Mobile World Congress 2022 took place from the 28th of February till the 3rd of March in Barcelona, with the halls of the enormous Fira Gran Via exhibition centre filled…
Mahwish IlyasApril 19, 2022
The biggest mobile tech event finally happened after last year’s interval, and as promised, it was an exciting period attended by leaders of the tech world. Gadget announcements and other…
Mahwish IlyasJuly 12, 2021
Customer satisfaction survey is a tool widely used by companies across the globe to understand how the product, service, and the entire experience provided by them either falls short, meets,…
Mahwish IlyasJune 22, 2021
Embracing digital solutions builds greater resilience for telecoms, especially in the face of rapidly changing economic and market conditions like COVID-19 pandemic. Digitization also gives telcos a leg up on…
Mahwish IlyasJune 8, 2021
In the mobile telecom industry, optimizing revenue growth continues to be a key success factor. Mobile operators face a range of macroeconomic and structural challenges that are unique to their…
Mahwish IlyasOctober 9, 2020
In the world of increased competition and ever-evolving consumer demands, telecom operators are on a constant journey to optimize go to market strategies to accelerate revenue growth. The telecom industry…
Mahwish IlyasOctober 2, 2020
The mobile markets in many developing regions are primarily prepaid; in fact, around 99% of the mobile markets in Africa consists of prepaid subscribers. Within these regions, the most traditional…
Mahwish IlyasOctober 1, 2020
Today, telecom operators sell their products and services via a range of touchpoints. These include call centers, retail outlets, franchises, distributors, or street resellers as well as through self-service websites.…
Mahwish IlyasJune 30, 2020
Digital voucher distributors are positioned between end-users and telecom operators. Success is dependent on optimizing sales and adding value for both the telecom operator and the agent interacting with the…
Mahwish IlyasMay 15, 2020
One of the critical success factors for modern telecom operators is the ability to maximize short term revenue while taking into account longer-term strategic objectives. Optimizing digital voucher distribution is…
Mahwish IlyasMay 15, 2020
At Seamless Distribution Systems (SDS), we understand the complexities of the telecom industry in the age of digital transformation and the challenges that affect the profitability and growth of telecom…
Mahwish IlyasNovember 26, 2018
In the early 2000s, the growth of the mobile industry stimulated operators to devise a mechanism for easy machine-to-machine communications to perform tasks that require a device to query the…
Mahwish IlyasSeptember 19, 2018
With the advent of digitalization, telecom operators started to transform the way they do business. Embracing the changes, they adopted different technologies to bring about financial innovation, changed their business…
Mahwish IlyasJuly 3, 2018
Telecom Operators face immense competition worldwide, making it difficult for them to retain existing customers. For this purpose, they have to keep a close check on the market trends and…
Mahwish IlyasMay 30, 2018
The advent of digital transformation not only brought about a change in the technological world, it also changed the lives of the people, how they lived, worked and interacted with…
Mahwish IlyasApril 30, 2018
These channels provide a means for the product to travel from the producer to the distributors to the stores where, finally, the resellers sell them to the end-user (subscribers of…
Mahwish IlyasApril 26, 2018
Globalization, Connectivity, Digitization and Global Economic Reforms have brought about unprecedented changes to the world. The continuous shifts in digital technology have changed the way individuals, groups and organizations behave…
Mahwish IlyasMarch 2, 2018
An omni-channel user experience is largely about meeting the customers at eye-level and accompanying them in real-time at all touch points. In today’s technology driven era, a well-connected business approach…
Mahwish IlyasFebruary 19, 2018
Digital strategies and technologies have profoundly changed how businesses and individuals work, buy and live. These technologies offer new ways to connect, collaborate, conduct business and bridge the gaps between…
Mahwish IlyasFebruary 9, 2018
Business plans are strategic and comprehensive in nature with the aim to ensure top line growth and efficient operating margins. In telecom sector, the effectiveness of business plans in terms of…
Mahwish IlyasJanuary 24, 2018
In the fast-paced technology driven market, businesses in general, and telecom operators in specific have started to focus on ensuring High Availability (HA) of the services that they offer. High…
Mahwish IlyasJanuary 17, 2018
Africa’s largest tech event has made a lasting impression with a record-breaking number of visitors, exhibitors and speakers at AfricaCom this year. Discussions spanning across the three-day conference were centered…
Mahwish IlyasDecember 27, 2017
Africa opening doors to Digital Transformation AfricaCom, Africa’s largest annual convention for telecom operators, entrepreneurs and service providers opened its doors for the 20th time on 7th November, Tuesday, welcoming…
Mahwish IlyasNovember 27, 2017
Over the years, change in the target market dynamics and increased usage of mobile phones has innovated the way service providers initially functioned. Fuelled by improved economic conditions, the last…
Mahwish IlyasNovember 14, 2017
Given the rate at which mobile connectivity is growing, it seems only natural that the way business is done will change. But how will Telco’s embrace this change and are…
Mahwish IlyasNovember 7, 2017