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July 2017

Digital Platforms and Services: Operating in the OTT...

Operators should partner with OTTs to differentiate and reduce churn, whereas equity investments could be undertaken for financial and strategic...

Over-the-top (OTT) services are considered to be online mobile applications that are typically provided by third parties through app stores and often consume significant mobile network bandwidth. With billions of users, OTT services already have huge scale and still have further growth potential....
Press Release
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
July 2017

Digital Platforms and Services: Operating in the OTT...

Operators should partner with OTTs to differentiate and reduce churn, whereas equity investments could be undertaken for financial and strategic...

Over-the-top (OTT) services are considered to be online mobile applications that are typically provided by third parties through app stores and often consume significant mobile network bandwidth. With billions of users, OTT services already have huge scale and still have further growth potential....
In the Press
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
July 2017

New report from Arthur D. Little highlights 5G...

New business models are emerging as enterprises and solution providers get ready for the next generation of mobile networks

London, 10 July 2017 – In its latest report ‘5G Deployment Models Are Crystallizing’, Arthur D. Little (ADL) examines the opportunities that exist for telecom operators to facilitate new business ecosystems enabled by the next generation of mobile networks. Promising huge increases in speed and...
Press Release
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
July 2017

SAMENA trends

Digital disruption is evident across all industries driven by changing customer preferences, new digital competitors and access to new technologies. The telecom industry is no exception to this with shrinking revenues in traditional business ; yet, new opportunities are emerging as industry...
In the Press
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
June 2017

New Mobility – Urban Mobility growth: The leading example...

Over the last decades, the Middle East has witnessed fast population growth, from 186 million people in 1990 to 323 million in 2015. Its urbanization rate has increased rapidly during the same period, from 54 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2015. Some countries in the region, such as the United...
In the Press
June 2017

Samena Trends

Middle Eastern Telcos - Where is the next efficiency frontier?

Telecom operators have a real opportunity to reduce operational costs by 30-40% whilst improving service quality and customer satisfaction.This is primarily achieved by reducing / eliminating operational complexities accumulated during the growth phase and digitalizing the operations. Download...
Press Release
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
June 2017

Samena Trends June 2017

Middle Eastern Telcos - Where is the next efficiency frontier?

Telecom operators have a real opportunity to reduce operational costs by 30-40% whilst improving service quality and customer satisfaction.This is primarily achieved by reducing / eliminating operational complexities accumulated during the growth phase and digitalizing the operations. Download...
In the Press
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
May 2017

Partnering to address the rising cost of clinical trials

The cost of the clinical trial process today is upwards of $100mn. So how can drug developers with robust R&D pipelines but a limited operating budget make the most of their portfolios and get as many promising new therapies to market in the narrow window before patents expire?In a word,...
In the Press
Healthcare & life sciences
May 2017

New funding models to progress low-priority clinical trials

The cost of funding a clinical trial today can run biopharma companies upwards of $100mn, and that does not even begin to consider the costs of marketing and distribution necessary for a new life enhancing therapy to reach patients’ hands.Global pharma businesses that spent the last decade building...
In the Press
Healthcare & life sciences
May 2017

E-Learning: Facilitating Workplace Training

E-learning leverages slide shows, videos, gamification and simulation to create interactive discussions and knowledge sharing in digital format. It is a quick and flexible way to train a large number of employees, independent of physical location and time, and create attractive opportunities to...
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Industrial goods & services