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SPOTLIGHT – TV Wars and the Battle for Attention – Part 2

SPOTLIGHT – TV Wars and the Battle for Attention – Part 2

Written by on September 7, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

Part 2 of the challenges and opportunities in TV written by BillingViews and  The Workaround Trap  The speed of change and innovation itself causes problems. The closely linked market of telecommunications serves as a strong lesson, where redefinition of the market and non-traditional competition have driven the need for dramatic change. Communications providers have been forced […]

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VIDEO: What is Cloud-to-Cloud?

Written by on August 17, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

We recently introduced the Cloud-to-Cloud concept. With the help of the BillingViews whiteboard, we explain it here visually, both in terms for what telco engineers might like and as a competitive advantage for Telcos in enterprise cloud offerings.  

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VIDEO: Case Study: Bad Customer Service

Written by on August 15, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

Want an example of what not to do with customer service? Here’s one from the airline industry. Not only a good example of bad call routing, but a lesson in online self-care failure and how a bad backup plan will escalate the cost to resolve even simple problems. Here is another case of Bad Customer […]

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VIDEO: HTML5 vs “The Apple Tax”

Written by on August 10, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

Of the many benefits HTML5 may deliver, the most compelling one may be that it can enable big brands to avoid paying Apple and other major ecosystem owners large percentages of their online and mobile transactions. This video explains a bit about how that works.

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VIDEO: BYOD and Multi-Subscription Devices

Written by on June 20, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

The BYOD trend is creating new challenges for operators whose enterprise customers want automated tools for usage accounting and new plans that allow one device to draw as needed on distinct personal and business subscriptions. This video explains the problem and some of the emerging solutions (with thanks to Amdocs’ Uri Gurevitz) Or, read our […]

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VIDEO: Combating Bundle Busting with Multi-Device Subscriptions

Written by on June 13, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

Verizon Wireless announced a new concept today – plans that allow up to 10 devices to share services from a common subscription. We believe this among the first responses to “bundle busting” where customers acquire services from many providers, even though they could acquire all of them through one bundle. Amdocs’ Ann Hatchell says in […]

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A History of Revenue Assurance

Written by on April 30, 2012 in BillingViews, Features with 0 Comments

Inaccurate billing and criminal activity – no they are not the same thing – lost the mobile industry $58.4 billion last year, according to Juniper Research. Juniper says that if nothing is done to shore up the revenue assurance and fraud management barriers this figure could hit $300 billion by 2016. Telcos risk undermining the revenue […]

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