• TELECORP LAUNCHES USING GTE AND CONVERGYS
    TeleCorp PCS Inc. will use GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. prepaid wireless system as part of its TDMA-based wireless service in Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. TeleCorp, one of AT&T Wireless’ lead affiliates, plans to launch the wireless service early this year. ...More
    January 1, 1999
    Posted in News, Billing
  • BEECHWOOD LAUCHES IP NETWORK OSS
    The new IP Network OSS Implementation Solution Set (ISS) is expected to help telecom companies implement OSSs needed to offer IP-based services more quickly and easily. The ISS is designed to provide services that give carriers an integrated approach to OSS in support of ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Banking Association Develops Electronic Bill Presentation Guidelines
    Telecom carriers and the banks are up to their necks in bill presentment and presentation issues. That is why many are attending the Bill Presentation Committee, part of the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), traditionally a banking trade association. ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles
  • IBS UPGRADES DIRECT ACCESS
    International Billing Services (IBS) customers can now access data on their statement-processing jobs via the Web. Direct Access 3.0, IBSs customer service tool, is now available via a secure web site. Direct Access is designed to provide tracing on the status of a print ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • CORSAIR UNVEILS UPGRADE
    PhonePrint 5.0, a software upgrade to Corsair’s fraud prevention system, is designed to use RF fingerprinting to authenticate legitimate users and disconnect cloned cellular phones. The new release features GUI, system performance and infrastructure improvements including ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Tackling Number Portability, Record Identification Challenges
    As industry standards-making groups approach 1999, they are busy developing guidelines to try to solve the problems that are cropping up due to local competition. Local number portability, record identification and exchange of customer usage information are but some of ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • NETREALITY INTRODUCES INTELLIGENT WISEWAN-CPE
    The WiseWAN suite of products are designed to provide remote access and analysis, SLA management and enforcement, troubleshooting and adaptive bandwidth shaping though one system. WiseWAN hardware configurations are designed to enable speeds of 56K to multiple T1 ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Will Billing and Customer Care Companies Weather Capital Contractions?
    Will billing, customer care and OSS companies continue to thrive in 1999, or will a worldwide capital contraction put a damper on the kind of growth these companies have seen in the past year? Pessimists and optimists from the financial community speak their minds, ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • KENAN INTRODUCES ARBOR/BROADBAND
    Arbor/Broadband, an integrated customer management and billing system designed for the global cable and satellite market, is intended to handle multiple combinations of service offerings, including video, voice and Internet/high-speed data services. Its core billing and ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • The Service Bureau Option: Jumpstart Billing
    Jumpstarting a telecommunications business or entering a new market is fraught with risk. Given the number of new carrier entrants into telecommunications the last few years, apparently the risk is not daunting enough. Billing is without question a key to entering new ...More
    December 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing