In the absence of any professional body that can impose ethical standards of behavior, a lawless attitude to intellectual property continues to dominate revenue assurance.

Cox used a 'thirteen strike' process where subscribers retained their service despite repeated downloading of pirated music.

Mobile money has rapidly grown in popularity, especially in Africa. Nevertheless, there is a much more to come.

The UK's 070 number range leads to confusion, resulting in fraud. But the proposed regulatory reform does not deal with the root cause, and has undesirable side-effects.

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The participants of RAG Sydney charted the areas where risk and assurance work is succeeding, and where it needs to mature.

Taking possession of a domain name is another way to prevent online piracy.

Instead of levying a charge based on the cost of their software platform, might a B/OSS provider charge only for the actual service performed?

If a business tried to extort money by claiming you infringed their patent, would you be willing to fight them to a courtroom conclusion? Sandvine did, and won.

Government subsidies to prop up weak state-owned telcos are hurting the African telecoms market.

It is claimed that every organization has suffered at least one mobile malware attack.

Derek Canfield, TEOCO's VP of Analytics, argues that customers would be better protected and served if telcos adopt a combination of analytics and DPI to manage encrypted traffic.