OTT for Telco & Regional Operators

A platform built for the realities of a carrier — where OTT has to live inside your BSS/OSS stack, attach cleanly to mobile and broadband tariffs, and migrate a legacy subscriber base without breaking billing, provisioning, or entitlements.

< 30 days

Typical go-live from kick-off

40+

Prebuilt BSS/OSS integration endpoints

< 1.9 pts

Broadband churn delta after attach

99.99%

Platform SLA for carrier-grade workloads

Built for the Operator Stack

Vucos for telco operators is a full OTT platform — player, CMS, CDN, DRM, entitlements, billing bridge, and analytics — designed to plug into carrier BSS/OSS rather than stand next to it. It speaks the protocols your provisioning, charging, and CRM systems already use (TM Forum APIs, Diameter/Gy for charging events, Kafka for subscriber lifecycle), so OTT subscriptions are first-class products in your product catalog, not an external add-on. A single operator can run prepaid, postpaid, hybrid, and B2B tariffs against the same entitlement engine, with carrier billing, mobile bundles, and broadband zero-rating treated as native monetization paths.

Why this matters

Most OTT vendors were built for D2C streaming businesses and bolt awkwardly onto a carrier. The result is a parallel stack — a separate billing system, separate identity, separate CRM touchpoints — that multiplies churn risk and blocks the one thing a telco can do that pure-play OTT cannot: bundle streaming with the core connectivity product.

Vucos eliminates that parallel stack. Entitlements resolve against your subscriber record, charges flow through your existing rating engine, and OTT events land on the same subscriber 360 your retention teams already use. When a customer disputes a bill, suspends service, changes tariff, or ports out, the OTT side responds in the same transaction — not two days later from a separate vendor dashboard.

What telco operators get

Carrier billing integration

Charge OTT subscriptions, PPV, and upgrades directly to the mobile bill or prepaid balance via Diameter/Gy, TM Forum Product Ordering, or your existing mediation layer.

Mobile & broadband bundling

Attach OTT tiers to tariff plans as bundle components, zero-rate streaming traffic on your network, and expose bundle logic to retail and CVM systems through a single API.

BSS/OSS integration

Native TM Forum Open API support (TMF622, TMF632, TMF637, TMF678) for product ordering, party management, inventory, and billing events — prebuilt connectors for Amdocs, Netcracker, Ericsson BSCS, and Oracle BRM.

Regional CDN & edge footprint

Deploy OTT close to your subscribers with on-net edge caches, peering with your transit, and regional headends — so streaming traffic stays within your network where the economics favor it.

Subscriber migration tooling

Move subscribers from legacy IPTV, CAS, or third-party OTT platforms without re-registration — identity reconciliation, entitlement mapping, and staged cutovers with rollback.

Operator-grade analytics

ARPU, gross adds, churn, content ROI, and QoE reported per tariff, per region, and per bundle — with data residency that respects your regulator and internal security perimeter.

Recent customer stories

Tier-1 mobile operator, MENA

OTT as a 5G postpaid anchor

A regional mobile operator launched a premium OTT tier as the anchor benefit of a new 5G postpaid plan. Vucos integrated with their Amdocs BSS for carrier billing, zero-rated traffic through their GGSN, and delivered a branded app in under 30 days — ARPU on the target tariff lifted 14% within two quarters.

Converged telco, Western Europe

Fiber triple-play refresh

A converged telco needed to replace an aging IPTV middleware with a modern OTT-first experience that still lit up 400k in-field STBs. Vucos delivered a hybrid stack — new OTT apps for phone and TV plus STB backward compatibility — with zero-downtime migration across an 18-month phased cutover.

Regional broadband ISP, Southeast Asia

Attach rate on fiber tariffs

A broadband ISP used Vucos to stand up a bundled streaming product attached to its fiber tariffs. Entitlements were provisioned through their Netcracker stack at order completion; attach rate on the top two tariffs reached 62% in six months, and broadband churn dropped by 1.9 points.

Integration & rollout

BSS/OSS protocols

TM Forum Open APIs (TMF622, TMF632, TMF637, TMF678)
Diameter Gy/Ro charging
Kafka subscriber lifecycle events
3GPP SGsAP provisioning hooks

Prebuilt BSS connectors

Amdocs CES/CSM
Netcracker Digital BSS
Ericsson BSCS iX
Oracle BRM
Huawei CBS

Billing paths

Carrier billing (mobile postpaid/prepaid)
Broadband bill attach
Credit card / wallet fallback
B2B invoice

Network integration

On-net CDN edge caches
BGP peering with transit
Traffic steering via DNS/Anycast
Zero-rating marking via DPI/PCRF

Migration

IPTV middleware replacement
Legacy CAS → modern DRM transition
Third-party OTT lift-and-shift
Phased cutover with rollback

Rollout stages

Discovery & BSS mapping (4-6 weeks)
Integration build (6-10 weeks)
Pilot cohort (4 weeks)
Phased production cutover

Key Takeaways

Carrier billing, mobile bundling, and broadband zero-rating as native monetization paths
Prebuilt BSS/OSS connectors for Amdocs, Netcracker, Ericsson BSCS, Oracle BRM, Huawei CBS
TM Forum Open API alignment so OTT is a first-class product in your catalog
Subscriber migration from IPTV middleware, legacy CAS, or third-party OTT without re-registration
On-net CDN edge footprint to keep streaming traffic economics inside your network
Operator-grade analytics — ARPU, gross adds, churn, QoE — per tariff, region, and bundle

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Vucos integrate with our existing BSS rather than replace it?

Yes — that is the default deployment. Vucos exposes TM Forum Open APIs and ships prebuilt connectors for Amdocs, Netcracker, Ericsson BSCS, Oracle BRM, and Huawei CBS. Product ordering, charging, and subscriber lifecycle events flow through your existing BSS; we do not introduce a parallel billing stack.

How does carrier billing work end to end?

OTT purchases route through your mediation layer using Diameter Gy/Ro or your existing charging interface. Postpaid charges land on the monthly bill as a standard product line; prepaid debits the wallet in real time. Vucos guarantees idempotent charging semantics so a retried transaction never double-charges the subscriber.

How do you migrate subscribers from our current IPTV or OTT platform?

We run a two-phase migration — first a shadow reconciliation that maps legacy identities, entitlements, and device bindings into Vucos, then a staged cutover with rollback. Subscribers are not forced to re-register and entitlements remain continuous across the cutover window. Typical migration scope is defined in weeks, not months.

Does OTT traffic stay on our network?

Where you want it to. Vucos deploys on-net CDN edges inside your AS, peers with your transit, and supports DNS/Anycast steering so streaming traffic terminates on your infrastructure. Traffic can be marked for zero-rating at the DPI/PCRF layer, and QoE telemetry is correlated to your access network so you can tune capex decisions on real data.

Can a single OTT product serve prepaid, postpaid, and B2B customers?

Yes. The entitlement engine is tariff-agnostic — the same content catalog and apps can be offered with different pricing, commitment rules, and billing paths per segment. Prepaid top-up, postpaid add-on, and B2B invoice are all resolved against the same subscriber record with per-segment business rules.

What regulatory and data-residency controls are supported?

Subscriber and viewership data can be pinned to a region, an in-country data center, or even a dedicated tenant for lawful-intercept compliance. Event schemas flag PII for hashing or suppression, retention windows are configurable per field, and role-based access is aligned to your internal security perimeter.

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