“And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.”
Spike Milligan.
Over the past few days, we have spoken about the different industries that have been, or could benefit from the introduction of OSS.
Utilities companies (electricity, water, rail) tend to have extensive communications networks to manage their core infrastructure.
De-regulation in some countries in recent years has even opened up the opportunity for these traditional utilities to become multi-utility companies. This allowed them to open up their infrastructure to external subscribers rather than just use their communications assets for internal use.
Subscriber management means an increased importance of end-to-end visibility of customer trails through a utility’s multiple network platforms. This introduces the need for adding B/OSS features into the utility’s network management road-map, where previously they may have managed to operate from their various vendor-specific network sub-sections.
Standing out in a highly saturated and fragmented OSS market can be really difficult. We’re regularly involved in bake-offs where we see dozens of OSS
One of the things I love about my job is all the vendor demos I get to see. Product demos are one of the four
Have you read the book, “The 4-hour work week” by Tim Ferris? It was one of those relatively rare books that inspired a complete mindset
Over the years, we’ve been involved in many OSS procurement events and have seen a variety of different pricing models proposed by vendors. Being software,
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.
