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Fortumo Teams with Telefónica, Telenor

Users in more than 30 countries will now be able to purchase digital goods over the Web and on Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone devices. ...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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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
AXIOM ACQUIRES SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Axiom Inc. announced that it has purchased Greendown Software Ltd. (GSL), a privately held company based in Hampshire, England. GSL markets its product is under the name TERESA, specializes in fraud management software. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. GSL ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in News
ALLTEL CONVERTS GTE WIRELESS TO VITUOSO II

Alltel announced that it has converted 160,000 GTE Wireless customers located in GTE's Illinois and Iowa to the latest version of Alltel's Virtuoso II customer care and billing system. Virtuoso II developed in cooperation with GTE, is client/server-based and is designed to ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Combined Billing for Multinational Corporations

International telecom partnerships seem to promise the world to their customers, including a unified, consistent bill. But up until now none have been able to deliver timely, accurate bills in a consistent electronic format for all the telecom services ordered from all of a ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
ERICSSON LAUNCHES PREPAID FUNCTION FOR AMPS/D-AMPS

Ericsson launched a new network function called PrePaid Calling Service, which enables D-AMPS and AMPS mobile users to prepay air time and value-added services, as an integrated element of the network. In other news, Ericsson and the Norwegian telco Telenor signed a ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Billing World Financial Watch Billing Index Outperforms the Dow

In this raging bull market, the billing and customer care index (BACC) has far out performed all the major American stock indexes including the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and the Russell 2000. The BACC has grown by 26 percent since May 1997, surpassing the growth of the Dow during ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing