What is BSSArena

Communication has always played a pivotal role in human evolution.

Communication helps people to collaborate, share, express, and thus evolve. The 21st century has been the golden age of communication. These days anything and everything is communicating and syncing with each other. We know it as the "Internet of Things". 

www.BssArena.com is a site dedicated to people making Communication happen. It is for, of, and by people involved in Telecom Business.

It is for people who manage Telco operations, develop products and solutions used by Telcos, and are involved in Telecom Business management. 

It is a platform to share, learn, collaborate, and thus move forward and find better, effective ways of making communication happen. And thus keep this world connected. 

The motivation behind this site is to collaborate with others in the Telecom space and thus contribute to the domain.

The given below is an index of the content available on this site. And I hope it addresses one or more than one of the requirements/challenges of the B/OSS fraternity. 

1. OSS and BSS

As the name signifies, this section is aimed at exploring 

• What are OSS and BSS 
• The systems and applications that are categorized either as OSS or BSS. 
• Customer Relationship Management System
• Mediation System
• Activation System
• Convergent Billing System
• What is a Telecom Convergent Telecom Billing System 
• Understanding Telecom Billing system 
• What is a Rate Plan
• What is Call Rating 
• Revenue Assurance System 
• Fraud Management System
• Credits and Collections Management System
• Service Order Management System
• Workforce Management System
• Network Inventory System 
• Network Planning System
• Enterprise Bus 

 

2. Understanding Telecom Business

This section is comprised of the independent page(s) on various topics of Telecom Domain like Business Stream of a Telco, Top-down approach to Mobile Usage, a model similar to OSI for Mobile Usage

• Mapping Mobile Services to Network Elements
• What are the factors that impact the Evolution of the Billing System
• Understanding Roaming Business
• What is Roaming
• How do 2 Telecom Operators enter into a Roaming Agreement  
• What is a TAP file
• What is a Data Clearing House and how does it help in the Roaming Business 
• How Customer is charged for Roaming Usage

3. Forum, Consortium, and Standards

4. Mobile Network Technology

• Understanding the Mobile Network technology

5. Wire line Technology

6. Trends in Communication Services Business 

7. Surveys

This section is to get the nerve of the industry, to gauge the buzz of the industry.

8. References

A library of various articles, sites, and tools to sharpen further the learnings made here