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Revenue Management

Is Big Data the Key to Combating Churn?

With operator revenues from their traditional business getting more and more unpredictable since the emergence of over-the-top players such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, insight into emerging customer trends is imperative. ...More
May 20, 2013
Posted in Blog, Revenue Management
Aptilo Streamlines Charging for 3 Scandinavia

The tight integration between policy and charging functions, Aptilo said, makes real-time charging more effective with higher granularity and quicker policy decisions for all services. ...More
May 17, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management
MDS 'Accelerates' Integrated Revenue, Customer Management

MDS says Accelerate delivers flexibility for service providers to bring new services and business models to market quickly and effectively. ...More
May 15, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Billing, Customer Experience Management, Revenue Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Former AT&T Exec on How CSPs Must Examine the 3 C's

Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, the former AT&T executive, discusses how the 3 Cs – costs, cycle times and capabilities – work inside a communications provider. ...More
May 15, 2013
Posted in Articles, Customer Experience Management, Revenue Management
New Empirix Suite Combines Service Assurance, Network Analytics

Empirix says the solutions suite helps mobile operators to ensure the roaming experience and maximize partnership revenues for voice, data and SMS traffic. ...More
May 14, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management
Do or Die: Direct Carrier Billing and the App Ecosystem

The majority of operators’ smartphone-related income is still earned from traditional telecommunication services such as calls and bandwidth – leaving service providers out of the digital goods business taking place within the apps. ...More
May 14, 2013
Posted in Blog, Billing, Revenue Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Customer Analytics: Making the Strategic Leap From Hindsight to Foresight

Everyone recognizes the hype and momentum around terms like “big data" and “in-memory computing," which is fine. But the question remains: "What are you going to do with all that unstructured data?" ...More
May 13, 2013 By Dan Baker
Posted in Blog, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
cVidya To Unveil LTE Revenue-Generating Tool

cVidya Insight is designed to reveal the actual profitability of new services in real-time. ...More
May 7, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management
Tiered Data Plans Undermine the Revenue-Generating Potential of LTE Data Services

Being the biggest LTE market has not brought low data-plan prices to U.S. consumers. Verizon Wireless charges $7.50 for each GB of data downloaded over its LTE network. This is three times the European average of $2.50. ...More
May 6, 2013
Posted in Articles, Revenue Management
BICS, cVidya Team To Combat Fraud

The two companies are creating a global fraud knowledge center to share information such as the latest trends, hotlists, PRS lists and other fraud information among multiple FraudView users around the world. ...More
April 30, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management