Sometimes Real-Time is the Only Time
A while ago, Nexustelecom issued a press release, boasting of how they had supported a revenue assurance project for Mobilink. They explained some of the…
Confronting the Risks When Governments Gather Phone Data
In the wake of a Federal judge’s ruling that the United States’ National Security Agency probably acted unconstitutionally by accumulating huge volumes of call records,…
Zain Chooses WeDo Software for Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq
WeDo, Portuguese vendor and market leader, has rounded out a good year with more positive news. Zain Group has purchased WeDo’s RAID revenue assurance software…
Time for RA to Cut Costs
In my latest article for BillingViews, I ask if telco revenue assurance budgets should follow the established pattern of RA software sales, with the result…
The talkRA Review of 2013
Another year over, and what have you done? John Lennon’s festive song reminds us that we participate in the world, as well as observing it….
What the TEOCO-AIRCOM Deal Says About Assurance
Atul Jain, CEO of TEOCO, modestly says his firm is not a player in the revenue assurance market. But TEOCO’s purchase of AIRCOM, experts in…
Killing the Kill Switch
CNN reports that US mobile carriers are obstructing manufacturers’ attempts to implement a ‘kill switch’ for their smartphones. The aim of a kill switch is…
The Tao of Bitcoin and Mobile Money
Bitcoin, the virtual currency, is the most underestimated threat to the mobile industry. To find out why, and how it has something to do with…
The Value of Network Asset Assurance
I was very impressed by the quality of the presentations given at the Subex User Conference. There was a lot of straight talk from Subex’s…