MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. said it is providing the billing and management system for the MTV Pager Network, which gives customers special information about MTV programming and events.The In-Touch II system integrates a company's billing, inventory, accounts-receivable and switch/terminal interface functions, said In-Touch.The...
ITALYBusiness customers of Omnitel Pronto Italia now can call from Italy to Europe, the United States and Canada for the same price as local calls, announced Omnitel. "Italian telecommunications is evolving into a hyper-market, with multiple global players and a strong `customer pull' for...
Nextel Communications Inc. has purchased multiple Business Support and Control System software product licenses from LHS Group Inc. initially to support Nextel's international operators in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines, according to LHS.In addition to billing services, Nextel will use the LHS system...
Many telecommunications companies are banking on the fact that consumers want their long-distance, local, Internet, wireless and cable TV services-or some combination of these-bundled on one bill.Regional Bell operating companies, as well as long-distance and wireless companies slowly are moving toward the process, offering...
AT&T Corp. also told analysts it plans to push a calling party pays program for its wireless customers, as well as a dual-band, dual-mode handset with extended battery time.AT&T said it plans this year to offer its wireless customers the new Nokia 6160, a...
ATLANTA- France Telecom subsidiary France Caraibe Mobiles plans to license LHS Group Inc.'s customer care and billing software for its cellular network, LHS announced. FCM provides digital and analog cellular service in French Departments in the Caribbean.Under the agreement, LHS will provide its client/server-based...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-DigiPH PCS announced that it selected International Billing Services to provide its statement-processing services.Citing a need to bring services to market quickly, the startup communications company has enlisted IBS to produce the IBS BookBill, a new format that will consolidate four...
Clarence Friend, a wireless industry veteran, founded Newport Beach, Calif.-based Cellular Development Systems L.P. to provide real-time call rating and billing services to the rental car industry.Now, about four years later, his newly patented technology is being implemented in Chicago, where Enterprise Rent-A-Car has...
IRVINE, Calif.-L.M. Ericsson and Subscriber Computing Inc. entered a partnership agreement in which Ericsson plans to market SCI's wireless intelligent network-based prepaid metered billing system for Advanced Mobile Phone Service and digital-AMPS networks, said SCI.Ericsson will handle sales, installation, training and first-line support for...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to "appropriate industry standards bodies" this month and next in an effort to end the collect-call mentality under which wireless subscribers have had to function in most U.S. markets...
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CHICAGO-Competitive local exchange carrier USN Communications Inc. has increased the size of its initial public offering to 8 million shares, and plans to use some of the proceeds to add cellular services to its local and long-distance product bundle with the acquisition of Connecticut...
WASHINGTON-Wireline telecommunications carriers are gearing up to offer two phases of number portability this year, after successfully winning a time extension from the Federal Communications Commission. Some in the wireless industry would like the same to happen.Wireless number portability is scheduled to begin June...
Software developer US/Intelicom stands poised to capitalize on prepaid wireless, an industry segment some analysts expect to grow rapidly during the next few years. The company entered the prepaid arena with the idea that the same stores that rent furniture and electronic equipment to...
CULVER CITY, Calif.-UStel Inc. announced that its new proprietary, in-house billing service began operation after nine months of development and parallel testing.The company's chief executive officer, Robert Diener, said the new system is a major step in the company's strategy of becoming a vertically...
MOORESTOWN, N.J.-Axiom Inc., a billing data management solution provider, announced the opening of its first European customer support center.The new customer support center will be jointly operated by Axiom and Steria as part of an alliance to provide open billing data collection solutions to...
STAMFORD, Conn.-International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc. and Computer Sciences Corp. announced that ITDS will buy TRIS, a cellular telephone billing unit of Computer Sciences, for $100 million.Under the terms of the agreement, ITDS will pay $90 million in cash and the remainder in ITDS...
CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. announced it applied to have its True Per-Second Billing service registered as a federal service mark.Saying it is one of the pioneering companies of per-second billing, Aerial wants to safeguard the distinction in the competitive marketplace."A handful of other carriers bill...
LONDON-Racal Telecom announced it has signed an agreement with U.K.-based Vodafone Distribution Ltd. to provide the corporate market with an integrated package of mobile and managed fixed voice and data services.Through the alliance, Racal will provide Vodafone with data, voice, messaging, private circuits and...
WASHINGTON-The government is expected to begin collecting subsidies from all eligible telecommunications providers this week for the universal service fund.The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted an order outlining the amount of money it plans to raise during the first six months of 1998 for...
Bill Jackson, a former military software developer who has made a career developing communications applications for top secret U.S. government operations, has brought his flexible style of software solutions to the paging industry.The company he helped found-J Technology Inc., Athens, Ala.-recently released the PageWizard...
Western Wireless Corp. filed a complaint against GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. Inc. seeking an order compelling GTE to implement arbitrated interconnection agreement rates between the companies.Gene DeJordy, director of regulatory affairs for Western Wireless, said following the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,...
NEW YORK-When looking for the causes of customer churn, executives of cellular and personal communications services carriers should "start with the man in the mirror," to borrow words from pop singer Michael Jackson."In many ways, it's not the customers who have caused churn; it's...
One big-name credit-card company believes it can help accomplish every wireless carrier's objective: to gain brand recognition, target high-end users, simplify billing, reduce churn and perhaps entice customers to spend more money.American Express has been teaming with telecommunications carriers for about five years to provide...
