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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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CENTILLION AND AT&T AGREE ON PATENT INFRINGEMENT

AT&T Corp. and Centillion Data Systems Inc. have settled their lawsuit involving two Centillion patents for a system and method of electronic billing analysis. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, AT&T obtained a paid-up license under the Centillion patents. The details of ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
MOSCOM PROPOSES NAME CHANGE

Moscom Corporation announced that its board of directors has approved changing the company's name to Veramark Technologies Inc. The name change will be submitted to shareholders for approval at the next annual meeting on May 14, 1998. If the name is approved, the company ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
SEMA ANNOUNCES ENHANCEMENT, SIGNS TWO

Sema Group announced an enhancement to its customer care and billing system CABS 2000. This enhancement is designed to support carriers using either the CIBER (Cellular Intercarrier Billing Exchange Record) or NAIG TAP (North American Interest Group Transferred Account ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
METAPATH ANNOUNCES CUSTOMER LOYALTY APP

Metapath Software Corporation announced the commercial availability of Ceer, its marketing and customer loyalty application, following its pilot evaluation by a wireless carrier. Ceer is designed to supply a Customer Experience Record, which contains data collected from ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
DECADE NINE RELEASES BILLING MEDIATION TOOLS

Decade Nine Plc. released its Data Management Workbench (DMW), a new product for telecom billing mediation. The DMW is a suite of Java software tools that are designed to manage telecom data, such as CDRs and traffic data. The DMW can also be used as a platform for ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Billing Vendor Benchmark Efforts Are Anything But Standardized Definitions, Methodologies, Philosophies for System Benchmarks often Vary from Vendor to Vendor

Bench'mark, n. A standardized problem or test that serves as a basis for evaluation or comparison (as of computer system performance) -Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition Maybe billing system vendors are using a different dictionary than the one provided ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
EHPT LAUNCHES INTERCONNECT SYSTEM

Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecommunications (EHPT) launched EHPT SETTLER, an interconnect application intended to boost telecom operators' profits and to control costs. Designed to give operators a commercial advantage through its ability to handle large incoming and ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
GENESYS NAMED FIRST DECss7 PROVIDER

The first application developer to use DECss7 for NT is Genesys Telecommun-ications Laboratories, a provider of virtual call centers and intelligent call routing systems. Its first application the Genesys Interaction Router, is designed to perform business routing of calls, ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
NEXTLINK, CELLULAR SOUTH SELECT SAVILLE

Saville Systems announced that NEXTLINK Communications, a CLEC, has selected Saville's Convergent Billing Platform (CBP) as its primary billing platform. NEXTLINK is facilities based and provides small and medium-sized businesses with integrated packages of local, long ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
CSG PROVISIONS PRIME CABLE

CSG Systems Inc. has signed an eight-year exclusive contract with Prime Cable of Las Vegas to provide its customer care and billing products including Communications Control System, CSG Advanced Customer Service Representative, CSG.Web and several financial services ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing