[n_coats]

As striking as it is for a company to take in a billion every quarter and still fail to make a profit, it is all to common in the telco space. I know from experience at one of the big 4 wireless carriers in the US. The inefficient mismanagement and spending decisions, specifically related to operations were astounding.

I started a company (shameless plug: fifthsignal.com) that makes software to fix a lot of the inefficiencies we saw. One of our biggest concerns was whether or not other carriers operated as poorly as what we had experienced. After talking with several carriers outside of the US, it would seem that most are actually worse off.

I believe someone in this thread made a comment towards the "legacy" telco space. Based on my experience, I would say it's a "dinosaur" industry that has seen very little delivered innovation in recent times.

*Most of my experience relates to operations/OSS solutions, with very little insight into telco BSS space.

[ismail]

Hey, plenty of experience in the gsm telecoms space. Currently doing some consulting with telecom co's shoot me a mail username at ZyeLabs.net. see how we can colab. Could refer you to some guys. One of our clients wanted to do a POC to pull logs from the RAN side into Hadoop but the vendors like Huawei and ZTE keep their kit locked down. Even refusing to supply spec on file formats.

[oddstorms]

But that's not the problem here, as everyone is explaining. The problem is that they are wasting all their money paying massive interest on massive debt. One of those times that a business gets caught up in tie same cycle as is usually reserved for people. It's quite treasonous and the first things to get hacked are decents who are just trying to get by.