Released: Thursday, May 1, 2014
As a telecommunications service provider, you face an increasingly challenging business environment. Revenue from traditional sources such as voice and messaging continues to decline. Regulatory action, designed to foster competition, is driving prices down. Over-the-top providers are attracting growing numbers of subscribers, and consuming significant bandwidth on your network. The advent of smartphones is causing traffic rates to grow at a staggering rate. You are being forced to spend more money provisioning and operating your network to carry all this new traffic, much of which brings you no more revenue, at a time when your top line is under pressure. What can be done to address these challenges? In this paper we explore a couple of key use cases for Big Data, and give some guidance on how to exploit the opportunities the latest Big Data technologies bring.
