Four major telcos collaborate for telecoms blockchain test

CBCCom, PCCW Global, Sparkle and Tata Communications are collaborating on a blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC). The PoC is for Bandwidth-on-Demand which is how telecoms companies buy bandwidth from each other for international services. The PoC plans to showcase the potential for next-generation communication services such as IoT, VR, and cloud.

What the PoC will do

The primary aim of the PoC is to demonstrate how inter-carrier bandwidth services can be discovered, quoted, delivered and settled without a central intermediary. Some of the carriers and mobile operators already have on-demand services on their own network and infrastructure. But the inter-carrier operations are not yet automated and are currently done through conventional OSS and BSS. OSS is for how the operator runs their network and BSS is how a telco interacts with customers.

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