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Subex Tops Gartner's Rev. Assurance List

Analyst firm Gartner has ranked BSS provider Subex as the market leader in revenue assurance and fraud management for the third consecutive year, ...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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CYBERCASH, ICVERIFY PLAN TO MERGE

CyberCash, Inc. and ICVERIFY Inc. have reached an agreement to merge the two companies. The shareholders of ICVERIFY will receive $16 million in cash and 2.3 million shares of CyberCash common stock. CyberCash's Internet offerings will be integrated with ICVERIFY's physical ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
ERICSSON AND ORGA TEAM

Ericsson Radio Systems and ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH have signed an agreement under which Ericsson will integrate ORGA's "hot billing" prepaid system for GSM into Ericsson's pre-paid service offerings. The prepaid system uses the mobile network's existing processing subsystem ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
OMNITRONIX INTRODUCES SNMP-LINK

Hardware manufacturer Omnitronix is now offering a new hardware tool for network administrators-SNMP-Link Network Management Proxy Agent, designed to help implement and extend the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The SNMP-Link functions essentially as a protocol ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
MARCUS UTILITIZES CABLEDATAS STARGATE

CableData and Marcus Cable, the nation's 10th largest MSO, announced the launch of Marcus' data warehouse implementation, using CableData's StarGateSM. StarGate is a marketing and operational tool designed to enhance the analysis of customer data extracted from its DDP/SQL ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
ALLSTATE SELECTS GERS

San Diego-based Allstate Cellular and Communication has purchased GERS Retail Systems' Sequel System. Allstate is using GERS' Batch Bar Coding, Sequel Flash, Serial Number Tracking, Point-of-Sale and Sequel Mail modules designed to simplify daily retail operations. Allstate ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
Billing World Standards Watch Access Billing and Customer Account Systems to Change

Long distance carriers must now pay different fees to LECs for local access using new formulas and calculations, according to FCC mandate and subsequent new guidelines from the Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF). Now, long distance companies will pay LECs a per minute fee, ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
ICG TELECOM GROUP SELECTS IBM

IBM announced that ICG Telecom Group has chosen its Integrated Customer Management System (ICMS) customer management and billing system. ICG Telecom Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICG Communications with more than 186,000 voice lines in service. In addition, IBM will ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
CORSAIR TO ACQUIRE SUBSCRIBER COMPUTING

Corsair Communications Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Subscriber Computing Inc., a privately held supplier of software systems to the wireless industry. Upon completion of the acquisition, Corsair will issue to Subscriber shareholders shares of Corsair ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
ILLUMINET MAKES GAINS

ILLUMINET announced that Allegan Cellular L.P., Cellular Plus, Cellular XL Associates L.P., Illinois Valley Cellular and Union Cellular have signed contracts for Authentix's Roamer Verification and Reinstatement (RVR) services. RVR is designed to provide economical roamer ...More
June 1, 1998
Posted in News
Billing World Standards Watch A Hot Number: 877 Toll Free Implementation

From 1967 to 1996, a span of almost 30 years, the demand for toll free resources was satisfied within the parameters of one NPA- 800 NXX-XXXX. As the 800 toll free resources approached depletion, the 888 NPA was rolled out on March 1, 1996. Now, approximately two years ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing