While telcos are, for the most part, embracing the TM Forum’s Open APIs, software product vendors’ implementations are lagging, according to a study.
The results of TM Forum’s quarterly survey show that the average maturity level of Open APIs was 26% higher for CSPs than for vendors. The lack of vendor participation has led some communications service providers (CSPs) to take a “do it yourself” (DIY) approach to implementing the Open APIs.