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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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CYBERCASH PATNERS WITH PANDESIC

CyberCash, Inc., announced it would provision payment options for Pandesic LLC, the Internet company subsidiary of Intel and SAP. The partnership is designed to provide the users of Pandesic with a complete end-to-end Internet payment system with secure, real-time ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News
JUST IN TIME, CHECKFREE ENTER MARKETING AGREEMENT

Just in Time Solutions has joined CheckFree's E-Bill Partner Program and has entered into a joint marketing agreement with CheckFree. The E-Bill Partner Program is designed to allow billers, banks and other financial institutions the ability to offer customers online ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
SUBSCRIBER INSTALLS SYSTEM FOR CELLPAGE

Subscriber Computing, Inc., (SCI) announced a contract with Cellpage, Puerto Rico's second largest paging carrier, to provide its integrated customer management and billing system, Communications Resource Manager (CRM). The contract is valued at more than $1 million. ...More
February 1, 1998
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Billing World Standards Watch Cibernet Formulates Near Real-time Billing Settlement Standard

A new wireless billing standard for roaming is hot off the press. The Non-Signaling Data Protocol for Billing and Settlement (NSDPB&S), which was developed by Cibernet in cooperation with industry experts, is designed to facilitate the exchange of billing data near ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Wireless Carriers Wrestle With Local Number Portability Issues

The ins and outs of local number portability (LNP) can get pretty confusing. Sit in on just about any conference session that addresses this topic and you'll find baffled attendees trying to make sense of location routing numbers, global title translations, NPA-NXXs, ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Managing the Transition Period from Old to New Billing Systems

Why is the transition from one billing system to another so difficult? To the uninitiated the process is a simple one. It involves the straightforward extraction of data from one database, translation to a new database structure and importation of the data to a new ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
AMDOCS INTRODUCES INTERNET CUSTOMER CARE PRODUCT

Amdocs, an international provider of customer care and billing systems, announced the availability of 'WWW.Telecom.customer', an Internet software product designed for self service customer care. The product is designed for both wireless and wireline carriers of any size, ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
AXIOM INTRODUCES UPGRADE

Axiom, Inc., added a module called Sterling 5005 for transaction data access and reporting to its Sterling Solution line of billing data collection and processing systems. The Sterling 5005 is designed to gather application specific data from the host collector via an 802.3 ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
ACE*COMM PARNERS WITH IBM, SIGNS KMC Telecom

ACE*COMM Corporation announced the formation of a partnership under IBM's Business Partner Program, which is intended to accelerate the delivery of ACE*COMM's Network Usage Management systems. ACE*COMM's products support IBM products in the collection and delivery of ...More
February 1, 1998
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XEROX ANNOUNES NEW HIGH SPEED DOCUMENT PRODUCTION TOOL

Xerox Corporation announced that Output Technologies based in Kansas City, Mo., is acquiring Xerox's DataGlyph technology. DataGlyph is designed to produce high-speed production of business critical documents with 100 percent package integrity. Output is acquiring more than ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News