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Are 'Dumb Pipes' Real? Telstra Says No

"Owning the customer" is not necessarily a path to financial success. And over-the-top players are threats in some sectors, but for ...read more

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The proliferation of video and the "FaceTime effect" are impacting the way we do business. What about calling a vendor for support on a ...read more

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CBIS AND TMN OF PORTUGAL SIGN CONTRACT

CBIS and Telecomunicacoes Moveis Nacionais (TMN), a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom, signed a five-year contract for the CBIS Advantage customer care and billing system. CBIS Advantage is designed as a new-generation, real-time wireless billing and administration system for ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
TELEGROUP SELECTS SAVILLE

Telegroup, Inc., a global alternative provider of long distance services, selected Saville Systems' Convergent Billing Platform (CBP) to support its future growth. Telegroup is the first customer to implement CBP upgrade for its Oracle-based system, which is built on a UNIX ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Billing World, DMR Consulting Group Report on Billing System Functionality Due Out in March Project Seeks to Provide Telephony Carriers, Resellers With a Head Start for Choosing a Vendor

In March 1997 the first annual Billing World magazine report on billing system functionality will become available. The report, created in conjunction with DMR Consulting Group, will list vital features and other pertinent data for 20 vendors, each offering an off-the-shelf ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
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
Posted in News
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