Salesforce Uses Surrogate to Tempt Telecoms

The pair hopes to cash in on the expectation that there'll be 7.2 billion mobile devices out there by 2015 and that more than two-thirds of network traffic will be consumed by video.

Zuora calls its new cloud stuff Zuora for Communications and says it'll let SPs price, quote and take orders on the front end and manage and monetize subscribers on the back end for any type of services from broadband, Wi-Fi, 4G, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and unified communications on wireless devices just as the iPhone, iPad and Android.

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