Mobile (cellular) networks represent a fast evolving research field that take advantages of recent technological advances such as Big Data and distributed computing to provide extensive network monitoring for network operation planning and management purposes. Challenges related to making use of the large volume of streaming data generated by mobile networks include extracting relevant elements within massive amounts of signals possibly spread across different sources (data bases), reducing dimensionality, summarizing dynamic information in a comprehensible way and displaying it for interpretation purposes. The adequate network modeling provides both statistical data of network performance and important networking QoS related insights. Comprehensible mobile network information is needed that uncovers the role of each attribute and variable. To harness the complexity of mobile network data and to extract relevant information a dedicated distributed computing platforms and Big Data frameworks are needed, able to discover and deal with the inherent properties and complexities of these datasets. Smart network monitoring service plays a central role here.