T-Online France deploys Visionael to automate delivery of services to residential customers
T-Online France has selected Visionael’s Network Resource Manager (NRM) to automate delivery of its triple play services to residential customers. Visionael’s NRM was deployed by T-Online France to establish an essential foundation for effectively managing video, voice and data services that are in a state of constant change due to fierce competitive pressures.
Visionael also issued a release last week in which it announced the release of preliminary data from Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast report at Visionael Advantage conference, which took place in New York City. The in-depth research report which interviews mobile, wireline, and cable service providers responsible for management of hundreds of millions of subscribers/access lines, found drastic changes in communications service provider (CSP) buying habits for customized OSS/BSS solutions. According to Stratecast, with competition growing fierce among service providers for triple play services, CSPs are making the move towards commercial off-the-shelf products that do not require customisation. Previous Stratecast research in 2005 showed that 16 percent of CSPs questioned were implementing highly customized OSS/BSS solutions. This figure has now plunged to two percent.
Reasons given by communications service providers include no longer being able to accept 18-24 month implementation cycles for fulfillment solutions, and out-of-control ongoing costs to maintain, update, and test custom or homegrown OSS/BSS software. The study cites one executive from a mobile and wireless service provider who went so far as to say, "Any manager authorizing customization will be sacked!" The stakes are high for service providers, with annual OSS/BSS spending estimated to be 20 - 25 percent of CAPEX. Based on combined estimates, annual service provider CAPEX is expected to be $150 - $250 billion. This results in OSS/BSS capital spending estimates of $30 - $62.5 billion annually, which does not include professional services beyond those required to install the solution or managed services.
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