billing

CINCINNATI-Mobile virtual network operator provider Visage Mobile will use Convergys Corp.’s Infinys billing services, including Geneva, the rating and billing component of the system. “Convergys is crucial to the Visage …

LONDON-Mobile satellite service provider Inmarsat Ltd. will install ADC’s Singl.eView rating and billing software for its new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, which Inmarsat will begin offering in 2005. …

As wireless penetrates the young-adult market, universities are losing revenues once garnered from on-campus landline phones and long-distance reseller programs. Telispire, which provides privately branded cellular service to various organizations, …

ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems said Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) will use Intec’s Inter-connecT billing solution to help it charge other carriers for using its network facilities. “This new agreement will help …

Ectel Inc. announced it sold its X-Probe PD product for lawful intercept to one of the nation’s largest wireless carriers. The company would not identify the carrier, nor would it …

Wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere have begun gearing up for potential problems associated with wireless porn, as U.K. telecom regulators field complaints from concerned parents-but the issue has not …

Wireless directory assistance, one of the more complicated issues in wireless, is gaining steam following recent analyst predictions the market holds an ample $3.3 billion revenue potential. But swirling around …

If you go into someone’s shop and take something without paying, it’s shoplifting and is punishable by jail time and a fine. But when a customer who owes a carrier …

More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS …

WASHINGTON-Sprint Corp. responded bitterly to a recommendation from the inspector general of the General Services Administration that it be debarred from future government contracts. “We find it outrageous that they …

ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems has deployed its Interconnect billing solution with Russian wireless telecommunications provider VimpelCom. The solution now supports VimpelCom’s 17 interconnect billing partners in Moscow, and plans are under …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Businesses are likely to react to wireless local number portability, according to new research from The Management Network Group Inc. The research also showed wireless service continues to …

Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access …

DENVER-Consumer-friendly pervasive telephony technologies were the focus of last week’s Zelos Group’s Pervasive 2003 show here. Directory assistance and speech-recognition technologies, both hot topics in the wireless industry, took center …

The advent of packet-data networks and all the resulting applications-from picture messaging to push-to-talk services-creates a host of new issues that network operators and other wireless players must confront. And …

PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. said Thailand’s TA Orange signed a $100 million contract with Alcatel for a network enhancement. Alcatel will supply base stations and related equipment to increase coverage …

PARIS-The WLAN Smart Card Consortium has released a smart card specification to allow hot-spot operators to use subscriber identity module technology for wireless local area network authentication. The specification will …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Global Wi-Fi use will grow at a record pace, reaching 707 million users by 2008, according to predictions from Pyramid Research. However, the research firm expects Wi-Fi prices to …

Beaten back by a lackluster economy and ambivalent wireless users, an assortment of veteran wireless data players has sought refuge in the company of network operators. By targeting wireless carriers, …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. licensed its Activation Manager provisioning module to China Unicom Guangdong, a provincial operator of China Unicom Ltd., marking Convergys’ first product deployment in China. Convergys will integrate its …

WOBURN, Mass.-Despite positive second-quarter financial results from Boston Communications Group Inc., the company’s stock was down nearly 35 percent Thursday on news that its largest customer, Verizon Wireless, might transition …

Despite positive second-quarter financial results from Boston Communications Group Inc., the company’s stock was down nearly 35 percent Thursday on the news that its largest customer, Verizon Wireless, might transition …

Convergys gets China Unicom contractCINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. has licensed its Activation Manager provisioning module to China Unicom Guangdong, a provincial operator of China Unicom Ltd., marking Convergys’ first product deployment in …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Colombia Movil SA, an emerging wireless service provider in Latin America, has chosen Portal Software Inc.’s Infranet customer relationship management and billing solution for is GSM/GPRS network. Colombia Movil …

TAMPA-Telecommunication Services Inc. (TSI) and Boingo Wireless plan to jointly promote wireless local and wide area network roaming in an effort to drive the adoption of wireless data and increase …