INTERACTION BETWEEN 5G AND NON-5G MANAGEMENT FUNCTION ENTITIES

A method of providing telecommunication communication services to a customer, comprising, at a network management function (MF) of a telecommunication service provider: receiving an order in accordance with an agreement as to terms of a telecommunications service offering; accessing network resources that satisfy the terms of the service offering; initializing an instance of the service offering using the resources accessible thereby, creating at least one interface by which the telecommunications service offering is made available to the customer; and exposing each of the at least one created interfaces to enable a network MF of the customer to use the telecommunication.service offering.