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Operators not ready for 5G billing, or partners, or revenue: survey
Billing is always the thorn in the sides of operators, always the last thing to be given green light from above. The same is true in 5G. Read more…
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Singapore telcos may be required to provide breakdown of billing
Telcos in Singapore could soon be required to provide a standardised breakdown of charges when billing customers, under new proposed requirements. Read more…
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Spark pleads guilty to operational and billing infractions
Spark New Zealand has pleaded guilty to court proceedings brought by the New Zealand Commerce Commission under the Fair Trading Act 1986 over a pair of billing and operational issues. Specifically, Spark admitted that it Read more…
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Will 5G mean billing as usual, or something completely different?
The promise of 5G, however far away it is, is clear. Lightning-fast speeds, low latency, great reliability – essentially it heralds the realization of every use case on every Powerpoint slide for the last 20 Read more…
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Transformation means new charging models for the digital world
It’s going to take a considered, and possibly radical approach, for service providers to realize the benefits of the so-called digital ‘revolution’. For the majority of CSPs, revenue management needs a complete overhaul by simplifying Read more…
Features
Rain aims to disrupt South Africa’s mobile data market by simplifying it
During the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I heard about a disruptive start-up that is looking to simplify the mobile data market in South Africa. I couldn’t resist tracking down Rain CIO Pieter Welgemoed to find out what Read more…
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Do telcos dream of electric services? Morgan Stanley thinks they should
ITEM: With telcos struggling to reinvent themselves to keep up with the sexy, nimble digital players disrupting their business, Morgan Stanley has a suggestion – why not power your service bundle with … um, power? Read more…
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Aria Systems to supply Telstra with cloud-based billing platform
Aria Systems has announced that Telstra has selected its monetization platform to automate billing processes, increase customer self-service options, and accelerate the delivery of new products. Telstra will leverage Aria’s cloud-based platform to support its enterprise products, Read more…
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In pricing and billing, the complexity curve never went away
You will be familiar with the complexity curve. There are several versions of it, but in pricing – and specifically telecoms pricing – it is about confusion and differentiation. The problem with telecoms pricing used Read more…
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Amdocs updates online charging system to support 5G network slicing
Amdocs has announced what it’s pretty sure is the industry’s first 5G-ready online charging system, which enables service providers to process traffic from multiple network slices on the same system. Network slicing is a key Read more…