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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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CROSSKEYS SIGNS TWO, ALLIES WITH DIGITAL

CrossKeys Systems Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation have signed an agreement to jointly develop TeMIP (Telecommunications Management Information Platform)-based interfaces (access modules) to switches using Digital's Graphical ASCII Toolkit (GAT) and to ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
BT CHOOSES INET

Inet, Inc. was awarded an expansion contract from BT plc of the UK to increase the size of its GeoProbe Business and operations support system by more than 50 pecent. The system will manage significantly more of BT's SS7 network and support Usage Measurement Billing to ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
AMDOCS TO GO PUBLIC

Amdocs Limied announced that it filed with the Security and Exchange Commission a registration statement relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Ordinary Shares. Amdocs intends to offer 18 million shares at the range of $14 to $16 per share. In addition, a ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
DIRECTEL INSTALLS IN-TOUCH

Directel, a Dallas-based provider of alphanumeric and numeric paging services in Argentina and Brazil, has selected and installed the In-Touch II paging billing and management system from In-Touch Management Systems, Inc. In-Touch II is operational in Directel's Buenos ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
WILLIAMS IMPLEMENTS INTERTECH

Williams Communications, a wholesale CLEC, has implemented Intertech Management Group's Windows NT server-based Network Strategies billing and customer care system. Williams is running Network Strategies on two Compaq ProLiant 6500 series systems using Windows NT and ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
Billing World Publisher's Letter Local Number Portability or If You Build It, Will They Come?

Next to the Internet, nothing will have a more profound effect on plain old telephone service (POTS) by the year 2000 other than local number portability (LNP).Meanwhile brace yourself because the mass media is going to attack the telecom industry by highlighting the ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Market Time in Latin America

The Latin American marketplace is burgeoning with large populations concentrated in urban areas such as Sao Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Considering the low telecommunication penetration rate of about eight to nine main telephone lines per ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
HNC SOFTWARE ACQUIRES ATACS

HNC Software Inc., based in San Diego, announced it has acquired the ATACS product line from Bedford Associates of Conn. for an undisclosed amount. ATACS (advanced telecommunications abuse control system) is fraud management software for wireline, wireless and Internet ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
TCSI TEAMS WITH LUMOS, SNI

TCSI announced an agreement to incorporate Lumos' Element Access Server (EAS) product into TCSI's SolutionCore. SolutionCore is an integrated set of software components designed to build or upgrade Operations Support Systems (OSS). Lumos is a provider of network element ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
RUHUNA SELECTS IREDETO

Ruhuna 2001 Multivision Ltd., a pay TV operator based in Columbo, Sri Lanka, has signed a supply contract with Iredeto, a pay media technology company based in the Netherlands, for its Integrated Business System (IBS) to manage its customer care and billing. Ruhuna's ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News, Billing