Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast

Vicky Sleight, TM Forum's Global Director of Human Factor and D&I, discusses why diversity & inclusion is of strategic importance for the telecoms industry and shares news of upcoming initiatives to facilitate and benchmark D&I.

5G offers communication service providers (CSP) the possibility to develop new business lines. But which strategies and services are likely to deliver the revenue growth that has proven so elusive in recent years? Mark Newman, chief analyst, TM Forum and Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum are undertaking extensive research to find some answers for an upcoming report Mapping the Path to Telco...

This episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, is all about how Open APIs save telcos time and money. Host Liz Coyne, TM Forum's CTO, George Glass, and MEF's CTO Pascal Menezes discuss the two industry association's joint efforts to align their APIs per the request of their largest telco members. TM Forum announced the collaboration as part of its Digital Transformation World Series event happeni...

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's AI and customer experience VP, Aaron Boasman-Patel, talks about how telcos can keep their AI in check at speed and scale -- especially when something goes wrong. He also talks about how collaboration projects inside TM Forum are helping to solve AI challenges with a new API suite, AI check lists and more.

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss the partnership of Orange and Google and their thoughts around public cloud, edge computing and 5G. They also chat about telco Q1 2020 earnings and even talk about Trump taking on TikTok and Microsoft's interest in owning the social media platform's US business. 

In this episode of Quick Talk, host Liz Coyne talks to Vicky Sleight who heads up TM Forum's new Diversity and Inclusion Council and runs collaboration projects focused on Diversity and Inclusion specifically. Vicky not only talks about how diversity and inclusion can accelerate business transformation, but also discusses the difficult role of today's Chief Diversity Officers and offers perspectiv...

In this episode of Quick Talk, Liz Coyne talks to Ros Singleton, chair of the advisory board of UK5G . UK5G is the UK's national innovation network dedicated to the promotion of research, collaboration and the industrial application of 5G in the UK. TM Forum is one of the core delivery partners alongside Cambridge Wireless and Knowledge Transfer Network. As the organization's mission is to ensure...

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, I talked to Bruno Chomel, Chief Information Officer at Orange Poland about how the operator transformed its IT systems from legacy solutions to software, rolled out a new platform called Orange Flex that lets its customers change their services via an app, and the challenges the company faced when doing the transformation. Bruno will also be passi...

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, I talked to Lester Thomas, Chief IT Systems Architect at Vodafone and TM Forum's Chief Technology Officer George Glass about how operators can cut cost while monetizing their 5G investments – especially considering the current economic climate.  One way of accomplishing both is by utilizing an Open Digital Architecture, a blueprint for modular, cl...

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne asks TM Forum's chief digital officer, John Gillam, what telecom industry collaboration is good for -- if anything. Spoiler alert: it is. Find out more on our latest episode.

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss Rakuten Mobile's 5G deployment delay due to COVID-19, the impact of US-China relations on Huawei, and taking mobile broadband pricing for granted. 

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss the merger of 02 and Virgin Media, and Microsoft's acquisition of Metaswitch. We cover what the mergers mean for customer experience and the telecom industry at large, and what's ahead for mergers in uncertain times.

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss the spikes in data usage around the globe, and how telcos need to move fast to monetize them.