The Latest in AI Capabilities in OSS/BSS

The OSS/BSS vendor landscape just crossed another threshold.

The Passionate About OSS Blue Book OSS/BSS Vendor Directory has now grown to over 750 listings, giving buyers and sellers one of the most comprehensive views of the telecom software ecosystem available today.

But this milestone alone isn’t the only part today’s story.

We’ve just introduced a new field within every listing that allows vendors to describe their latest AI and ML initiatives.

It aims to capture actual capabilities, use-cases and deployment momentum.

Why does this matter?

Clearly AI is the most discussed shift in telecom operations since, well, probably since OSS and BSS first came into existence.

Yet the buyers I speak with globally each day are inevitably excited (by the possibilities) but also skeptical about whether there are actually any real innovations out there amongst the hype and noise.

Everyone says they have AI. Far fewer can articulate where it creates durable operational advantage for their clients.

This new dataset aims to overcome that by bringing focus.

If you’ve already claimed your company listing on our vendor directory, log back in and you’ll see the new field waiting for you. A small update on your side materially improves how accurately the market understands your positioning.

If your listing hasn’t been claimed yet, now is an excellent moment to do so. The directory already contains seed data prepared by our team of researchers, but the strongest market narratives are always vendor-authored.

And if you simply want a clearer picture of the vendors shaping modern telecom stacks, it’s worth spending time exploring the directory.

Many exceptional companies don’t get the attention they deserve. The PAOSS Blue Book OSS/BSS Vendor Directory aims to shine a spotlight on them all.

Looking ahead, the intelligence gathered via this new field will directly inform our next major market report examining AI and ML capabilities across the telco software landscape.

This whitepaper will be similar in nature to our 100-page “AIOps of the Future” report.

The goal is simple: identify and highlight who is innovating, re-imagining and building enduring solutions rather than layering AI as a wrapper.

Explore, create or update your listing here:
https://passionateaboutoss.com/directory

See the AIOps of the Future report here:
https://passionateaboutoss.com/product/aiops

February 11, 2026
Ryan

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