• AT&T UNISOURCE SELECTS CLARIFY
    Clarify, Inc., a provider of front office products, announced that AT&T-Unisource Communications Services is standardizing software for its international customer care center in the Netherlands with Clarify. AT&T Unisource is a pan-European telecommunications joint venture ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • A Pragmatic Approach to Quality Billing
    Customers expect their billing for any service to be perfect. So does the service provider. In the telecom industry, there are only three indicators of quality that the customer receives: price, actual service and the bill. The bill is the only physical representation of ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • AXIOM RELEASES FRAUD MANAGEMENT UPGRADE
    The Revenue Assurance Systems Division of Axiom Inc. introduced a new version of its Sterling 7000; a fraud management system designed to provide real-time and retrospective analysis of CDR and customer data. Release 3.0 features an enhanced client/server GUI, attribute ...More
    June 1, 1998
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  • ARCHITEL TO ACQUIRE ACCUGRAPH
    Architel Systems Corporation and Accugraph Corporation have entered into an agreement under which Architel will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Accugraph. Accugraph will amalgamate with a wholly owned subsidiary of Architel and each Accugraph Class A share will be ...More
    June 1, 1998
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  • Unix, Windows NT and AS/400 Machines Battle in Billing Area Platform Considerations Play a Role in Developing Product, Choosing Systems
    Options and choices-the communications billing industry has become full of them. Deregulation was intended to give end-users choices where once there were none; choices for services, prices, providers, technology... the list goes on. Providers themselves are awash in a ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • KENAN SIGNS THREE
    Kenan Systems Corporation announced that the Netherlands' NV kabletelevesie (Casema) has chosen Kenan's Unix-based Arbor/BP billing system, to provide multi service consolidated billing for its expansion into multiple communications services. Casema has introduced ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • ALLTEL AWARDED $200 MILLION CONTRACT
    Hughes Ipsat Ltd. (HIL), a consortium that plans to build and operate a wireless local loop telecommunications system serving Bombay, India, and the surrounding state of Maharashtra has awarded ALLTEL a $200 million contract. Alltel will provide business process consulting ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • The Economics of Billing: Maximizing the Value Equation
    "How can I maximize the value of the billing system to my business?" That is the question at the heart of billing economics and the question each carrier must answer on a daily basis. While many of the individual components appear simple, few carriers can accurately ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • LHS TO ACQUIRE INFOCELLULAR
    LHS Group Inc. and InfoCellular Inc. have signed a letter of intent for LHS to acquire InfoCellular for approximately $9.5 million in LHS stock. LHS is buying Infocellular to add its point of sale software to its current billing and customer care product offering. In other ...More
    June 1, 1998
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  • INDUSTRY GROUPS JOIN TO PETITION FCC
    CTIA, PCIA, USTA and TIA have joined to ask the FCC to resolve the dispute between the industry and the FBI over new wiretap requirements. The industry groups state that they are committed to assisting law enforcement agencies to carry out court-ordered wiretaps, but they ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News