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Fortumo Teams with Telefónica, Telenor

Users in more than 30 countries will now be able to purchase digital goods over the Web and on Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone devices. ...read more

Is Big Data the Key to Combating Churn?

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Tax Jurisdictions Challenge Billiers

One of the least understood and most often neglected issues in billing and taxation is the assignment of accurate tax jurisdictions. For many businesses dealing with large geographic areas and multiple jurisdictions, assigning the correct tax jurisdiction is crucial to ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in Articles
PRINCETON ECOM CHOOSES SUN

Princeton eCom Corp., a provider of electronic billing systems, has selected Sun Microsystems Inc. servers to run its bill presentment and payment services over the Internet. The Oracle database and Sun’s mid-range Web servers are configured in a redundant architecture that ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News, Billing
APTIS RELEASES BILLING AND CUSTOMER CARE SUITE

Aptis Inc. a subsidiary of Billing Concepts Corp., announced its release of Aptis ICP, a software suite for billing and customer care. The software is designed to meet the needs of integrated communications providers, especially the CLEC market and VoIP companies, and to be ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News, Billing
TELEPACIFIC TO USE KENAN BILLING SYSTEM

TelePacific Communications, an integrated communications provider, will use Lucent’s Kenan Systems Arbor/BP billing system and the Arbor/OM order management product to streamline customer service by growing its back-office infrastructure, TelePacific officials said. The ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News, Billing
Large Systems Integration in a Multivendor Environment

The prepackaged solutions available in today’s billing and OSS market can achieve what would have been thought miraculous only several years ago. As recently as the early ’90s, many carriers with complex pricing, billing or product requirements still had to develop many of ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in Articles, Billing
ERICSSON, VISA PARTNER

Ericsson and Visa International recently signed an agreement to develop secure payment systems for purchasing goods and services over the Internet via a mobile terminal. The partnership will develop mobile e-commerce and drive open standards such as the WAP, Bluetooth, SET ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News
TELENISUS, ANDERSEN TEAM

Telenisus Corp., an e-business Internet systems provider, and Andersen Consulting will co-develop a network operations support system (OSS) that Telenisus will use for optimizing delivery and support. The OSS will be designed to integrate Telenisus’ network management and ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News
Paying the Sales Force: It’s Not as Easy as Signing a Check

One recent Friday, a leading East Coast CLEC had 22 out of 800 sales reps leave the company due to inaccurate and untimely commission payment, says the vendor that sold them a commissioning system the following Tuesday. According to the CLEC, the cost of training ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in Articles
WESTERN WIRELESS, VOICESTREAM SELECT AMDOCS

Western Wireless Corp., a U.S. cellular carrier, has recently signed an agreement with Amdocs to implement Amdocs’ Ensemble customer care and billing system. Amdocs is also providing Western with implementation and support services. VoiceStream, a U.S. GSM provider, has ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News
NARUS ANNOUNCES BMS UPGRADE

NARUS Inc., a provider of IP business infrastructure solutions, announced the availability of its Billing Mediation System (BMS) 1.5. The system is designed specifically for usage-based IP services. BMS 1.5 delivers information about network usage activity in real time to ...More
January 1, 2000
Posted in News, Billing