Telecoms.com

The Sunrise has got its Red Hat on

Swiss MNO Sunrise has picked open-source software specialist Red Hat to build a hybrid cloud-ready platform, to make sure it’s nice and agile.

• 19 Aug 2020

Matrixx scores Dish 5G BSS deal

Disruptive US BSS vendor Matrixx has managed to jump aboard the Dish train after its converged charging system (CCS) was chosen to monetize its greenfield 5G network.

• 18 Aug 2020

Peace breaks out as Amdocs acquires Openet for €180 million

Two years after they concluded their bitterly fought litigation, telecoms software firm Amdocs has buried the hatchet with BSS vendor Openet by buying it.

• 24 Jul 2020

European MVNO group Lebara picks Openet cloud charging platform

Irish BSS vendor Openet has chalked up a nice win with MVNO Lebara to sort out its charging systems in five European countries, including the UK.

• 29 Jun 2020

TM Forum gets a bunch of operators to sign up to its Open Digital Architecture

BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Telenor are among 11 new signatories to a scheme designed to cloudify BSS and OSS and provide standardized, open software components.

• 18 Jun 2020

Nokia finally gets some Chinese 5G action, celebrates with Broadcom collaboration

Much has been made of Nokia’s apparent exclusion from the Chinese 5G market, but a new deal with China Unicom indicates such reports may have been an exaggeration.

• 15 Jun 2020

Mavenir and Altiostar join forces to exploit the US OpenRAN opportunity

The US government keeps promising to chuck money at OpenRAN technology, so it makes sense for companies involved to raise their game.

• 12 Jun 2020

There are billions of reasons why CSPs need to stop throwing good money after bad

A central part of operator transformation is ensuring they are awake to all opportunities and plan for the unexpected – especially when it comes to 5G.

• 08 Jun 2020

Matrixx mixes it up in Mexico

BSS vendor Matrixx scored a handy deal win with AT&T Mexico to bring its prepaid subscriber platform into the 21st century.

• 05 Jun 2020

Making Sense of the Telco Cloud

In recent years the cloudification of communication networks, or “telco cloud” has become a byword for telecom modernisation. This Telecoms.com Intelligence Monthly Briefing aims to analyse what telcos’ transition to cloud means to the stakeholders in the telecom and cloud ecosystems. Before exploring the nooks and crannies of telco cloud, however, it is worthwhile first […]

• 29 May 2020

Ericsson under pressure to sell Iconectiv operations – report

Ericsson is allegedly under pressure from activist investors to sell OSS/BSS business unit Iconectiv, a deal which could be worth more than $1.5 billion.

• 04 May 2020

Best of breed, not best of suite

Change is happening across the entire network – in the core, in the RAN and in supporting OSS and BSS.

• 16 Mar 2020

Is your legacy charging system ready to monetize 5G?

Traditional telco billing/charging systems were built for a simpler world, where services are often measured in minutes and megabytes.

• 02 Mar 2020

Huawei makes a number of bold claims at MWC replacement event

Huawei has released a string of new products at its MWC replacement event in London and claims to be number one in every field.

• 21 Feb 2020

Nokia raises its OSS game

In the build up to MWC 2020 Nokia has got one of its announcements in early, in the form of the ‘cloud-native’ Network Operations Master software.

• 03 Feb 2020

What we talk about when we talk about digital transformation

Digital transformation is one of the core buzzwords used in the telecoms industry and beyond, right up there with 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. What sets digital transformation apart from the others is the sheer number of different things it can stand for.

• 21 Jan 2020

Telecoms had a good 2019 and expects a better 2020 – survey

Our latest industry survey reveals a an optimistic outlook, largely bolstered by the launch of 5G commercial service, but also helped by innovations and progress in other quarters of the industry.

• 02 Dec 2019

Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2019

As we move towards the end of another eventful year, Telecoms.com has once again conducted its Annual Industry Survey, inviting fellow telecoms professionals to look back on 2019, and look ahead towards 2020 and beyond. In this report, we share with you the key findings of the survey as well as our analysis of them, […]

• 29 Nov 2019

Microservices-Based Cloud Native Modernization of OSS/BSS with Open Source

This article is sponsored by Red Hat Market forces and changes in subscriber needs and expectations are leading Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to transform their entire service delivery and management infrastructure. At the forefront of this transformation is the modernization of the systems that enable the management of network services, the operations support systems (OSS) […]

• 25 Nov 2019

Amdocs launches ‘future ready’ RevenueONE billing system

Telecoms software vendor Amdocs has unveiled its bid to bring billing into the 5G and cloud era, in the form of RevenueONE.

• 28 Oct 2019