By Lucas Skoczkowski

The concept of performing real-time mobile financial transactions is clearly becoming increasingly acceptable. In fact, there is a latent and growing demand for mobile money services in emerging markets where financial infrastructure is not readily accessible. The ability to transfer funds via a mobile phone in ‘under-banked' regions means that people can avoid many hours of travel between remote villages in order to pay bills or collect wages..

By Vince Lesch

With a plethora of systems in the network, it is increasingly difficult for operators to manage performance data from individual systems to get an end-to-end view of QoS and subscriber experience. The preferred approach requires a network-wide monitoring system to collect signaling information and generate accurate performance indicators..