Service Provider Leadership Council (SPLC)

The Service Provider Leadership Council (SPLC) allows Service Providers to provide thought leadership to ensure that TM Forum initiatives address Service Providers’ current pain points and strategic directions.

The SPLC works closely with the TM Forum Collaboration Program leadership to provide a Service Providers’ view of the prioritization of TM Forum activitiesbased on cross industry Service Provider requirements.

The SPLC provides the TM Forum, as a whole, and the individual teams, with a collective Service Provider view. The SPLC focuses on how the strategic goals of service providers can be met and the effect that these goals will have on existing (and new) TM Forum Collaboration Program teams.

Click here to download version 4 of the Service Provider Leadership Council Charter.

The Open Source Interest Group, which was formed by the SPLC, will be meeting during the Nice Management World on Thursday 7th May from 17:00 until 18:30 in the Maia room ... please come and join us.
SPLC Overview
The SPLC is a chartered group of the TM Forum that brings Service Provider (SP) members together for the resolution of issues of mutual interest. The SPLC is a vehicle:

...for sharing information of common interest to SPs

...to help provide direction to the vendor community to advance in a commonly beneficial direction

...to produce requirements that will drive the TM Forum Collaboration Program

...to communicate how end-user customer requirements translate to service provider requirements

Please contact Ken Dilbeck at kdilbeck@tmforum.org for more information or to nominate a Service Provider for membership to the SPLC.


SPLC Activities
Main Focus Areas
Two new initiatives are in early development stages.
Open Source Interest Group
The aim of the Open Source Interest Group is to strategically address the issue of OpenSource Software, through the creation of a community of Service Providers that manages synergy trends and Open Source tool adoption, creating value from new approaches and technologies, and reducing risk of OpenSource Adoption. Read More...

The Interest Group, which was formed by the SPLC, will be meeting during the Nice Management World on Thursday 7th May from 17:00 until 18:30 in the Maia room ... please come and join us.

Large Scale Buyers Council
Although not run under the SPLC, the Large Scale Buyers Council is a new strategic initiative of particular interest. This group is also in early development and currently working on producing a charter. Read About the objectives of the council here.

Ask the SPLC
If you would like to submit a question to the SPLC for their consideration, please email us at questionforsplc@tmforum.org.

SPLC Documents
TR154, Business Requirements for Migration/Convergence to Next Generation Networks (NGN), Release 1.0
Open Source Interest Group Charter, Version 1.2
SPLC Charter Document - Phase 4
TMF516, Services over IP Business Requirements, Release1.0
TR130, Delighting Our Customers - Customer Satisfiers/De-Satisfiers Metrification: A Quantitative Analysis, Release 1.0

SPLC Members
Service Provider Leadership Council Members

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