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HPS ACCESS7 DEPLOYED

Hewlett-Packard Company's (HP) announced that Bell Atlantic has deployed the HP acceSS7 business intelligence system. Bell Atlantic plans to use the system to provide employees with information about traffic on its network including fraud detection, usage billing and ...More
September 1, 1998
Posted in News, Billing
Billing World Publisher's Letter Local Number Portability or If You Build It, Will They Come?

Next to the Internet, nothing will have a more profound effect on plain old telephone service (POTS) by the year 2000 other than local number portability (LNP).Meanwhile brace yourself because the mass media is going to attack the telecom industry by highlighting the ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
CSG SIGNS RENAISSANCE

CSG Systems Inc. has signed an exclusive multiyear contract with Renaissance Media LLC, under which CSG's Communications Control System (CCS) for customer care and billing will serve 125,000 customers. Renaissance, which is based in New York State, will also use CSG's ...More
July 8, 1998
Posted in News
Growing Up with Operations Systems The evolutionary track of a typical telecom carrier offers a few surprises-and many cost saving tips

While many competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) may start small, they don't stay that way for long. And like the incumbent telecommunication carriers who came before them, CLECs have at their disposal an endless choice of sophisticated operations systems (OSs) to ...More
May 1, 1998
Posted in Articles
FRONTIER SIGNS LNP CONTRACT WITH ILLUMINET

Illuminet announced that Frontier Corporation, a domestic and international long distance phone company, has signed a contract with Illuminet for local number portability (LNP) services. Frontier serves more than one million local access lines and is the fifth largest long ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in News
Billing for Cellular, Local and Long Distance:Ready for Prime Time? Third Parties Preparing To Put Their Systems Where Their Marketing Is

Even in the days when deregulation of the telecommunications industry was still a distant dream, forward-thinking service providers talked of one-stop shopping. But with the 20th century nearing an end, there are still few instances in North America where the telephony ...More
April 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
The New Frontier: Growing Opportunities of Telecom Billing Vendors in the Deregulated Utility Market

While telecommunications billing providers are currently swimming in opportunities brought on by deregulation, there is even more gold to be found in the not-so-distant hills. Deregulation and competition in the electric and gas utility markets is driving energy companies ...More
March 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing
SNET AND DMR INTRODUCE GATEWAY PRODUCT

Southern New England Telephone (SNET) and DMR Consulting Group have partnered to develop e-Gateway, a software framework designed to simplify OSS interconnection with multiple service providers and jurisdictions. e-Gateway is intended to automate the preorder, order, ...More
March 1, 1998
Posted in News
FRONTIER AST SELECTS INET

Frontier Advanced Service Technologies (FAST), a subsidiary of Frontier Corporation awarded a contract to Inet, Inc., for the purchase of its GeoProbe system. The system is designed for surveillance and performance monitoring applications, which capture and process data ...More
February 1, 1998
Posted in News
Billing World Research Report Interconnection Survey: CLEC Executives and Managers Tell It Like It Is

In a recent Billing World survey, 26 CLEC managers and executives talked candidly about the problems they are experiencing with the billing, customer care and OSS interfacing, and rated and graded the ILECs in each of these areas and on their overall performance. These CLEC ...More
January 1, 1998
Posted in Articles, Billing

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