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Applying Real-Time to the Operator’s Tool Kit: Enabling the Second Side of the Two-Sided Model

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:32:00 CDT

The business process started with the network and then events fed into the billing-to-cash process. In that old-fashioned world, the billing process was an excellent audit platform and one of the key revenue assurance tools at an operator’s disposal.

Court lends an ear to complaints against FCC's efforts on special access reform

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:29:00 CDT

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear further arguments from Comptel-led coalition

AT&T, T-Mobile deal dead, Sprint among the winners

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:20:00 CDT

With AT&T ending T-Mobile bid, Sprint said to be a winner, while T-Mobile expected to start shopping for a new partner.

LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:22:00 CDT

LightSquared's money situation isn't looking good, with only enough to get it to Q2, says Reuters. The funding woes join the LTE-hopeful's growing list of problems.

Intellifiber thrives within Windstream fold

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:03:00 CDT

Connected Planet talks with fiber unit exec Sean Baillie about unit's unique account approach, the low-latency and cloud markets, Ethernet over copper and more

Real-Time Customer Policy Management: Turning a Negative into a Positive

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:38:00 CDT

Does it strike you as odd that the communications industry has set itself the worthy goal of improving customer experience but, at the same time is still issuing confusing price plans for mobile data services and putting caps on their usage?

It’s over: AT&T ends T-Mobile bid

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:21:00 CDT

In a painful end to an ill-fated buy-out attempt, the company said it is ending its bid for rival T-Mobile. Up next: a $4 billion make-good payment to DT and a world in which rival Verizon Wireless just gobbled up massive amounts of spectrum from cable rivals (pending approval, of course)

Sprint disables Carrier IQ, despite insisting it doesn't snoop

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:05:00 CDT

Sprint has disabled Carrier IQ on 26 million devices, according to a report, after legislators questioned the software and customers expressed concern.

CWA Report: Outsourced call centers pose serious security threat

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:24:00 CDT

Union hopes to build support for legislation aimed at discouraging companies from outsourcing call center jobs

AT&T is giving up on side deals it hoped would win it T-Mobile

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:27:00 CDT

AT&T's aggressive bid for T-Mobile seems to be winding down, as a new report says even AT&T's side deals with Leap Wireless and MetroPCS have gone cold.