyrockets with the introduction of improved tablets "and smartphones, such as the iPhone 5, BlackBerry Torch and the Nokia N series,” said Ari Banerjee, senior analyst, Heavy Reading. “Our research shows there is global consensus that integration of charging and policy management capabilities is required to monetize these new data pricing strategies. Service providers have found attempts to integrate charging and policy management by their internal IT and network departments challenging and too expensive and are now seeking pre-integrated vendor solutions.”
business should pick up, no?
read the whole story below:
https://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=212827