Established network operators must understand and engage with an increasingly diverse landscape of partners, distributors, suppliers and intermediaries. The TM Forum is the meeting place for collaboration among these stakeholders, as its guide books, standards and frameworks have directly assisted members in consolidating and integrating information previously scattered across “information silos.”

The prevalence of TM Forum members within service providers and software providers fosters the proliferation of standards and best practices. That helps lower the cost of system integration among partners, and creates operations and business systems environments that accommodate changing customer and market demands. For that reason, network operators can design and deploy new services in hours rather than months.