HERZELIA, Israel-Formula Telecom Solutions said it completed installation of its billing and customer relationship management software for Bulgarian operator MobilTel.MobilTel is Bulgaria's largest GSM operator with more than 1.3 million subscribers, Formula said.
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless introduced its e-Wallet integrated billing platform for its mMode service allowing content providers to charge for their digital services directly to customers' wireless phone bills or credit cards.The carrier said the billing platform, which is powered by Qpass, offers an easy...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Centennial Communications Corp. extended its information services outsourcing contract with Alltel through 2005. The contract calls for Alltel's Information Services to continue to provide remote outsourcing of all production operations servicing Centennial Wireless' customer care, billing, network and electronic billing requirements for...
ATLANTA—Intec Telecom Systems announced it has partnered with m-payment solution provider MoreMagic to develop a solution that delivers real-time m-commerce mediation between customers and content.The new technology can: facilitate delivery of content to consumers; provide advice of charge and payment mechanism for content; permit...
ALBANY, N.Y.—CommSoft announced it will provide Armstrong, an owner and operator of several independent telephone companies, with the CommVergence billing and customer care system for use in a service bureau offering.The entity, to be called Armstrong Billing Solutions, will include: customer care; billing/payments; rating/call...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Cellular operators need to market mobile entertainment applications more aggressively if many more games applications developers are not to go out of business. This is the view of international telecommunications consultancy BWCS, which claims developers will be forced under unless operators are more...
HONG KONG—Verizon Wireless Inc. is the first customer for Lightbridge Inc.'s Mobile Data Manager, a new service that enables carriers to allow users to self-provision data services. Mobile Data Manager is significant because it can generate more traffic, and thus more revenue, for carriers,...
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Vodafone's Sweden business announced it will replace its old billing system with Portal Software Inc.'s Infranet Wireless convergent billing software, for use with its messaging and voice services.Separately, Indonesian wireless carrier Telkomsel will use Convergys' Geneva billing product to charge for its GSM...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—Although a variety of companies are working toward creating a market for wireless streaming video, and carriers have talked up the technology, Probe Research in a new report questions whether the current success of streaming media on the wired Internet will translate...
ATLANTA, United States—U.S. company Inet Technologies said it deployed its short message service tracking and billing technology for Globe Telecom in the Philippines. The solution will help Globe validate interconnection billing for SMS messages.
BOSTON—Canadian wireless operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched SpeechWorks International Inc.'s speech-activated customer service application for its Fido brand wireless service.The SpeechWorks service is designed to allow customers to automatically update their account address for billing information in either French or English.
DUBLIN, Ireland—Some trends are beginning to emerge in the European multimedia messaging service (MMS) market following the launch of services by several operators. However, there is still a distinct split between those charging per message and operators adopting volume pricing models similar to those...
TORONTO—Wireless carriers Telus Mobility and Rogers Wireless Communications plan to charge new cell-phone users by the minute instead of by the second. This change in billing is expected to help boost revenue.Beginning 1 July, Telus Mobility will switch to per-minute billing for all new...
CLINTON, Miss.—WorldCom will reportedly exit the U.S. wireless resale business during the coming months.The San Francisco Chronicle said it obtained a letter from WorldCom's general counsel to several key sales agents stating the wireless resale business "is not consistent with its core strategic business...
CLINTON, Miss.—WorldCom Inc. will reportedly exit the wireless resale business during the coming months.The San Francisco Chronicle said it obtained a letter from WorldCom's general counsel to several key sales agents stating the wireless resale business "is not consistent with its core strategic business...
BERNE, Switzerland—Swisscom Mobile said it will begin offering multimedia messaging services on June 3, following MMS launches from Telecom Italia Mobile and Vodafone Telecel in Portugal last week.Swisscom Mobile will provide the service free during its launch phase until the end of September. Beginning...
LAUREL, Md.—Sentori Inc. announced it will work with Siemens Netherlands to provide the Sentori 3G Billing and Customer Care software system for Belize Telecommunications Ltd.'s GSM/GPRS network.Sentori's customer management solution is a multi-service billing and customer care network provisioning and mediation platform for voice,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to introduce a billing system enabling i-mode subscribers to make monthly payments at convenience stores using a two-dimensional bar code on the screens of their mobile phones.The service, dubbed "combien?," is expected to be available at a pair of convenience...
CRACOW, Germany—ComArch S.A. has introduced its Tytan Mobile Portal, an addition to its TYTAN suite of products.Tytan Mobile Portal allows carriers and their partners to work on one platform, using common tools to develop and integrate services. The other products included in the Tytan...
BEIJING—Despite an official ban, China Mobile's subsidiary in southwestern Guizhou Province launched a trial run of a controversial calling-party-pays billing system. China is officially still using a two-way billing system, whereby the caller as well as the called party pay part of the call...
MANCHESTER, N.H.—Verizon Communications introduced its One-Bill consolidated billing service to residential customers in New Hampshire. The service allows customers to consolidate their local, wireless, high-speed Internet access, regional toll calling and optional services on one bill.Verizon currently offers the service to customers in New...
MINNEAPOLIS—ADC said that India's Reliance Industries Ltd. has chose its convergent billing platform for its wireless, broadband, wireline and data services.Reliance plans to use SingleView's customer, service and revenue management capabilities for its telecommunications services, including its broadband network currently being built in India....
