Competitive & Rural Providers

  • ACCESS ONE GETS CABS SYSTEM
    Access One Communications will license CHA System’s strategic carrier access billing application. The system is designed help LECs and CLECs track, accumulate and bill long-distance carriers for use of their facilities. Access One will use the software in-house to bill for ...More
    April 1, 2000
    Posted in News, Billing
  • DSET JOINS FORCES WITH VITRIA
    DSET Corp. and Vitria Technology are developing e-business systems to automate processes for data exchange between DSET’s electronic-bonding gateways and OSS platforms deployed by CLECs. In other news, DSET and Mercator Software recently announced a reseller agreement that ...More
    April 1, 2000
    Posted in News
  • UNE Reformation
    With a modified list of unbundled network elements from the FCC, Bell Atlantic strains to accommodate the recent changes and present up-to-date billing systems and operational support systems. Regulatory shifts keep incumbent LECs and competitive LECs in constant ...More
    February 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • FCC Order Tightens EEL Rules
    The Federal Communications Commission on Nov. 24 moved to shore up restrictions on the use of enhanced extended loops (EELs) until it can resolve the debate over whether IXCs can use EELs to bypass special access services offered by ILECs (see related story, Page 22). EELs ...More
    January 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • UNE Audits: World of Missed Revenue
    So, Mr. CLEC, you’ve bought loads of unbundled network elements (UNEs) from your ILEC. You’re billing the enduser and collecting their money. Guess what? You may be missing the most important network item: someone to audit your bills to ensure your’re paying the right price ...More
    January 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • DSET Ships Two CLEC Products
    DSET Corp. recently released its ez911 gateway service designed to let CLECs provision new customers faster. The product is designed to automate the transfer of relevant customer information from CLECs to national 911 service bureaus. Another new software application, ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in News
  • Cracking the Code: CLECs Grapple with USOCs, FIDs
    You haven’t seen so much hype about cracking codes since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Like deciphering hieroglyphics, CLECs are grappling with deciphering USOCs (universal service order codes) and FIDs (field identifiers)—so vital in translating customer service ...More
    October 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles
  • HP-TSD Discusses the Status and Future of SS7 Link Monitoring
    Andy Belcher’s got a pretty tough gig. As general Manager of Hewlett Packard’s (HP’s) Telecommunications Systems and NetMetrix divisions, it’s his job to combine his company’s Internet business with its telco expertise. Though, like everyone else, he can’t be sure exactly ...More
    June 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Dear ILEC: You're Making a Big Mistake CLECs turn to automated reconciliation systems to keep tabs on access billing
    Talk about billing systems. You have 35 employees in your cost of access office responsible for tracking and validating thousands of invoices sent to you by ILECs and IXCs every month. Sometimes the invoices are stored on tape, CD-ROM or other digital media, but often, much ...More
    May 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • OSS Gateway Testing: Growing Consensus in New York, Contention in Texas
    These days, Bell Atlantic is tight-lipped about the deluge of complaints from CLECs trying to obtain electronic bonding with its back-office OSS. They are currently in the middle of a test of its OSS by Hewlett-Packard and KPMG Peat Marwick, and Bell Atlantic just can’t ...More
    April 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles
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