Partner ecosystem best practices
Create new revenue streams with stronger partnerships
Today, no CSP innovates or scales alone. Carefully managed ecosystem partnerships are essential in order to enable organizations to move faster, reduce risk, and unlock new sources of value.
TM Forum is helping CSPs to develop and optimize their partnership ecosystems through industry insights and focused member collaboration programs.

Industry insights

New business models: Making sense of partner platforms
Find out how CSPs are rising to the challenge of accelerating and de-risking new services delivered with their partners.

What is B2B2X and what has it got to do with Industry 4.0?
See how CSPs are identifying and monetizing the high value opportunities of Industry 4.0.

Where do the opportunities lie?
Many telcos aspire to build their own marketplaces where developers offer new services and solutions. This webinar presents examples of early services that CSPs are launching around the world.
Enhance your partner ecosystems

Ecosystem Reference Architecture
Explore how value is created and exchanged within ecosystems, with insights into roles that the telco and its partners can play.

Concept to Reality Framework
From the business to the technology, learn from real world examples.

Zero Touch Partnering for Open Gateway
Discover how Zero Touch Partnering and Open Gateway APIs can help you automate the partner lifecycle.
Catalyst projects
See where industry trailblazers are shaking up the status quo with high‑impact Catalyst projects, co‑creating bold solutions that ignite real transformation across the telecom ecosystem.

Value driven agentic AI marketplace for mega events
Orchestrating mega-event connectivity at machine speed through an agentic AI marketplace.

Smart financial digital corridor phase iii
Universal Access through fintech powered by satcom and telecom networks unified by Agentic AI

Spatial Web: Open gateway to the immersive future
Pioneering a new protocol for the spatial web, enabling 'Spatial Web Nodes' as a managed service.

Autonomous and sustainable moving IOT ecosystems at scale
Developing an AI-powered, intent-driven platform that unifies autonomous service management, predictive analytics, sustainability insights, and edge intelligence.

Robotic guide dog services
Introducing AI-native networks into robotic guide dog services for the visually impaired. Offloading complex inference workloads for greater affordability, longer battery life, and more reliable navigation and safety for users.

AI powered suppy chain with satellite-mobile convergence
Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, distributed, and vulnerable to disruption. This project demonstrates how combining terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks with advanced AI can help.
Get involved
Help to accelerate the ability of our members to design, plan, operationalize and assure new market opportunities utilizing industry insights, best practices and tangible assets.

Get certified
Using industry best practices and the ecosystem modeling framework, this certification will enable you to understand how ecosystems are changing the fundamentals of the business world and introduces a common language, a way of thinking and a methodology to help you address the challenges and opportunities.
