Speaking
 Dror Bin, General Manager, Comverse Messaging |
PIM - The Future of Messaging Panel: How Will Messaging Converge? Wednesday, February 13, from 16:15 -17:45. No question - SMS has been the killer messaging app for the mobile industry. Despite its success, it has become popular to predict its decline. Although this prophecy has proven false, there are true threats. Now operators need to leverage SMS correctly as a catalyst towards the evolution to converged messaging. The chief threat comes from the Internet that allows users to download clients, enabling them to use their mobile devices for Instant Messaging (IM). The client user experience offers a viable alternative to SMS and can answer many, perhaps all of a user's messaging needs. And since IM may be provided for free, both the client and the messages, this is a serious threat. However a converged messaging experience gives operators the ability to combine the popularity of SMS with the improved user experience with the impulsivity, emoticons, presence and personalization of MIM. With the versatility of converged messaging, operators can again rely on revenue streams from messaging. |
 Howard Woolf, President, Converged Billing Solution Group |
Making Billing Projects Pay on Time Tuesday, February 12, at 13:00 in Telecom TV studio in Hall 7 Comverse will be hosting a billing panel in Telecom TV studio in Hall 7. Integrating a new billing system, as with any IT project, is fraught with difficulty and risk. The only certainty is that the faster the project is completed, the faster the company will be winning extra revenue. Put simply: time is money. Which is why project acceleration is always a worthwhile approach to consider for billing projects. This panel will debate billing project acceleration strategies, including the use of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) approaches; a structured implementation methodology, and the importance of collaboration. If you are at the approach stage of a billing project you can’t afford to miss this panel discussion. You are welcome to come and watch the live recording and watch it on the telecom TV screens around the conference |