Ericsson deploys world's largest operator CDN for Rostelecom Rostelecom, Russia's largest telecoms operator and leader in the country's broadband and pay TV markets, has deployed the world's largest operator content delivery network (CDN) - thanks to a solution developed and integrated by Ericsson
Read More »Small companies "are uncluttered, simple informal. They thrive on passion and ridicule bureaucracy. Small companies grow on good ideas – regardless of their source. They need everyone, involve everyone, and reward or remove people based on their contribution to winning. Small companies dream big dreams and set the bar high – increments and fractions don’t interest them." Jack Welch. This is the last quote of Welch-week,…
Read More »Robi Axiata Selects NetCracker to Provide New Billing Solution for Growing Customer Base NetCracker Technology and Robi Axiata announced today that Robi has selected NetCracker’s Revenue Management solution, integrating billing, interconnect billing, and credit control, to enable new service innovation and superior responsiveness to changing customer demands. Robi Axiata is one of the three largest mobile operators in Bangladesh and supports more than 22 million subscribers.…
Read More »Zain and Ericsson launch innovative billing solution in Jordan Zain Jordan recently announced that it has selected the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Charging & Billing in One (CBIO) solution as part of the operator's ongoing efforts to provide subscribers with additional billing flexibility
Read More »Ericsson closes acquisition of TeleOSS business in Thailand Ericsson announces the completion of its acquisition of the entire business of TeleOSS Consulting Ltd. in Thailand through a business transfer agreement. "The acquired capabilities, especially in the areas of traffic and inventory management, together with Ericsson’s extensive offering in the OSS area, complement our wide range of solutions. This enables us to offer high-quality service delivery to…
Read More »"You have just got to constantly focus on innovation. And more competitors. You’ve got to constantly produce more for less through intellectual capital. Shun the incremental, and look for the quantum leap." Jack Welch. In the second last day of Welch-week, this quote has an interesting contradiction to the Six Sigma approach to incremental improvements that Jack Welch brought to General Electric. This program at GE certainly…
Read More »"Self-confident people don’t need to wrap themselves in complexity and all that clutter that passes for sophistication in business. Self-confident leaders produce simple plans, speak simply, and propose big clear targets." Jack Welch. In any line of business, have you ever noticed how the most knowledgeable exponents are also able to break concepts down into simple messages? And have you also noticed that the "almost gurus"…
Read More »“The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action – fast.” Jack Welch (again). The message in today's blog is that OSS has so much scope to learn better ideas from other people, other industries, other processes, etc. The "not invented here" syndrome…
Read More »"When you become a leader success is all about growing others." Jack Welch. Another Welch quote today... perhaps this is Jack Welch week here on Passionate About OSS. Loud and clear, being a successful leader in OSS comes through learning, teaching and ultimately growing others. The OctopOSS has too many tentacles for a lone genius person to do it all. Looking back, virtually everyone I've encountered…
Read More »Two quotes, one orator, one message today. 1. "Managers muddle – leaders inspire. Leaders inspire with clear vision of how things can be done better." 2. To empower your people is “to turn them loose, and get the management layers off their backs, the bureaucratic shackles off their feet and the functional barriers out of their way.” Jack Welch. Just like yesterday, today's blog is led…
Read More »"You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is." Jack Welch. When it comes to developing an OSS product, the balance of these two mindsets is always a challenge. Does a particular customer requirement today make sense for the long-term product evolution of tomorrow? Managing short is easy but the…
Read More »Ericsson acquires Telcocell Ericsson welcomes approximately 200 skilled consulting and systems integration professionals who will be integrated into Ericsson in North America over the coming months and will work under the Ericsson brand as of September 3, 2013
Read More »"The principles of modularity, simplicity, or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to overall simplicity, are an excellent means to an end; but as a substitute for simplicity they are very questionable" C.A.R. Hoare. There are now hundreds of vendors offering COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) OSS tools, many of which are listed on our vendors/products page. There are many niche products in this list. It also…
Read More »"Gamification enables you to drive, measure, and reward high-value behaviors by customers or employees. Game mechanics leverage design and behavioral psychology principles inherent in today’s social games to drive and reward specific user behaviors in business environments. Smart gamification elements—such as points, achievements, levels, leaderboards, missions, and contests—can be employed to drive desired behaviors on virtually any website or enterprise application" Kris Duggan and Kate Shoup…
Read More »Amdocs buys Actix for $120M. With the acquisition of Actix, the leading independent software provider of mobile network optimization solutions, Amdocs will be expanding its CES (Customer Experience Systems) portfolio with geo-located network data that will drive a variety of optimization use cases.
Read More »"Get this over with" vs. ... "Get something started." Seth Godin. Another enlightening blog entry from Seth Godin above. Once again the blog has got nothing to do with OSS, but in my (our?) world it has everything to do with the implementation of an OSS. He uses the analogy of a fast food store getting a transaction over as fast and as cheap as possible.…
Read More »"The marriage of high-speed IP-based network infrastructure and the new generation of IT support systems will ultimately lead to a greater focus on areas such as customer experience, business intelligence and innovative ways of dealing with network congestion." Peter Dykes. Peter has hit the nail on the head in his quote above, from a post on telecoms.com. We're in a period of major change in the…
Read More »"People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open." Paulo Coelho. In this article, the insight from Cisco's Chief Futurist, David Evans provides a view of the future of personal health monitoring. In the future of IoE, the device count will be massive and the variety will also be staggering. How will that…
Read More »"An online consumer survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users in the UK and Germany, carried out by billing firm Mach and research agency Opinium in April, found significant demand for direct operator billing, suggesting it could be the preferred payment method of choice for apps and in-app purchases." James Middleton. Carrier billing is an interesting alternative to the OTT threat by filling one of the…
Read More »"Simply providing a voice-and-data pipe out to a customer and collecting a monthly fee no longer is a viable business model. Savvy mobile operators realize this and are deploying OSS/BSS solutions that enable them to analyze how prepaid, postpaid and hybrid customers are using their network and then creating tailored promotions and tariffs tailored to specific customers, the more personal the better." Beau Atwater in an…
Read More »"In 2013, many CSPs will partner with OTT players. For example, a mobile operator could provide a certain amount of bandwidth and prioritization to a video OTT provider that agrees to share revenue because the QoS would help differentiate its service." Beau Atwater in an article on BillingWorld I like what Beau is proposing here. Clearly OTT providers are a major threat to the incumbent telcos.…
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