Cerillion Blog - BSS/OSS

With new models emerging every few months, betting on a single AI provider is increasingly risky. Cerillion Product Director, Brian Coombs, explains why composable AI architectures matter and how our AI Management Centre enables future-proof, secure and flexible GenAI adoption.

Shock, horror – mid-contract price rises are back! As O2 and others surprise customers with higher-than-expected increases to their contracts in 2026, is Ofcom’s once-lauded ban failing to deliver?

5G is still letting users down. However, a recent controversy suggests that consumers may understand phone signal even less than we had thought. Where has all the phone signal gone – or was it never really there to begin with?

How can CSPs truly keep pace with customer demands and the rapid evolution of digital services? As the industry shifts from rigid, request-response architectures to flexible, event-driven integrations, Leonardo Hodgson explores how asynchronous APIs are unlocking new levels of efficiency and innovation across the telco ecosystem.

The latest Cerillion Customer Forum offered our clients a look-ahead to features of upcoming product releases, plus some great debates and discussions. We look back at two days of telecoms talk in London.

5G delivers increased mobility, performance and security – so why aren’t telcos doing more to capitalise on these capabilities in the private sector? We break down the essentials of private 5G, and how telcos can seize the initiative.

We’re soon entering the “fast fashion era of SaaS,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Could this overrun the market with poor-quality slopware, and is so-called “vibe coding” to blame?

After months of breathless anticipation and increasing promises of GenAI, the release of GPT-5 served as an unexpected reality check for an industry high on its own supply. Perhaps it’s time to see AI for what it really is: not magic, but normal technology. Can we find this middle ground, or is the bubble about to dramatically pop?

In 1995, two futurologists made a series of projections for the state of telecoms in the 2020s. We revisit their forecasts in 2025 to see how well – or not – their predictions held up.