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Sprint Increases Bid for Clearwire

Sprint calls this bid for the half of Clearwire it doesn't own its "best and final offer." ...read more

Is Big Data the Key to Combating Churn?

With operator revenues from their traditional business getting more and more unpredictable since the emergence of over-the-top players such as ...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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TIME WARNER, ACCUTEL CHOOSE COSTGUARD

Time Warner Communications of Rochester N.Y. and Fla.-based Accutel have independently selected InfoDirections' CostGuard software to rate, bill and support their respective customer bases. Time Warner switched from a billing service bureau to an in-house process with the ...More
September 1, 1998
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MIRCOSOFT TAPS PORTAL SOFTWARE

Microsoft Corporation has selected Portal's Infranet software for management of its online businesses. Implementation is scheduled for fall 1998 and is intended for the launch of subscription-based products in North America. Infranet is designed to enable clients to manage ...More
September 1, 1998
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BEECHWOOD LAUNCHES PARTNER PROGRAM

Beechwood, a Clark, N.J.-based systems development and consulting company announced a new partner program designed to expand its product and service offerings for telecom companies. Beechwood's partner companies will retain their own brands but work together on sales, ...More
September 1, 1998
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DYNTEL SELECETS CALL TECHNOLOGIES

DynTel Communications, a Washington D.C.-based CLEC, serving small to medium sized businesses, has chosen Call Technologies Inc.'s Call Courier software designed to provide messaging services for voice, fax and e-mail. These include call return, greetings, dial by name, ...More
September 1, 1998
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CONNOVA RECIEVES TWO

Sweden-based ConNova recently received orders from Teracom AB and Radiotjanst in Kiruna AB for systems designed for Swedish Digital Terrestrial transmissions. The orders values at seven million SEK ($885,000) and includes the Access Manager software system for conditional ...More
September 1, 1998
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LHS AND BELL ATLANTIC SIGN FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT

LHS and Bell Atlantic announced a global framework agreement under which Bell Atlantic and its global wireless investments will have access to BSCS products licensing and related maintenance and support services from LHS. Bell Atlantic stated that it has helped five of its ...More
September 1, 1998
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BT MOBILE SIGNS WITH CORSAIR

Corsair Communications, Inc. has signed a contract with BT Mobile to provide an integrated customer care, inventory management and billing system to the Leeds, UK-based paging service provider. Under the five million dollar three-year contract, Corsair will replace BT ...More
September 1, 1998
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HPS ACCESS7 DEPLOYED

Hewlett-Packard Company's (HP) announced that Bell Atlantic has deployed the HP acceSS7 business intelligence system. Bell Atlantic plans to use the system to provide employees with information about traffic on its network including fraud detection, usage billing and ...More
September 1, 1998
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INET TO GO PUBLIC, WINS CONTRACT

Inet Technologies, Inc. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock. The shares will be offered by an underwriting group managed by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Dain Rauscher ...More
September 1, 1998
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Fighting Fraud: Increased Uses for Billing Data

The estimate of expected losses due to telecommunications fraud in 1998 is more than $4.5 billion. Even though telecommunication companies have invested tens of millions of dollars in advanced systems and technology to improve fraud detection, the losses consistently ...More
September 1, 1998
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