billing

NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and Convergys Corp. agreed to settle pending litigation related to billing systems 360

CULVER CITY, Calif.-DSI Technology Inc. said it will begin selling its new Adserver Internet platform at the Personal Communications Showcase in New Orleans this week. The Adserver allows paging carriers …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. …

Joining several other third-party developers creating applications for the Wireless Application Protocol, CMG Telecommunications introduced its WAP Service Broker, a platform designed to connect wireless phone users to WAP-based content. …

Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission. Gary Ritter, wireless offer manager, location services, …

Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market. Carriers had better beware. Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise …

Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators will decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include Code Division Multiple Access technology, which could give …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. announced Sept. 6 it plans to acquire International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc., Stamford, Conn., for about $182 million in Amdocs stock. Amdocs provides customer care, billing and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies. The rules will come at an FCC Open Meeting …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has converted customers in Boston; Chicago; Kansas City, Kan.; St. Louis; and Omaha, Neb., to its Centers of Excellence infrastructure. The Centers of Excellence are …

NEW YORK-North American telecommunications carriers rank below manufacturing, consumer products and financial services companies in their adoption of Internet-enabled enterprises, concluded a recent report of American Management Systems, Fairfax, Va. …

Besieged by doubts over the very existence of a market for satellite-based voice services, low-earth-orbit carriers are starving for some kind of positive development to feed investors and customers alike. …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it is introducing services that allow customers to use two telephone numbers on one wireless handset. The first, called Appear Local, allows customers to have …

NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the preferred strategy for retaining competitive advantage. …

DALLAS-Alltel Corp. said it selected National Telemanagement Corp.’s SmartPay billing system for its prepaid wireless product in all 174 Alltel markets. “SmartPay is a simple to use billing solution that …

NEW YORK-Wireless carriers can only imagine scaling back their costly call-flooded customer support centers and slashing the overhead that comes with them. And wireless users long to regain those wasted …

SINGAPORE-After two years of bad debts and line terminations, wireless operators in the economically worst-hit Asian nations of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia can finally look forward to better …

ATLANTA-Satyam Enterprises Ltd., a regional partner of LHS Group Inc., said Global System for Mobile communications operator Fascel Ltd. in Gujarat, India, selected LHS’ client/server-based customer-care and billing system, BSCS, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will ask a federal appeals court to review its decision that eliminated FCC rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers. The U.S. Court …

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. said Sept.1 it will merge its Carrier Services and Telecom Industry Services groups to enhance the level of service to other telecommunications carriers and improve efficiency. …

Telecommunications operators could benefit from embracing fixed mobile convergence, according to a new report released by Ovum, an independent research and consulting company. The convergence market is expected to reach …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has thrown out recently changed rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers. The court issued the ruling as the wireless industry celebrated the …

NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, announced Aug. 17 it would acquire FaciliCom International Inc., Washington, D.C., by paying FaciliCom’s shareholders about $436 million and assuming $300 million in FaciliCom debt. …

SAN FRANCISCO-Just In Time Solutions, a San Francisco provider of Internet billing and interactive customer-care software, said earlier this month it had raised $10 million in a second round of …