Industry Organizations


  • TMF Names Excellence Awards Recipients
    The TeleManagement Forum on Tuesday named the recipients of its Excellence Awards, presented at a black-tie gala in Nice, France. The awards recognize leaders in operational excellence and companies approaching bill and OSS in new ways. The TM Forum Excellence Awards ...More
    May 20, 2008
    Posted in News, Billing
  • Subex Adds WiMAX Fulfillment
    Subex used the TM Forum this week to introduce new products in its Revenue Maximization and Fulfillment as well as Assurance business lines. One of these is a new version of its already recognizable Revenue Operations Center (ROC). The ROC -- a centralized collection of ...More
    May 20, 2008 By Tim McElligott
    Posted in News, Revenue Management
  • Easynet Deploys Telcordia’s New Dynamic Service Catalog
    Telcordia launched a new OSS fulfillment product called the Dynamic Service Catalog this week from the TM Forum’s Management World conference in Nice while also announcing the product’s first customer: Easynet, a pan-European data networking provider. As part of ...More
    May 20, 2008 By Tim McElligott
    Posted in News, Billing
  • HP-Amdocs Demo Proves IMS-Legacy Billing System Interoperability
    In concert with the IMS Forum, HP and Amdocs announced this week that they have demonstrated it’s possible for carriers to use their existing billing infrastructure to charge for services enabled by IMS Networks, potentially removing a barrier to IMS adoption. ...More
    May 2, 2008 By Khali Henderson
    Posted in News
  • The Challenge of Managing Multivendor Networks
    When Alexander Graham Bell’s second telephone patent expired in 1894, competitive vendors flooded the market. The challenge of managing multivendor networks has been raising its ugly head ever since. And for 114 years, network managers have been finding excuses to ...More
    April 28, 2008 By Tim McElligott
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Standards Watch: TM Forum Readies for Nice
    Martin Creaner is president of the TM Forum. His organization will be holding its largest annual event, Management World 2008, next month in Nice, France. Creaner spoke with Billing & OSS World about the theme of the event and some of the initiatives being discussed ...More
    April 28, 2008
    Posted in Articles, Service Creation & Delivery
  • TM Forum Creates Interface Factory
    The TM Forum has launched an interface program intended to help service providers expedite their time to market with convergent service bundles and foster the flexibility necessary to rapidly accommodate market changes. Under the TM Forum Interface Program, all interface ...More
    April 15, 2008
    Posted in News
  • CTIA: WiMAX, Full Steam Ahead
    WiMAX was a hot topic at CTIA, with announcements of new devices, a new player and new affirmations from Sprint Nextel giving the topic steam. Although he keynoted the conference, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse did not, as had been widely anticipated, offer any details this week ...More
    April 3, 2008 By Tara Seals
    Posted in News
  • BSS/OSS Vendors Plug Into IMS Forum
    If you’re looking for a sign of the times, this is it. In the new era of the next generation network – arriving as we speak by way of IMS and pre-IMS architectures and some hybrid variations thereof – operations software is no longer an afterthought. As ...More
    April 2, 2008 By Tim McElligott
    Posted in Articles
  • Nokia Siemens to Expand Apertio Beyond the HLR
    Putting the subscriber at the heart of a company’s strategy is a concept with the air of a public relations pitch. But when your job is managing subscriber data, like Apertio’s, the concept earns you 140 million Euros and the chance to expand your business beyond the Home ...More
    February 29, 2008 By Tim McElligott
    Posted in Articles