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Report: AT&T Bid for Telefónica Rejected

The Spanish government reportedly blocked the deal because of the important role Telefónica plays in Spain's economy, strategically and symbolically. ...read more

You Just Video-Called a Contact Center

The proliferation of video and the "FaceTime effect" are impacting the way we do business. What about calling a vendor for support on a ...read more

May's Hottest Selling Smartphones

The iPhone is finally proving fallible, only remaining the top seller last month, among the major U.S. carriers, at AT&T. Our image gallery ...read more

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FIRSTLINK SELECTS INTASYS

Intasys Corporation has signed a contract, valued by Intasys at approximately $1.4 million over a four-year period, to provide convergent billing and customer care service to FirstLink Communications Inc. of Portland, Oregon, on a service bureau basis. FirstLink provides ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
KANBAY SELLS MINORITY TO SAFEGUARD SCIENTIFICS

Kanbay LLC, a Chicago-based IT consulting firm, has sold a minority interest to Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (SSI) a New York Stock Exchange Listed strategic information systems company. SSI is a partnership of entrepreneurial companies focused on IT markets. It has acquired ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
Why OSS Interconnection Isnt Happening?

The FCC believes local competition will flourish when ILEC-to-CLEC OSS interconnection becomes reality and also believes this is the key milestone to be met before the RBOCs are allowed into long-distance. The good news is that a milestone has been established. The bad ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
LHS TO PROVISION ITALIAN CONSORTIUM

LHS will provide its BSCS software to Wind Telecommunicazioni, a joint venture between Enel, the Italian electricity company, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom offering integrated fixed-mobile telecom services. The contract has a value of several million dollars. ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
An Interview with Robert Marino, President, Convergys

Billing World: The logical first place to start is to talk about the spin-off of Convergys (formerly Cincinnati Bell Information Services [CBIS]? And Matrixx Marketing) from Cincinnati Bell. The move--at least the CBIS part of it--had been widely rumored for years. What ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
WORLD ACCESS PURCHASES COSTGUARD

World Access, an emerging multinational carrier has purchased and installed Info Directions, Inc.'s (IDI) CostGuard. World Access plans to use CostGuard to rate, bill and support its rapidly growing network. Miami-based World Access is a facilities-based carrier that ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
CHECKFREE SIGNS TWO

Rosemead-based Southern California Edison (SCE), Spokane-based Washington Water Power (WWP) and CheckFree announced agreements whereby their customers will have the option of receiving and paying utility bills via the Internet. WWP and SCE will use CheckFree's E-Bill, ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
CandW AND IBM PARTNER

Cable & Wireless Communications announced a strategic IT partnership with IBM. Under a ten-year, $3 billion agreement, IBM will provide Cable & Wireless Communications the support required to significantly improve business efficiency and service to customers. The ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News
INTEGRETEL CHOOSES ICT GROUP

ICT Group has signed a contract to provide customer care and billing inquiry services for Integretel, of San Jose, California, which supplies billing services to the telecom industry. The Integretel contract is expected to generate more than $10 million over the three-year ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
KENAN AND CSC SUPPLY BILLING TO ICO, QUALCOMM

Kenan Systems has been awarded a contract by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to provide the billing and rating system for London-based ICO Global Communications. ICO is planning to have its global mobile communications network go live in September 2000, using 10 ...More
November 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing