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. 

www.BssArena.com is a site dedicated to people making communication happen. It is for, of, and by people involved in Telecom Business. It for people who manage Telco operations, develop products and solution used by Telcos, involved in Telecom Business management. 

It is a platform to share, to learn, to 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.


All the content of the site falls under 4 buckets/verticals and each vertical is to address one or more than one of the requirements/challenges of B/OSS fraternity. 

1. OSS and BSS

As the name signifies, this section is aimed at exploring 

What is OSS and BSS 

2. 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

2.1 Mapping Mobile Services to Network Elements

2.2 What are the factors that impact the Evolution of the Billing System

2.3 Understanding Roaming Business

2.3.1 What is Roaming

2.3.1 How do 2 Telecom Operators enter into a Roaming Agreement  

2.3.3 What is a TAP file

2.3.4 What is a Data Clearing House and how it helps in the Roaming Business 

2.3.5 How Customer is charged for Roaming Usage

3. Forum, Consortium and Standards

4. 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, tools to sharpen further the learnings made here

Comments

Popular Posts