On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Justin M. Streiner <strei...@cluebyfour.org> wrote: > > I haven't looked lately to see what's out there, but I'd imagine there *has* > to be something.
I bet this is a market/cost thing... there are ~100 people who want this? it's going to take a few million in SWE resources to build, and probably recovery of that expense is going to be difficult :( > I can understand why many telcos ended up building their own systems, > because many of them use(d) different or home-grown > provisioning/billing/plant management/trouble ticketing systems, and > different back-end systems in general, making a one-size-fits-all solution > tough to do. this MOSTLY gets to the ins/outs formats, right? 'billing system at $TELCO requires CSV output' (or something) and telco folk don't always like to think about 'standards'.
