iBasis Goes Live With RateIntegration’s Advanced Rating Server

iBasis, an international long-distance carrier and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and enhanced services for mobile operators, selected and implemented RateIntegration’s Advanced Rating Server (ARS 3.0) software to provide a comprehensive real-time rating and margin analysis solution that leverages its existing business support systems.

iBasis will use ARS 3.0 to support customer and partner billing and settlement processes for over 4,000 carrier-customers and vendors throughout the world. In addition, ARS 3.0’s high-performance processing will enable flexible real-time margin reporting and revenue analysis for iBasis’ business analysts.

Paul Floyd, senior vice president of Global Products, Network and Systems at iBasis, said the RateIntegration solution stood out as the right solution because of its powerful combination of scaleable processing and proven robustness as a stand-alone system. The systems also enabled the company to implement quickly, leverage our existing systems and processes, and put in place a system with very low total cost of ownership.

ARS 3.0 introduces a new BSS architecture into the industry that enables flexible pricing and cost computations and that supports the delivery of rated information in real-time for back-end billing, margin reporting, and revenue analysis.

Having completed a merger with KPN Wholesale in late 2007, iBasis is established as one of the three largest international wholesale voice carriers in the world, carrying approximately 24 billion minutes in 2007. Growth rates in CDRs have exceeded 25 percent per year and are anticipated to grow at or beyond this pace into the future.