• Regulatory Watch
    FCC to appeal CPNI decision The Federal Communications Commission will fight to reinstate its rules restricting the use of customer proprietary network information (CPNI) after the regulations were shot down by a federal appeals court in Denver, FCC Chairman William Kennard ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • EDS TRAFFIC SYSTEM IN PRODUCTION
    EDS, a provider of management consulting and electronic business systems, recently announced that its Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) is now in production at Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W), an integrated communications provider. ITMS is designed to ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in News
  • An Interview with John Scott, Vice President, Digex
    According to research from The Yankee Group, the application service provider (ASP) market will grow to more than $11 billion in 2002. Undoubtedly, Web-hosting providers, like Digex, will play a big role. Digex provides Web site management for e-business sites, including ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Billing Strategies for the Application Service Provider Marketplace
    The considerable potential of the application service provider (ASP) marketplace has not gone unnoticed by industry analysts or technology companies. Forrester Research forecasts considerable growth for the entire application outsourcing industry, predicting it will exceed ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • The Risks of Going to Market Without a Billing Strategy
    Today giant carriers have two things in common from a billing perspective. They all have the same vision of being an end-to-end, 21st century IP carrier providing all network-centric applications. Second, they haven’t a clue as to how they are going to bill for these IP ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • DCA Releases EBPP
    DCA Services unveiled its electronic billing presentment and payment (EBPP) product, which is designed to let resellers electronically present bills to subscribers via an Internet browser interface in addition to paper and other delivery media. Users can view and pay bills ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in News
  • Financial Watch : Amdocs to Acquire ITDS
    Amdocs Limited and International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc. agreed for Amdocs to acquire ITDS for approximately $182 million in Amdocs shares. Under terms of the agreement, Amdocs will acquire all outstanding shares of ITDS in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Internet Self-Care—What to Consider
    In five years, chances are the 15-minute wait in a phone queue for customer service will be as antiquated as manual typewriters. Remember those? Ink ribbons, crumpled piles of paper, that chalky correction tape… But upgrading to Internet self-care is nowhere near as easy as ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Equinox Introduces Traffic Analysis System
    Equinox Information Systems recently released Manager 99, designed to help carriers provision and optimize their networks, manage reseller accounts, verify routing and billing, and reduce losses associated with poor network planning. The new system runs under Windows NT, ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in News, Billing
  • Choosing Your Path: From Electronic Stapling to True Convergence
    Carriers are spending billions to develop convergent billing. But as anyone who explores convergent billing discovers, various levels of consolidation are possible. Each level of operational support systems (OSS) integration has its own unique set of advantages and ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing