BSS / OSS Features

Lymeware Corp. built a SECAB Viewer product for small operators to reformat SECAB billing records into usable, readable formats.

More than $310 million in disputed revenue has been ordered to be returned to urban customers of Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Telus and MTS Allstream by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Even though Apple’s media event this week focused on TVs and the iPod, the company took time to hype its wireless stats, all in an apparent attempt to downplay the scary-fast growth of rival Google’s Android platform.

The sky has been falling on the IPv4 protocol for a long time, but now that end users can practically reach up and touch that sky, they need to prepare in earnest for the transition to IPv6.

An update to Palm’s webOS is being rolled out to developers in an Early Access Program. Can webOS 2.0 to the masses be far behind?

A former Nortel vice president is trying to collect 25,000 signatures via an online petition. Problem is, he’s only been able to get 300 names in two weeks.

Cisco sees the electric grid as one more form of networking that will become a natural subsidiary market in the next few years.

Minnesota-based Federated Telephone Cooperative has selected Digitiliti's DigiLIBE Information Management solution better manage, control and utilize its growing unstructured data.

Allot Communications and BroadHop have put together a fully-integrated solution for putting subscribers in control of their services.

Security and back-office operations are emerging as essential elements of the next-generation network. To help establish best practices and guidelines for their implementation, the NGN IMS Forum today published three new papers.

Verizon has withdrawn the controversial forbearance petition that could have given the operator regulatory relief in six major metro areas, a move that gives CLECs some breathing room.

Verizon Wireless reportedly is on the verge of bulking up its prepaid smartphone offerings with BlackBerry and Android-based handsets.

Oracle has introduced a pair of new Sun Netra servers designed to help network equipment providers and CSPs keep pace with rapidly growing demands for new services, like 3G- and 4G-wireless data and VoIP.

Apple Inc. is taking another stab at facing down telcos and cable companies for the in-home TV opportunity.

Research In Motion took another reputation hit from Wall Street this week when a Bernstein analyst issued a dire view of the BlackBerry maker’s market share.

A new report says T-Mobile getting the iPhone is a certainty, most likely at the beginning of the year. Could it beat Verizon to the punch?

LinkedIn offers the chance to influence the B/OSS conversation.

Having just acquired in June the application interface element of its new ecosystem with its ProgrammableWeb buy, Alcatel-Lucent added a developer’s dream with the acquisition today of cross-platform mobile development tool provider Open Plug.

LightSquared's new nationwide wholesale LTE network will be a boon for rural operators, but the model is not without back-office challenges.

Adding new intelligent hardware from Dataupia to its ROC Revenue Assurance solution, Subex has expanded its data management capabilities.