Our final takeaway from the TM Forum’s recent DTW Ignite event aims to shine a spotlight on the sustainability potential of the OSS and (to a lesser extent) BSS technologies inside the operator stacks. The TM Forum uses its Catalyst program to help develop new approaches. There are dozens of catalysts, running the gamut. Put simply, a ‘champion’ company will put forward a requirement inside the program, and ‘participant’ companies will work together to try and solve that problem. In the first case, the ‘Accelerating telecom’s sustainability journey – Phase II’ project is championed by Verizon, Namibia’s MTC, and Telkom South Africa’s wholesale OpenServe division, to suggest lower-carbon choices for customers to select from. It uses ‘real-time’ data to show…