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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?

With operator revenues from their traditional business getting more and more unpredictable since the emergence of over-the-top players such as ...read more

The Top Cellphone Manufacturers

Are consumers finally turning against Apple? The maker of the iconic iPhone watched its customer-satisfaction score – according to the American ...read more

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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
Posted in Articles, Billing
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
Posted in News
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
Posted in News, Billing
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
Posted in News, Billing
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
Posted in News
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
Posted in News
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
Posted in News
Preparing for the Unknown The Role of Mediation Systems in Changing Networks

Self-proclaimed industry experts predict a shiny future when everything from voice to video to home shopping to financial services will be delivered over a single bandwidth pipe with nearly unlimited capacity. Don't throw out the phone or build an Ethernet LAN in your house ...More
September 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Electronic Bill Presentation and Payment- A Few Steps Down The Yellow Brick Road

Within the next eight to 12 months, consumers and small businesses en masse will be afforded the ability to both view and pay bills via the Internet though a variety of subtly differentiated methods, all of which are considered forms of electronic bill presentation and ...More
September 1, 1998
Posted in Articles
Meeting the Challenge of Wholesale Carrier Reconciliation

Automation of wholesale invoice auditing is a challenge facing telecom operators. Audits are necessary because 80 percent of the invoices are incorrect. Take for example the case of international calling, where the market has become a commodity and competition among the ...More
September 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing