• LHS, BULL AND SOFRECOM PARTNER
    LHS, Bull and Sofrecom announced that satellite operator Telecommunications par Satellites Mobiles of France, has selected the LHS product BSCS, based on the Sofrecom meditation device FCC, to provide billing and customer care and consulting services for telecommunications ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • CSG SIGNS RENAISSANCE
    CSG Systems Inc. has signed an exclusive multiyear contract with Renaissance Media LLC, under which CSG's Communications Control System (CCS) for customer care and billing will serve 125,000 customers. Renaissance, which is based in New York State, will also use CSG's ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News
  • DOBSON, DTI TO LICENSE HOCIMS
    H.O. Software Inc. announced that Douglas Telecommunications Inc. (DTI) and Dobson Communications Inc. have agreed to license its HCIMS customer care and billing software for their cellular networks. The new systems will be put in place by September 1998. Based in San ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • EXCELL AND TELSTRA LAUNCH VENTURE
    Excell Global Services, L.L.C., a call center services provider in North America and Europe, has entered into a joint agreement with Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, to service the Asia Pacific region's rapidly growing $1.8-billion call center ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News
  • SLP ALLIES WITH HP, SIGNED BY MOBISTAR
    SLP InfoWare, Inc. announced that Mobistar, Belgium's second largest GSM provider with a 30 percent market share, has selected SLP's Churn/Customer Profiling System, which is designed to minimize subscriber churn and maximize customer lifetime value. Churn/CPS is an ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News
  • CYBERCASH AND EEI TEAM
    CyberCash, Inc. and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) announced an agreement to provide EEI members the option of incorporating CyberCash's PayNow electronic check service into their billing strategies at a significant discount. The PayNow program is designed to allow ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News
  • AETHOS WINS THREE
    Aethos Communications Systems announced three contract wins to deploy its Aethos Service Node (SN) and Aethos Service Support System (SNSS), a hardware and software wireless prepayment system in Europe. Telenor Mobil Radiomobil of Norway, Libertel B.V. of the Netherlands ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Standards Watch : Unbundled Network Element Standards Inch Forward
    Processes for ordering and billing unbundled network elements (UNEs) between the RBOCs and CLECs continue to be hammered out in the Ordering and Billing Forum's (OBF) Billing and Ordering and Provisioning (O&P) committees. Reflecting the political nature of these ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • AN INTERVIEW WITH....RANDY LINTECUM
    The subject of this month's interview is Randy Lintecum, president of International Billing Services (IBS). IBS, along with billing software vendor CableData, is a subsidiary of USCS International. IBS, unquestionably the dominant player in the statement processing market, ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • LOGICA AND LHS PARTNER
    Logica announced a $5.5 million dollar contract to provide a convergent billing system for Iusacell, an independent cellular operator in Mexico and an affiliate of Bell Atlantic Corporation. Logica partnered with LHS Group, Inc. to secure the contract. Acting as the systems ...More
    July 8, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing