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CSG Systems International (CSGS)

Amdocs's closest US-listed pure-play in communications BSS — real-time revenue management, digital monetization and customer engagement for the same tier-1 operators. It is the one peer that names Amdocs directly in its 10-K, and in October 2025 it agreed to be acquired by NEC, parent of Netcracker (another named Amdocs rival) — a deal that would consolidate two of Amdocs's stated competitors under one owner.

CSG's Item 1 'Competition' section names Amdocs Limited first among its rivals — grouping Amdocs (with NEC Netcracker) as the 'on-premise bespoke custom' incumbents it competes against in revenue management and digital monetization, while casting itself as the cloud/SaaS challenger. The clearest instance of a peer putting the subject on the page by name.

The market for our offerings is competitive and evolving. We compete with both independent providers and in-house developers of revenue management, digital monetization customer experience, and payments systems. Our current competitors include companies who deliver on-premise bespoke custom offerings (i.e., Amdocs Limited, NEC Netcracker), software solutions (i.e., Salesforce, Adobe, Pegasystems, Twilio), internally developed enterprise applications, network operators (i.e., Ericsson, Huawei), cloud based vendors (i.e., Aria, Zuora, Salesforce), large outsourced transactional communications companies (i.e., Intrado, Genesys), systems integrators (i.e., Accenture, Tech Mahindra), large payments processors (i.e., FIS, Chase Payment Solutions), payments specialists (i.e., Stripe, Square), and niche players (i.e., Paymentus, Invoice Cloud).

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CSG's own description of the product overlap with Amdocs: real-time revenue-management and configurable business support systems that monetize the customer lifecycle for Communication Service Providers — the billing, charging and monetization domain Amdocs sells into.

We provide robust, integrated real-time revenue management platforms leveraging public cloud, private cloud, or on premise deployments to optimize and monetize transactions at every stage of the customer lifecycle. Our flexible, configurable business support systems help companies be more profitable because they sell, engage, and monetize better with CSG integrated, domain specific technology. […] For Communication Service Providers ("CSPs"), it provides new revenue sources beyond connectivity, information, and communications services. […] We enable companies to bring new services to market with hyper speed and scale with our revenue management platforms which are key to growing revenue and profits in a digital world.

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CSG's customer roster overlaps Amdocs's at the tier-1 level — it lists Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Charter, América Móvil and Telstra among its CSP customers, the same operator accounts Amdocs serves.

We work with some of the world’s leading brands in a wide variety of industry verticals, including leading CSPs like Charter, Comcast, MTN, Airtel Africa, DISH, Mobily, Verizon, AT&T, American Movil, and Telstra.

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Cerillion plc (CER)

A UK-listed pure-play BSS/OSS vendor (billing, charging, CRM) that sells a pre-integrated, product-based SaaS stack to telecom operators as the nimble, standardized alternative to large custom-integration incumbents like Amdocs. It competes in the same Gartner CSP revenue-management and monetization categories, at a fraction of Amdocs's scale.

Cerillion reports a record £47.6m of new orders — headlined by its largest-ever win, onboarding a European operator's newly acquired tier-1 mobile base for £25.3m over five years — plus a new Armenian carrier (Ucom) and a record £275m pipeline: a small rival winning CSP billing estate that incumbents like Amdocs would target.

in the year under review we signed a record value of new orders at £47.6m. This is c.25% higher than the prior financial year and included our most substantial win in the Company’s history to date which was with an existing European customer to on-board its newly acquired tier-1 mobile customer base. This composite deal, agreed in two stages, is worth a total of £25.3m over five years. We also secured a major new customer in Ucom, a leading provider of telecommunications services in Armenia. […] the total, unweighted value of this pipeline stood at £275m (2024: £262m), a new high.

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Cerillion's analyst positioning maps directly onto Amdocs's categories: it cites inclusion in Gartner's Market Guides for CSP Revenue Management and Monetization and for CSP Customer Management, and a Major Player rating in IDC's telecom customer-experience MarketScape.

Earlier in the year, Cerillion was also included as a Representative Vendor in the “Gartner Market Guide for CSP Customer Management and Experience Solutions”, published in June, and in March, we were included in the “Gartner Market Guide for CSP Revenue Management and Monetization Solutions”. […] We were also delighted to be named as a Major Player in the “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Customer Experience Platforms for Telecommunications 2025 Vendor Assessment” (doc # US52580525, August 2025).

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Oracle Corporation (ORCL)

Through Oracle Communications and its cloud applications on OCI, Oracle targets the communications vertical and is pulling carrier customer-experience and workload spend onto its own cloud — the platform layer Amdocs increasingly competes for as BSS/OSS migrates to hyperscaler cloud. Oracle is a diversified giant; only the communications and cloud-apps overlap is featured here.

Oracle lists communications among the industries its cloud applications target, and argues its breadth is the differentiator against rivals 'that offer more limited or specialized applications' — the suite-versus-specialist pitch that pressures focused BSS/OSS vendors like Amdocs as CSP software moves to cloud.

In addition, we offer several cloud-based industry solutions to address specific customer needs within certain industries including communications, construction and engineering, education, financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, utilities and retail, among others. […] We believe that the comprehensiveness and breadth of our cloud applications offerings differentiate us from many of our competitors that offer more limited or specialized applications.

