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Ericsson, NSN Intro Wi-Fi Products

At CTIA 2013 this week in Las Vegas, Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson unveiled products that offer traffic-steering capabilities between Wi-Fi and ...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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Microsoft NT Makes its Move on Telecom IN

Microsoft Corporation had its telecommunications coming-out party in June of '97 when it announced an alliance with SS7 software supplier DGM&S Telecom. The IT world's 9 billion pound gorilla sees potentially enormous markets for its NT Servers in customer self-service ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in Articles
TELMEX ORDERS ACE*COMM; ACE*COMM APPOINTS CFO

ACE*COMM Corporation received a new $1 million order from Telefonos de Mexico (TELMEX) for DCMS and DCMS*PLUS systems. TELMEX purchase was designed to provide redundancy upgrades for switch billing data for 20 local and 20 long distance switches. Data General Corporation ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Billing World Financial News Jefferies Releases First Telecom Billing and Customer Care Company Index

Jefferies & Company has released the first ever financial index of telecom billing and customer care companies. The index, which measures the financial health of 23 publicly-held billing and customer care companies, will be published monthly exclusively in Billing World. ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
Billing World Publisher's Letter Top 10 Convergence Billing Opportunities for 1998

There will be many new and exciting events for 1998 in the telecommunications industry, but none will capture the attention of corporate America and consumers more than the new services created by network convergence. Nevertheless, these services will be meaningless to the ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
SEMA GROUP LAUNCHES BILLING SERVICE BUREAU

Sema Group has launched a customer care and billing service bureau for wireless network operators in the United States. The service bureau is operated entirely by Sema Group Telecoms and uses Sema's CABS 2000 product. ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
HP SS7 HELPS SOUTHWESTERN BELL

Hewlett-Packard Company has completed installation of the HP acceSS7 network monitoring system across Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's (SWBT) entire SS7 network. The implementation, which took 12 months to complete, is designed to help SWBT ensure the integrity of its ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News
CABLEDATA AND TIME WARNER RENEW CONTRACT

CableData Inc. and Time Warner Cable's Eastern Pennsylvania Division renewed their customer management and billing contract. The three-year agreement extends the Time Warner operation's use of CableData's DDP/SQL system to serve its 150,000 subscribers in eastern ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News
Putting Revenue Assurance into Practice

The term "revenue shortfall" is perhaps the most dreaded term in financial circles of telecommunications companies. If actual revenue results fall short of budgeted expectations, the billing system becomes fair game for blame. Unless revenue drivers, volumes and key process ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in Articles
ILLUMINET ANNOUNCES LNP SERVICE BUREAU

Illuminet announced that it has completed testing necessary to connect to Lockheed Martin's Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) in the mid-Atlantic region (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia). ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News
CIBERNET SELECTED AS WIRELESS FINANCIAL CLEARING HOUSE

The Cellular Operators Association of India has named London-based Cibernet, Plc., as the preferred financial clearinghouse for its 27 members. Each cellular operator will make one local currency payment each month to Cibernet, which will then disburse payments, in ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in News