Railways communication networks: a big opportunity for telco solution vendors

For vendors of solutions in the telco industry, changes in railway communications networks presently represent a significant commercial opportunity. In this blog, we’ll try to explain why. Why are we talking about trains and telcos? To explain why, let’s start with a bit of history. Over the years, enterprise communications networks have always tended to […]

How to run a successful webinar

There are many sources of qualified sales leads and in recent years webinars have become one of the more popular ones. Why is this, and are they a good idea? How can you help make sure your webinar eventually results in sales pipeline success? When it comes to marketing, it could be argued that webinars […]

The sun’s going down on 3G networks, and that means opportunity is knocking…

The rollout of 4G was hastened by the ability to offload (via CSFB) the complicated issue of handling voice calls onto the established world of 3G. But the fix is running out of time. Sometimes, communications industry news goes mainstream, with stories that usually concern mainly industry professionals finding their way into the national media. […]

Boom times for FTTH

Fiber is booming and the FTTH market is expanding rapidly. This presents challenges to network operators, and opportunities to solutions providers. As the first quarter of 2023 comes to an end, the booming “Fiber To The Home (FTTH) market shows continues to be robust. The research firm PointTopic[1] states that the total number of global […]

Generating high-quality leads in the network experience solutions market

The client eCS’ client is a provider of solutions that deliver real-time end-to-end subscriber-level visibility to power Service Operation Centers in the telecoms industry with a sophisticated customer analysis solution. The solution in this campaign is a cloud-native, multi-access and multi-vendor product that provides end-to-end insight into an end-customers network experience. The campaign The focus […]

Has enterprise marketing changed?

Over the past twenty years, few would dispute that marketing has changed. Digitisation has revolutionised a landscape in which, two decades ago, direct mail was probably the dominant means of outreach and postage costs took up a significant portion of the marketing budget. Try explaining that to a marketing graduate today! Yet for all the […]

There goes the art of marketing: what should we make of Chat GPT?

You’re probably familiar with the hype by now, especially if you’re involved in the world of technology marketing and sales which, if you’re reading this blog, it’s likely that you are. What’s more open to debate is where you stand on Chat GPT, the increasingly talked-about AI technology. Do you see Chat GPT as a […]

MWC: Notes, conversations, presentations, and opportunities

MWC23: Our View

Mobile World Congress is over for another year. The eCS teams’ journey through the halls of FIRA once again gave us an interesting overview of the state of the telecoms nation. Here are our thoughts. MWC23: another year passes, another show closes, and the telecoms industry continues to evolve. On the event front, housekeeping notes […]