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Oracle's own competitor set is the enterprise-software and hyperscaler giants — SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet — not telecom-billing specialists, a reminder that Amdocs's cloud/SaaS shift runs into diversified platform companies fighting on a far wider front.

Our enterprise cloud, software and hardware offerings compete directly with certain offerings from some of the largest and most competitive companies in the world, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Salesforce, Inc. and SAP SE, as well as other companies like Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Workday, Inc.

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On its Q2 FY2026 call Oracle details telecom wins on OCI, including a five-year TIM Brasil expansion where AI agents 'compare bills for customers across months' and explain variations — customer-care and bill-explanation use cases squarely inside Amdocs's BSS and managed-services turf.

Oracle management, Q2 FY2026 earnings call: In communications, the communications industry, Digital Bridge Holdings selected ERP and SCM. […] TIM Brasil, who is the country's five-g leader, just signed a new five-year expansion to accelerate AI adoption and to transform customer experience at scale, all built on OCI. […] they're now building AI agents that are powering real customer interactions, including the content agent which compares bills for customers across months, and explains variations automatically.

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Ericsson (ERIC)

Ericsson's Digital Services / monetization software, its network-API business and Vonage collide with Amdocs's monetization/BSS and network-API offerings to carriers. Its own read on where telecom growth is — and is not — frames the maturity of Amdocs's core CSP market. No Ericsson annual report was available; exhibits are from FY2026 earnings calls.

Ericsson's CEO tells investors that growth 'will come in areas outside of our traditional CSP markets' — enterprise and mission-critical networks — a candid read on the maturity of the carrier market that is Amdocs's core customer base.

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO: We believe the growth will come in areas outside of our traditional CSP markets. And then we’re talking about areas like enterprise and mission critical networks.

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Ericsson frames its strategy around exposing network capabilities to developers and capturing 'a greater share of the value from connectivity' — the 5G/network-API monetization layer that overlaps Amdocs's monetization and network-API offerings to operators.

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO: This includes exposing network capabilities through network-powered solutions, allowing developers to use the network capabilities to create new use cases. It also includes opening up new addressable markets such as enterprise solutions based on cellular technology and mission-critical networks. And this will allow us to capture a greater share of the value from connectivity and drive mid-single-digit growth for Ericsson while achieving our long-term margin targets of 15% to 18%.

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Ericsson's CEO concedes that Vonage — its communications-platform, network-API and enterprise-monetization asset, the vehicle most directly competing with Amdocs's monetization ambitions — 'has not been contributing' and is a multi-year turnaround.

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO (Q&A): You all know the business of Vonage has not been contributing. We put in place a plan to change the trajectory of that business that we're executing upon. It will take a little bit more time, you will start to see improved performance in the reported numbers. […] Clearly, the ambition is here to turn this around and make it value accreting in the future.

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Tech Mahindra (TECHM)

A telecom-heavy IT-services firm whose Communications vertical and Comviva BSS/mobility-software unit compete with Amdocs on network transformation, systems integration and managed services — including the multi-hundred-million-dollar CSP modernization deals Amdocs bids for. This is the services-and-SI side of Amdocs's competition rather than packaged BSS.

Tech Mahindra's MD & CEO on a >$500m, five-year European telco 'mega deal' — a comprehensive applications modernization spanning the CIO and CTO domains — exactly the multi-year CSP transformation engagement Amdocs competes for on the services side.

Mohit Joshi, Managing Director & CEO: This is a strategic engagement with a leading European telco, one of the largest wins in the company's history, with a total contract value exceeding $500 million over five years. This multi-year partnership is about a comprehensive modernization of the client's application across both the CIO and the CTO domains, aimed at accelerating innovation, strengthening digital resilience, and achieving AI-led operational efficiencies enabled by our deep domain expertise and proven transformation capabilities. This win further strengthens our leadership position within the telecom vertical.

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Tech Mahindra quantifies its Communications vertical (up 2.6% year-on-year) and calls out Comviva — its telecom BSS and mobility-software unit — growing double digits for a second year, the product line most directly overlapping Amdocs's BSS.

Mohit Joshi, Managing Director & CEO: Within Communications, we grew 2.6% year-on-year. This was led by stabilization and increased spend from our largest US client. Comviva also grew double digits for the second year, adding to the momentum.

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Tech Mahindra's telecom offering as it describes it — helping communications providers move 'from delivering connectivity to orchestrating platforms, services, and outcomes,' with a portfolio spanning CX platforms, autonomous networks and 'Ecosystem Platforms and Monetisation' that maps onto Amdocs's BSS/CX and monetization stack.

We help communications providers move beyond traditional networks to unlock new value, integrating technology, ecosystems, and experiences. By transforming networks, IT, and operations into intelligent systems, we enable a shift from delivering connectivity to orchestrating platforms, services, and outcomes across the full spectrum of business, human, and technology ecosystems. […] Agentic CX and EX I Digital Consumer and Experience Platforms I Autonomous Networks I Digital Cloud and Infrastructure I Connected Enterprise I Ecosystem Platforms and Monetisation I AI @ Core

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Competitors

CSG Systems International (CSGS)

Cerillion plc (CER)

Oracle Corporation (ORCL)

Ericsson (ERIC)

Tech Mahindra (TECHM)

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