• 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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