After working in the telecom sector for a while, you'll realize that OSS BSS patterns frequently oscillate. Off-the-shelf items swing back and forth between in-house designed and off-the-shelf products. Modular to monolithic and back again. Moving away from monolithic stacks and toward microservices is the current trend. For many years, telecom OSS solutions have promoted modularity by utilizing best-of-breed strategies. They are now using microservices more and more, which are a smaller-scale version of modularity.
Future-ready OSS and BSS services can handle Next Generation services on the same platform, including high-speed internet, IPTV, VoIP, and other services. Hotlinking, bandwidth-on-demand, captive portal (a single subscriber sign-on solution that is network and service neutral), sophisticated policy-based grading, and pricing are other capabilities.
With a dynamic billing technology in place, telecom billing companies may offer their customers itemised invoices that are highly available and accurate without any training or an economics degree. Technically, comprehensive features in telecom billing software solutions make it simpler for businesses to check for duplicate data and manage subscriptions on time.
Also, it's not only fallout. Additional effects result from having more integration points:
- The integration tax, or cost, tends to increase. We must add an adaptation layer when we link one system to another.
- System integration is an afterthought. Not that integration is an afterthought in and of itself. The developers seldom consider the precise integration of Product A and Product B, C, etc. Different data models may need to be forced together by the integrators, thus leading to misalignments. Two connected systems could, for instance, share a property but have distinct formats or naming conventions.
- When two telecom billing companies work separately to create the data models for their products, rich data cross-linking is not a consideration. While there may be just enough correlation to make the interface functional, there may not be enough to facilitate sophisticated data analysis easily.
- More testing is necessary to ensure the interface functions flawlessly in all conceivable cases. Data sets, formats, procedures, and transactions must all be tested. Unfortunately, when testing doesn't account for all potential outcomes, problems arise.
Conclusion for Telecom Industry Trends
It is simple to create complex queries using commercial telecommunications billing software when customer and network data is available in one location, in a single common and cross-linked database. The wealth of knowledge often locked up in operations is released this way, making it accessible to your other business divisions.
Through unified customer lifecycle management, personalized interactions, and exceptional business flexibility to match the constantly shifting market Through unified customer lifecycle management, personalized interactions, and exceptional business flexibility to match the constantly shifting market expectations,Caretel provides a unified billing and revenue management system that maximizes customer value. It supports wireless and wireline networks, phone, video, messaging, and data content services and may be implemented in traditional or convergent operators. It enables investment as your business expands and supports prepaid and postpaid enterprises. Allowing you to use a centralized, next-generation communications system and services for porting originating and terminating numbers.