Voip-BSS-OSS News

Worldwide Twitter use is on the rise, especially in Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela.

MSP software provider N-able has upgraded its N-compass IT performance reporting solution to include support for SQL Server 2008.

BT Global Services has been named a “leader" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Asia Pacific Network Service Providers and a “challenger" in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services (COPS), North America.

AT&T is shelling out $60,000 to a former employee who claimed his application for a job as a cable splicer was turned away because he uses insulin to treat his type 2 diabetes.

Value-added prepaid debit processor eCommLink has inked a five-year deal with Allcom to provide prepaid transaction processing services for the company’s GenieCard.

Tigerpaw’s professional service automation technology has been integrated with Quest Software’s PacketTrap MSP networking monitoring and management solution to provide richer capabilities for managed service providers.

Having successfully converting to a carrier access billing solution from Mid America Computer Corp. (MACC), SC Telcom extended its relationship with the Nebraska-based vendor and selected its BSS/OSS and financial software solution.

It’s a good bet you’ll be getting an update to your smartphone’s operating system today or in the very near future.

The new sex study determined that iPhone owners average approximately 11 partners by the age of 30, more than BlackBerry and Android-phone owners.

Monaco Telecom will extend its billing and revenue management relationship with Oracle to engage in a business transformation project that includes the Oracle Communications Order and Service Management solution and Oracle Communications Consulting.

Author Liz Franklin gives small business owners advice and deserves kudos for her book title alone: “How to Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson.” She's telling your small business customers to go prepaid in order to control their costs.

tw telecom reported a second quarter profit thanks to a $227.3 million tax benefit.

Former Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a key figure in attempts to reform the 1996 Telecom Act, died late Monday in a single-engine float plane crash in his home state.

FairPoint Communications says it will try again to convince Vermont regulators to approve its post-bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Ciena implemented the network, which has already been deployed, in partnership with Jet Infosystems, a major systems integrator in Russia and the CIS region.

The Billing & OSS World group on LinkedIn, a social networking group formed in January 2009 by the B/OSS Conference & Expo, has added an additional 500 members in just four months, hitting a record 2,500 members!

The resignation of Peter Skillman raises questions about the future of Palm’s webOS and device development at HP.

Berg Insight research shows that the worldwide installed base of smart electricity meters will have a compound annual growth rate of 31.1 percent between 2009 and 2015, hitting more than 300 million by the end of ’15.

4G has the potential to further strengthen the high growth trend in video streaming, gaming, music downloads and P2P file sharing, giving users easier access to restricted material.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated an unemployment rate in the telecom sector at 10.1 percent. We lost almost 50,000 jobs in the last year. Make of it what you will, but I call that a resounding success.