OSS News Review

Timely OSS industry news since 2002.

Home Archives for oss

Tier 1 North American Wireless Operator Selects Openet for Apple iPad

Posted on Written by

Openet, a leading provider of Transactional Intelligence for the world’s largest and most innovative network service providers, today announces that a Tier 1 North American wireless operator has successfully deployed a comprehensive solution set that enables the operator to monetize the market-leading tablet device, Apple’s iPad. With the Subscriber Initiated Provisioning and Service Pass solutions the operator is able to sell ad-hoc and recurring data plans to iPad customers, enabling subscriber initiated provisioning of data access by volume of data usage and duration; thus meeting demand for flexible, personalized service offerings. [Read more…]

Comarch Releases New White Paper on Next Generation OSS BSS

Posted on Written by

On today’s cable market, there is an ongoing race among operators towards the valued goal of becoming an MSO (Multi-Service Operator). Although TV services still remain the main and most stable revenue stream, significant income growth originates from high-speed Internet and telephony services, and the importance of these will continue to increase. [Read more…]

BT and OSS CAD Scoop TM Forum Excellence Award

Posted on Written by

Ontology Systems has announced that OSS/CAD, the groundbreaking application that uses semantics to unify OSS/BSS and infrastructure, was central to BT’s winning entry in this year’s prestigious TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010. BT’s entry, “Semantic Toolset to Optimise Business Transformations”, scooped the Innovation Award. [Read more…]

TM Forum’s Cloud Services Initiative names Sean Kelley Chairman of Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council

Posted on Written by

TM Forum announced today that Sean Kelley, Deutsche Bank’s Global CIO for Deutsche Asset Management (the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank AG) and Head of the Bank’s Platform Services Group, has taken a leading role within the Forum’s cloud services initiatives by becoming chairman of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC). Sean’s commitment to the ECLC is indicative of the value of TM Forum’s cloud services initiatives for the global enterprise and communications IT industries. [Read more…]

MVNOs to take off in Latin America as mobile markets mature

Posted on Written by

Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) are set to take off in Latin America as mobile markets mature, new regulations come into force and more network operators open to MVNOs to fuel growth. “MVNO subscriptions in Latin America will grow at a CAGR of 28% to 6.6 million by 2013,” says Júlio Püschel, senior analyst and head of mobile operator strategy at Informa Telecoms & Media. [Read more…]

TelstraClear extends Clarity contract

Posted on Written by

Clarity, a leading provider of Unified Telecommunications Operational Management solutions, has told OSS News Review that its contract with TelstraClear has been extended for another year, as the New Zealand wholesaler implements additional services through the newly launched Clarity Marketplace. [Read more…]

Next Generation Network OSS BSS Market and Forecast 2010-2015 Now Available

Posted on Written by

ReportsandReports will soon carry their Next Generation Network OSS/BSS Market and Forecast 2010-2015 Market Research Report in its Store. Next Generation Networks (NGN) promises a high quality end-user experience. Telecommunications service providers expect the NGN framework to provide them with tools that would ensure customer loyalty. However, the path towards achieving the ideal NGN is fraught with formidable challenges. The most critical challenge confronting operators is optimizing their OSS and BSS platforms, systems, and processes. [Read more…]

cVidya Wins Price Plan Analytics Project for Tier 1 Mobile Operator in Western Europe

Posted on Written by

cVidya Networks, a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, has recently won a Price Plan optimization project for a Tier 1 mobile operator in Europe. As part of the project cVidya will deploy BusinessView®, a Margin Analytics solution, which is part of their IRIS® suite. [Read more…]

TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010 Winners Announced

Posted on Written by

Amdocs, BT, Huawei and STC (Saudi Telecom) have scooped this year’s prestigious Excellence Awards 2010, it was announced today. Having attracted a record number of entries from leading communications service providers, suppliers and systems integrators across four award categories, the winners were chosen by a combination of a judging panel of impartial industry experts and an open member vote. [Read more…]

MACH Helps Mobile Operators Navigate Latest EU Regulations

Posted on Written by

MACH, a leading provider of hub-based mobile communications exchange solutions, has launched a package of solutions, called EU Pack, designed to help mobile network operators offset the negative impact of forthcoming EU regulations on roaming revenues. EU Pack comprises Data Fuse, the company’s ‘Anti-Bill Shock’ prevention solution, and Retail Roaming Marketing which is designed to stimulate usage through customised retail offers using its Re-pricing solution. [Read more…]

OSS BSS Data Misalignment Is Causing Havoc For CSPs

Posted on Written by

Ontology Systems has recently announced the results of research carried out in April this year by Telesperience, the independent telecom and IT analysts. Data misalignment has long been recognized as a chronic problem for CSPs running large OSS/BSS infrastructure. Telesperience’s research reveals just how widespread a problem it is and how difficult it is to solve. [Read more…]

YTL Communications protects against Fraud with Subex’s ROC Fraud Management

Posted on Written by

Subex Limited, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) for CSPs (Communications Service Providers), has been selected by YTL Communications, the communications arm of the Malaysian-based infrastructure conglomerate, YTL Corporation, to implement its leading fraud management solution, ROC FM (ROC Fraud Management). [Read more…]

Clarity launches Clarity 11

Posted on Written by

Clarity, the leading provider of Unified Telecommunications Operational Management solutions, has released Clarity 11. The product suite incorporates new and enhanced capabilities for service providers to simplify their operations and improve service quality whilst removing cost, risk and time incurred for crucial business processes. [Read more…]

Management World 2010 Delivers World’s Top Service Providers

Posted on Written by

TM Forum today confirmed its flagship annual conference, Management World 2010, is on course for continued success, with attendance having grown some 23% ahead of 2009 with more than 3,000 attendees planning to attend. Over 55% of attendees represent C-level executives and decision-making senior managers. [Read more…]

Network Norway Chooses Volubill for Bill Shock Management

Posted on Written by

Volubill, the leading provider of real-time policy and charging solutions, today announced that Network Norway has chosen to implement Volubill’s standards based PCRF solution – CONTROL-IT – to comply with the European Union’s (EU) new Bill Shock data roaming regulations. Volubill’s solution will be tightly integrated with Network Norway’s existing network environment based on Cisco GGSN and CSG2 technology. The deployment with Network Norway builds on a successful year for Volubill in which the company has already seen five new deployments of their charging and policy control products. [Read more…]