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Sprint Increases Bid for Clearwire

Sprint calls this bid for the half of Clearwire it doesn't own its "best and final offer." ...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

Verizon, Comcast Post Strong Q1 Numbers

Verizon, CenturyLink and Comcast were among the U.S. communications giants that delivered strong first-quarter financial news to their customers and ...read more

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Linking Up Billing and Accounting Another Good Market for Vendors

Streamlined, standardized, integrated accounting is becoming a business objective for many telecommunications companies and a burgeoning market for software vendors. "In the past, financial systems were viewed more as overhead than as tools that enhance our ability to ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Billing World Financial Watch No News Is Good News for Billing Company Stocks

The market for billing and customer care is growing by leaps and bounds and will continue to do so through the year 2002, according to telecom market analysts. However, in the first quarter of 1998, there was not much company-specific activity to report. "No news is good ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Service Provisioning: New Demands and Current Capabilities

Telecommunications customers are becoming more demanding and have higher expectations of service delivery, including short lead time for both line and feature activation. To provide high levels of customer service, carriers must have integrated service activation systems to ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles
SUBSCRIBER INTRODUCES WIN-BASED SYSTEM

Subscriber Computing, Inc. (SCI) announced a new Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) based prepaid billing system, that uses Oracle's scalable RDBMS technology on a Sun Solaris platform. The new system is designed to offer prepaid services without requiring an additional ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
RUTGERS PARTNERS WITH THE BILLING COLLEGE

Rutgers University Office of Continuous Education and Outreach and the Billing College will conduct their first joint course at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus on May 4, 1998. The two parties announced a partnership to offer high-quality courses in telecommunications ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
T-NET ANNOUNCES TELETRACK

T-NET, a division of Cable & Wireless Inc. announced T-NET TeleTrack, a tracking system for resellers and aggregators. The system is designed to give carriers real-time access to critical automatic number identification (ANI), toll-free data and the ability to perform ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
NT Gaining Support as Microsoft Moves Forward

Microsoft Corp. has stepped up its multifaceted invasion of the telecommunications marketplace. Focused on leveraging its Internet experience as well as driving acceptance of its Windows NT server as a carrier-grade platform, the software giant is moving rapidly from the ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
LNP ORDERING ADDED TO METASOLVS TBS

MetaSolv Software announced version 3.1 of Telecom Business Solution (TBS) software product line. The upgrade is designed to enable service providers to manage the details of providing Local Number Portability-based services. The mechanism used by providers to order porting ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
CLAREMONT SELECTS SUMMA FOUR

Claremont Technology Group, a leading systems integrator, announced that it has selected Summa Four's virtual central office (VCO) series switches for integration into Claremont SystemXs convergent billing system. SystemX is a turnkey system based on Windows NT and ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in News
Growing Up with Operations Systems The evolutionary track of a typical telecom carrier offers a few surprises-and many cost saving tips

While many competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) may start small, they don't stay that way for long. And like the incumbent telecommunication carriers who came before them, CLECs have at their disposal an endless choice of sophisticated operations systems (OSs) to ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles