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ATS Network & Billing Update

Information for Leaders in Network Management, Billing & Revenue Assurance.

Current Issue

Q4 2009

Telecom in 2010: Belt Tightening or Expansion?
The Cloud's the Thing in 2010
Telecom Stocks to See 'Robust Growth' in 2010
OffBeat News: Texting Was Never Actually Designed for Consumer Market

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Archived Issues

2009	Q1	New Feature: ATS Developers' Corner OBF Quarterly Update - OBF #105 Telecoms Eyeing Home Energy Management: A Viable Combination? OffBeat: Charging Cell Phones With Just a Wave of Your Hand
	Q2	From the Developers' Corner - SCORVA OBF Quarterly Update - OBF #106 R.I.P. POTS - or Not? OffBeat News: Prototype Nokia Phone Charges Without Wires
	Q3	ATS Announces Partnership with WeDo Technologies OBF Quarterly Update - OBF #107 Revenue Assurance - A Niche No More OffBeat News: Mobile Phone Demonstration in 1979
2008	Q1	Revenue Assurance 2.0 ATS Set to Speak at Billing & OSS World Conference Universal Service Fund Needs FCC Attention This Year OffBeat: Doctor Claims Sending Lots of Sms's is a Mental Disorder
	Q2	Top 10 ROC Initiatives for 2008-2009 ATS Receives Outstanding Performance Reward from AT&T There's More to Network Assurance than Networks Offbeat: City Proposes Tax on Texting
	Q3	The Credit Crisis' Impact on the Telecom Market Customer Billing Satisfaction Linked to Churn TM Forum IDs Real Revenue Loss Data Offbeat: 25th Anniversary of the 1st Mobile Phone Call
	Q4	NEW FEATURE: OBF Quarterly Update Telecom Stocks: Back on the Rise Worldwide Telecom Still Expanding OffBeat: New Car Ignition Key Can Jam Mobile Phones
2007	Q1	Are You Contributing Too Much to the USF? "Missoula Plan" to Tackle Intercarrier Comp and Phantom Traffic Local Telephone Carrier Must Connect to VoIP
	Q2	How AT&T Optimizes its Network ATS Goes International VOIP Bills Set to Increase
	Q3	ATS Develops Siemens EWSD Module for SimCall FCC Launches 'Inquiry' Into Universal Service Fund ATS Offers New Vertical Features Audit Tool OffBeat: Surfing the Net From the Comfort of a Stall
	Q4	Where Else Can Revenue Assurance Go? Top Ten: Emerging Markets Carriers Survival Of The Fittest: CLECs OffBeat: Cell Phone Service Will Find Toilets
2006		ATS Announces Partnership With Convergence Engineers, VOIP - The 4th Communications Revolution, The Sarbox Conspiracy, and more...
2005		FCC speaks out on Recip Comp, VOIP QOS problems ... and more. Thoughts on Revenue Assurance, Know Your Competition, and ATS Tries the Mac Mini ATS Celebrates 10 Years, Watching Competition and What's Apple Up To? VOIP (Part 2), ATS tries Open Source, Hot 2004 Technologies VOIP (Part 1), Wireless Porting Problems and CapEx rebound?
2003/2004		MCI Fraud, Verizon Strike, and Divorce by Cell Phone Start of VoIP Mass Migration? Back to the Future for a Bell Company, and Terminator vs. Hulk Signs of Turnaround? New NECA Services Offering, & the Curse of the Quarter Avoid High Priced CDR Analysis Tools, Wireless LNP Update, and St. Patrick's Day in Afghanistan? Accounting "Goodwill," Update on WLNP, and Dead Men Don't Pay Telephone Bills FCC Blunder? Wireless Reciprocal Compensation and Aliens! UNEs, Churn, LNP, CABS New Lucent Switch and UNE, IP Telephony Access Updates
2nd Half 2002		UNEs, wireless & IP intercarrier compensation, more What's saved carriers over $1B? Pooling, Fighting, Sharing (In that order) Interconnection Woes, Innovative ILECs Dogs With Phone Numbers Got the information you need? VoIP, UNE Mess, SMS, more Mad CLECs, LNP, more Wireless Access, LNP

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