November 2002
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In This Issue:
- Editor's Note
- Revenue Assurance Conference Draws Crowd
- Number Pooling Deadline Looms Near
- SimCall™ Celebrates 10 Years of Revenue & Service Assurance at the Switch
- Call Simulation vs. Call Generation
I had the pleasure of attending the TeleStrategies’ "Revenue Assurance & Margin Management" conference in Scottsdale, Arizona the other week and was impressed with the attendance and coverage of topics. Increasingly, companies are acknowledging the importance of revenue assurance and the presentations, roundtables and impromptu discussions illustrated this trend.
Speaking of revenue assurance, ATS is celebrating our flagship product SimCall’s 10th anniversary in the month of November. SimCall has revealed an estimated amount in excess of $1 billion in revenues leaking at the switch for our customers over the last several years, so we feel justly proud of it! Read more about SimCall and our special offer below.
Revenue Assurance
Conference Draws Crowd
TeleStrategies’ Revenue Assurance & Margin Management conference drew approximately 200 to 250 professionals, including many service providers and executives, to Scottsdale, AZ in mid October from as far away as Taiwan. Consisting of an exhibit hall and a day and a half of presentations and roundtable discussions, as well as a tutorial, the conference covered nearly everything under the sun in revenue assurance. Increasingly, companies are acknowledging the importance of revenue assurance initiatives, especially in these difficult times for the industry and the attendance and lively discussion illustrated this trend. [More]. [Top of Page]
Number Pooling
Deadline Looms Near
Wireless carriers are required to implement thousands-block number pooling, which includes both reporting and network upgrade requirements, by November 24 of this year. Meanwhile, California seeks to increase the number pooling contamination threshhold from 10 to 25 percent. [More] [Top of Page]
SimCall™
Celebrates 10 Years of Revenue & Service Assurance at the Switch
Especially because the telecom industry has been hit so hard financially this past year, executives are increasingly turning to revenue and service assurance measures to get the most out of their existing network assets. There are many ways revenues can slip through the cracks. Specializing in revenue and service assurance at the switch, OSS and billing vendor ATS’ flagship solution, SimCall™, has found large amounts of such leaking revenues – to the tune of approximately $1 billion during its 10 years in existence. [More] [Top of Page]
Call
Simulation vs. Call Generation
As SimCall’s 10th anniversary arrives, one of its main creators finds a compelling comparison in his archives between SimCall’s call simulation technology and call generation systems used for revealing revenue-leaking switch translations errors. An old e-mail dialogue, as relevant today as in 1998 when it occurred, was the source of this article. [More] [Top of Page]
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