Billing World and OSS Today Magazine News

cyLogistics’ TrueBill Adds Agent Feature

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:17:19 PDT

cyLogistics’ TrueBill VoIP billing platform now includes an agent-focused feature. The Agent Billing function lets Internet telephony service providers pay agents through subscription plans and commission profiles. Providers also can issue account statements and agent sales reports. TrueBill supports prepaid, post-paid and tax and other functions. (45 words)

In the Zone at MetraTech

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:48:22 PDT

After facing off with Amdocs and NetCracker Technology during a recent panel discussion at the Billing OSS World Conference Expo in Chicago, MetraTech CTO Doug Zone sat down with B/OSS editor Tim McElligott to discuss his company’s momentum and his belief that service providers are starting to come ...(830 words)

Digital Fuel Delivers Advanced ITIL Catalog

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:56:04 PDT

Communications service providers targeting enterprises have a new option for delivering and managing service levels for advanced services with the release this week by Digital Fuel of its new integrated ITIL Service Catalog. The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Service Catalog is part of the ServiceFlow service management platform. It ...(412 words)

HP-Amdocs Demo Proves IMS-Legacy Billing System Interoperability

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:26:38 PDT

In concert with the IMS Forum, HP and Amdocs announced this week that they have demonstrated it’s possible for carriers to use their existing billing infrastructure to charge for services enabled by IMS Networks, potentially removing a barrier to IMS adoption. “For us, [interoperability with] Amdocs is a way of proving ...(383 words)

B/OSS Names Billing & OSS 2008 Excellence Award Winners

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:32:38 PDT

Eight winners of the Billing OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards were named Wednesday night. The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions. The Billing OSS World 2008 Excellence Award winners named Wednesday ...(384 words)

Army Certifies NetCracker; One Communications Deploys it

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:44:39 PDT

Competitive local exchange carriers must transform their back offices, too. So One Communications, the largest privately held CLEC in the United States, said this week it has implemented NetCracker Technology’s OSS Service Fulfillment Suite to manage its consumer and business services as it consolidates processes in its growing regional network. ...(359 words)

Billing & OSS World: CustomCall Promotes NGT Partnership

Thu, 01 May 2008 06:55:41 PDT

CustomCall Data Systems took this week’s Billing OSS World in Chicago as an opportunity to promote its New Global Telecom private label billing partnership. The billing and OSS solutions company said its NGT deal has achieved a speed-to-market milestone of enabling service provider to roll out advanced VoIP services ...(107 words)

Billing & OSS World: Harris Stratex Intros NetBoss XT

Thu, 01 May 2008 06:04:18 PDT

Harris Stratex Networks Inc. this week at Billing OSS World in Chicago formally announced its NetBoss XT management software. The company, which also sells wireless gear, is known for its existing NetBoss solution, which is used by such companies as PAETEC domestically as well as many service providers outside ...(270 words)

Psytechnics CTO: QoS Is Insufficient for Real-Time Applications

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:51:55 PDT

Quality of service is a measure of network performance not customer satisfaction with service quality, said Mike Hollier, CTO of Psytechnics, speaking Wednesday at the Billing OSS World 2008 Conference and Expo in Chicago regarding delivering superior quality of experience – a term he suggests as the new yardstick ...(297 words)

Billing & OSS World: How SDF Enables Service Marketplaces

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:28:36 PDT

In today’s evolving communications and entertainment world, various entities are involved in delivering services and applications to end users. So there’s a need for a common language and infrastructure to be used between content providers, transport providers and retail service providers. A group of companies are working to create a ...(437 words)