This article was first published in The Fast Mode.
For years telecom vendors have been trotting out the ‘faster time to market’ line like a mantra. It doesn’t matter if they’re selling network equipment, BSS, apps, or cloud services, the ‘faster time to market’ promise is always in the marketing department’s list of benefits and promises.
In a recent blog, Qvantel’s CDO, Ruben Lopez wrote about how the aspirations of service providers have become more ambitious with the majority wanting to become full digital service providers selling a variety of end-to-end services. Ruben also wrote that he’d led several digital transformation projects where the service provider is now a fully digital company providing everything from education...
Billing is central to BSS and it’s crucial that the billing function in BSS keeps ahead of the trends in telecoms. CSPs need this so they can monetise new services, new business models and be able to accommodate any payment options that customers will have. Plus, they’ll need to be able to quickly develop and manage pricing offers and cater for all new pricing permutations that the marketing...