What is Telco OSS?

What does the abbreviation stand for?

Telco OSS stands for Telecommunication Operations support system.

What is it?

Telco OSS is the operational software for telecommunications companies, it is one of the most critical sectors in the telecoms industry, but one of the most unknown. OSS systems manage predominantly Functional and Non functional requirements of solutions/systems. Monitoring, End-to-End design, Error Handling tend to be the main areas of work. Telco OSS's manage many different tasks in telecommunications including monitoring telephone numbers centrally, some companies deal with millions upon millions of telephone numbers, assigning and managing them can become tiresome without good OSS software.

Who uses it?

All large telecommunications companies will use OSS software, generally outsource software.

These companies include: O2 Vodafone British Telecom Orange 3 And many others...

Who makes the software?

Many companies make the software, with over 200 competing for a piece of the action. However Evolving Systems (NASDAQ-EVOL), is one of the more main stream Telco OSS providers providing software solutions to the IP Carrier, wireless and wireline market and its partner company Accenture Pte Ltd announced recently that they have been selected by a large telecoms operator in Indonesia to provide newer better service activation OSS.