• 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