“We’re just going to have more and more traffic, and more and more congestion. Regardless of whether we decide to go forward with these projects or not, one way or the other, we will pay.”
Jacob Snow
Okay, so your OSS/BSS can’t really protect you from getting the flu, but perhaps it can ease congestion (of your network, rather than your nose).
Telecommunications congestion tends to follow typical patterns with major differences between peaks and troughs. As an essential service, it’s important for carrier networks to be designed for peak congestion in mind.
But what if you could flatten the congestion curve? Would it allow you to reduce infrastructure or gain more subscribers before network uplift / expansion?
Carriers the world over have offered reduced rates for using their services during off-peak periods. But rather than offering a static flat-rate pricing model will carriers, particularly wholesale carriers, see network capacity as an un-used asset to make available to customers using dynamic price/service models, just as airlines, hotels and other industries have with their un-used capacity? If they do, can current OSS and BSS handle such flexibility?
Over the years, I’ve often referred to The Corkscrew Analogy or Momentum Spiral to describe a mindset of incremental improvement that’s needed to keep an
We’ve embarked on a journey of trying to plan for the future of OSS/BSS, not by predicting the future, but by seeking ways to be
As discussed in the previous article, “Future Scenario Planning: Have you given up on doing an OSS transformation? (part 1)” part of the fun of
Earlier in the week, a friend mentioned he was reading “Alchemy” by Rory Sutherland. It’s not an OSS book per se, but does provide some
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
