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Ericsson, Accenture Named Tops in TOMS

Gartner says the TOMS market became more concentrated in 2012, with the top 20 vendors accounting for about 58 percent of total revenue, up from 56 ...read more

Keep an Eye On Your Network

Hopefully Brazil’s 4G networks will be ready to support the, because next month, the Confederations Cup, the first of three massive sporting events ...read more

Verizon, Comcast Post Strong Q1 Numbers

Verizon, CenturyLink and Comcast were among the U.S. communications giants that delivered strong first-quarter financial news to their customers and ...read more

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SITEL EXTENDS RELATIONSHIP WITH COMPAQ

SITEL Corp. announced the signing of a three-year agreement with COMPAQ Computer Colombia to provide CRM service applications and technical support services to COMPAQ’s corporate and consumer customers in Colombia. SITEL will oversee the operations from COMPAQ’s CRM center ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News
YAHOO TEAMS WITH CHECKFREE

Through a contract CheckFree Corp. is helping Yahoo offer Yahoo Bill Pay, a service designed to allow users to securely pay bills through the Internet. The service will use the Secure Socket Layer security standard and will be priced to users at $2 a month and $0.40 a ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News
JUST IN TIME, SIGNIO PARTNER

Signio (formerly PaymentNet) will provide an out-of-the-box payment processing system to Just in Time Solutions’ (JITS) customers. JITS is a provider of Internet billing and interactive customer care software systems. The integration of Signio’s Payflow payment platform ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News, Billing
BELL ATLANTIC TO MERGE WHOLESALE ORGANIZATIONS

In a reorganization intended to provide a single point of contact to other carriers, Bell Atlantic has merged it Carrier Services and Telecom Industry Services (TIS) groups. The two units were part of the company’s Network Services organization. Carrier Services provides ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News
Alltel, Convergys Settle Billing Contract Dispute

They said they wouldn’t settle out of court, but that’s exactly what Convergys and Alltel Communications did in September. After months of legal wrestling, Alltel agreed to pay Convergys $55 million for the right to bill its own customers, to get out of a contract it had ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in Articles, Billing
ACCESS COALITION WOULD BOOST SUBSCRIBER LINE CHARGE

A coalition of IXCs and ILECs with a plan to reform access charges would boost revenue from the subscriber line charge (SLC) assessed on primary residential lines by 75 percent over five years, from $4 billion to $7.1 billion. The Coalition for Affordable Local and Long ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News
TSS CHOOSES KINGTON-SCL

Kingston-SCL (KSCL), a provider of telecom management systems, announced that German cable telecom operator TSS will outsource its billing requirements to KSCL’s Jupiter-based bureau billing system managed by debis Systemhaus, a strategic business partner of KSCL for more ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News, Billing
Alltel Modernizes AMA Polling Platform

Alltel Information Services went shopping for a mediation partner for its massive automated messaging accounting project, rather than build its own mediation system. Although a company official hinted in September 1998 that Alltel might build the mediation system itself, ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in Articles, Billing
OBJECTSWITCH INTRODUCES HP 9000 V-CLASS ENTERPRISE SERVER

ObjectSwitch Corp., a provider of network-resident telecommunication, IT and Internet integration server software, has released the ObjectSwitch 3 Server product line available for HP 9000 V-Class, N-Class and K-Class PA-RISC enterprise servers running HP-UX 11.00. ...More
November 1, 1999
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AT&T RENEWS WITH EDS

EDS has renewed a longstanding agreement to provide clearing and settlement services of roaming calls for AT&T Wireless Services. EDS has provided clearing services for AT&T since 1988. EDS’ intercarrier clearinghouse helps provide revenue management, data integrity and ...More
November 1, 1999
Posted in News