Billing & OSS

By Pat Donnelly, Vice President, Sales, Americas, Service Delivery Solutions, Telcordia TechnologiesNo one is debating whether wireless has benefitted Latin American consumers and enterprises. But that’s not the same as saying that all of the region’s mobile operators are making money hand over fist. Instead, it takes savvy to turn a profit on mobile services, particularly broadband.Take video, which spans ...

Although they’re at each other’s throats in TV commercials, there’s one thing AT&T and Verizon Wireless can agree on: Metered billing for data is coming, and it might be here before we know it.Echoing what Verizon Wireless CTO Dick Lynch said earlier this year, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told a gathering in San Francisco this week that the industry is ...

Fiserv sponsored a survey of the Gen Y demographic and found they are hooked on mobile bill pay and banking, proving that Baby Boomers have truly slipped into the unhip generation they thought they’d never be.Thirty-three percent of Gen Ys – those between 21 and 29 years of age – conducted mobile banking in the last month, compared to 11 percent of ...

Virgin Mobile USA is cutting off its postpaid Helio users on May 25, according to multiple reports. Virgin Mobile, now owned by Sprint Nextel Corp., will give Helio customers $50 toward the purchase of a Sprint postpaid handset with a new two-year agreement, MobileCrunch reported. Otherwise, those subscribers will lose their service since Sprint is focusing on a prepaid-only strategy ...

Until now, most of the industry’s focus has been on the technologies of long-term evolution (LTE); however, technology itself does not generate profits. Understanding the impact of LTE on your business and selecting a way forward that matches your business model is critical to ensuring your success in the future market.There are a number of drivers for operators that shift ...