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04/06/2011

ILEC Business in the Balance: The Case for Probe-Based Traffic Monitoring

Every carrier is a duck on a fencepost if they rely on exchange record or switch data alone for source billing data. Today carriers must defend their networks against exchange record billing data errors.
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03/29/2011

Revenue Assurance Expert Opinions: A Book Review

Sadly, most telecom books are fairly tedious because the authors don’t think enough about guiding the reader along. This book is different.
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03/28/2011

Gandhi the Marketer: Zoho Strikes for Independence from the IT Empire

Zoho’s original claim to fame is WebNMS, but in the last few years the company has also expanded into system, application management, and helpdesk software in the IT market.
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03/24/2011

Pumping Gold Through Dumb Pipes: Creating Value Streams for Over-The-Top Partners

As the over-the-top app players fill up the wireless broadband pipe and extract greater and greater revenues from users, the fear is that telco margins could be squeezed to the point where it’s no longer profitable for CSPs to upgrade their networks.
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02/28/2011

Can Revenue Assurance Pioneers Survive the Age of Analytics?

Revenue assurance expert Eric Priezkalns muses on the history of RA, points to a dangerous divide in the RA profession, and offers hope for a more exciting and expansive role for RA practitioners who play their cards right.
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02/10/2011

A Cynic Converted: IN/Prepaid Platforms Are Now Pretty Cool

Plenty of under-the-covers innovation is happening in the IN platform space these days.
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01/17/2011

Achieving Revenue Maximization in the Telecom Contact Center

Optimizing the contact center offers one of the greatest returns on investment for a telco.
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