Revenue & Billing

The ITU Regional Cyber-Security Forum recently ended with the adoption of the Doha Declaration on Cyber-Security. Recognising that cyber-security has global implications that need regional and international efforts as well as close collaboration between governments and industry, the Forum urges each country in the region to develop capabilities using a new ITU Cyber-Security Framework...

Starhome has exhibited its latest roaming solutions to provide users with greater transparency of roaming costs at the Mobile World Congress. The new releases of Roam in Control and Data Charge Advisor offer users the ability to receive real-time notification of roaming charges to monitor and control roaming costs and allow operators to comply with the latest EU legislation for outbound roamers to receive notification of roaming charges on arrival in a new country...

Network revenue from machine-to-machine communications is projected to grow at three times the rate of the mobile handset business, according to Harbor Research. With typical per-dollar revenue profit margins for cellular M2M services also considerably higher than the handset market, operators investing now can benefit from this growth opportunity...

Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it has been selected by Inmarsat plc. to provide a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution...

Redknee Solutions, a leading provider of innovative software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, has announced the launch of IP Rating and Charging (IPRC) 5.0...

Subex, which specialises in OSS solutions, has released an enhanced version of its Prevea credit-risk management system...

Poor accuracy in location technology is costing millions for Fixed Mobile Substitution operators. Seeker Wireless is releasing a cannibalisation calculator and a detailed study to highlight the loss in revenues operators can suffer...

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Experts from around the world have gathered at ITU headquarters in Geneva to lay the foundation for a global response to the constantly evolving nature of cyber-threats and the increasing level of sophistication of cyber-crimes. Their strategy is based on a roadmap which will promote cyber-security from the start - a case of prevention rather than cure...

Telecomunicaciones Movilnet CA, a mobile operator in Venezuela, will expand its existing use of Comverse billing solutions by deploying Comverse's Real-Time Billing Solution and by leveraging its real-time marketing capabilities...

MTEL, Montenegro's latest mobile operator, has selected Comverse's Converged Billing Suite as well as several value-added services in order to deploy a complete suite which includes Voicemail, SMS, MMS and Call Completion solutions. The suite of services is powered by Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment...

Subex Azure, a provider of Operations Support Systems solutions for telecom operators, has won contracts to provide Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance solutions for Global Vision Telecom in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to be deployed in its Prestel and U-COM Congo CDMA networks...

Convergys has signed a new agreement with Telecom Egypt, to provide consulting services to enhance billing operations...

Vladivostok-based New Telephone Company has upgraded its CBOSS solution to full convergence, implementing the company’s real-time service billing and control system CBOSSrtb...

FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...

Connectiva Systems, which provides revenue and performance management solutions to the telecoms industry worldwide, has recently been awarded several multi-million dollar contracts by telecom operators globally. Developing Telecoms summarises the seven contracts involved...

Converged billing is expected to become greatly simplified for the Antigua Public Utilities Authority now that Redknee has been brought in to streamline APUA's billing system. Based on a turnkey contract APUA can now look forward to offering innovative rates and incentives...

Completing the hat-trick of PLDT / Smart contracts is the selection of Comverse as provider of a billing platform for a highly comprehensive range of fixed, mobile and convergent services...

Redknee Inc, which provides infrastructure software to monetise and personalise services and content for mobile users, has announced that Digicel Group has selected its CRM Solution to improve customer care and billing management in its newly acquired El Salvador operation...

Spearheaded by the arrival of real-time billing systems, billing is now a dynamic force with strategic implications and major repercussions for operators worldwide. Operators and subscribers in emerging markets, including those in the Asia-Pacific region, are among those enjoying the powerful benefits of real-time billing. Haim Kantor, Associate Vice President of the Real-time billing division of Comverse, sets the scene...

Yunnan Mobile Communication Co, a subsidiary of China Mobile with over ten million subscribers, is currently deploying Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment, to help subscribers complete and manage calls...

Guaranteeing that suppliers are paid is a key factor in any contract, as PowerCom Namibia knows...

Mobile payments provider Upaid has just announced its contract to deploy the Visa Mobile Service with Serbian mobile operator Telekom Serbia...

Deployment of Lucent's SurePay solution will integrate Belize Telecommunications Limited's existing GSM, AMPS and wireline charging/billing systems into one platform...

Croatia moved quickly when it deregulated its telecoms market. Key player Metronet Telekomunikacije dd was founded in May 2005 and has the advantage of deplo yi ng its own 100% fibre optic network infrastructure...

Revenue assurance specialist cVidya's new MoneyMap Suite R3.0 now provides full revenue assurance operations support, including rating and billing verification capabilities...

Intec, which supplies BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, has announced its new Centralized Error Management System (CEMS)...

Two companies, Subex Systems Limited, a telecom software product company, and Azure Solutions Limited, a telecoms revenue-assurance company, are to merge...

Alon Aginsky, President, CEO and founder of cVidya Networks, outlines his company's ambitions in emerging markets in view of the recent success of their MoneyMap solution in Panama...

The Middle East and Africa 's largest fixed line operator is set to replace 12 of its billing systems with replacements from Convergys Corporation...

In a move to further consolidate its market position, Subex Systems Ltd, the Bangalore-based telecom software product company, has announced an agreement with Virginia-based Mantas Inc. to acquire its business assets related to fraud management...

Lucent Technologies has completed the first stage of deploying a real-time charging solution for Russian mobile service provider MegaFon...

Cable & Wireless Panama first started providing GSM services in 2003. By 2005, it was catering to 64,000 mobile subscribers and seeing a 35% increase in GSM service revenue from the previous fiscal year...