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Thinking Ahead with Hanno Allolio
Hanno Allolio was my guest for talkRA podcast 14. Hanno is a founder, partner and Managing Director of Allolio & Konrad, an international...
The Swap that wasn’t…or was it?
We recently swapped our prepay billing system – for some reason, I prefer the term “prepay billing system” as opposed to Intelligent Network but...
TalkTalk Pays Out GBP2.5M Over Billing Errors
TalkTalk, the UK communications service provider, and its subsidiary, Tiscali, has paid out GBP2.5M (USD4M) in refunds and goodwill after overbilling customers. The...
US Cable Operator Implements TMNG’s Ascertain
TMNG Global, the management consulting and software business headquartered in Kansas, has sold its Ascertain revenue assurance software to an unnamed US cable operator....
A tweet of a definition
Michael Badawy published a definition of technology management in an academic journal and referred to it as “A tweet and two characters”. His objective...
Pioneers in Perspective; an Interview with Dan Baker
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dan Baker for his blog at Billing & OSS World. In addition to writing...
February Announcements Confirm Vendor Trends
Two unrelated announcements in February served to confirm two major trends in the revenue assurance market.Growth in managed servicesSubex has announced yet another managed...
Assuring Contact
Over the years, I have witnessed plenty of arguments about the scope of revenue assurance. It should include this, it should not include...
The Flipside of Commission Errors
Any regular reader knows I like to look at errors - what causes them and what the consequences are - from all sides. ...
RA – Interdisciplinary bleeding
The number of related theories that might be applicable to solving my RA research question struck me this week as too numerous at this...
More Mobile Data Dischord
Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, recent industry news proves the point that customers may not understand, or be happy with, how they...
What is Mobile Data Worth?
Recent revelations that Microsoft Windows 7 handsets were sending large amounts of superfluous data when synching with Yahoo Mail (see BBC News) has served...
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