The biggest shopping day of the year is here again, and while major retailers across the nation look to battle it out with pricing wars, one renowned Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon has decided to join the festivities. Payman Simoni, M.D., recognized for the innovative Simoni Face Lift procedure, is hosting the first ever plastic surgery Black Friday Event. As the U.S. economy slowly recovers, this event will help to make once pre-recession affordable plastic surgery treatments more affordable ... Read Full Story
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, has been identified by Stratecast, a division of Frost and Sullivan, as holding the largest global market share in service-provider charging, billing and partner management systems. This was reported in Stratecast’s recently-published research series(1) on global billing.
“With its strength in addressing the end-to-end billing functions, and a strong solution for low-ARPU, high-growth markets, Stratecast beli... Read Full Story
Over this past weekend, my wife and I had the pleasure of a brief third visit from a real, honest-to-goodness, “household name” celebrity. This time, it was this celebrity’s husband visiting our home. And to think, it all started with a simple Craiglist ad, one that I placed on the Dallas Craigslist about two months ago.
First off, I’m not going to go into great detail about the celebrity (or her husband), not only to protect them, but because who they are really isn&... Read Full Story
The Bridges at Preston Crossings, a master-planned community developed by Bluegreen Communities, is set to open their first-class equestrian complex on Saturday, November 21, 2009. This brand new equestrian complex, located in Gunter, Texas, just north of Dallas, features boarding stables, indoor and outdoor arenas, paddocks and more than 10 acres of horse riding trails.
The many miles of groomed trails that we have access to, with lovely wooded areas, rolling hills and beautiful surrounding... Read Full Story
Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems recently told OSS News Review that MTPCS, LLC d/b/a Cellular One (“MTPCS”) has licensed TeleLink and Collector. TeleLink and Collector mediate call data from most cellular switches and networks. MTPCS operates its switched GSM network in Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas.
TeleLink facilitates the delivery of call records by filtering and converting data to the appropriate formats for operational support systems (OSS), such as billing and network ... Read Full Story
Subex Limited, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), has been reported as the market leader in Business Optimization for the second year in succession, by Analysys Mason in its report on the billing market, Billing Market Review: 2008 – 2013, released in November 2009. Subex emerged the market leader in this space last year as well.
Peter Mottishaw, Principal Analyst at Analysys Mason said, “Subex extends its leadership in Business Optimization this ... Read Full Story
FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of billing, CRM and policy control solutions for communication, content and service providers, recently announced that ETB (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogot ), the largest local telephone company in Bogot and the second largest telecommunications company in Colombia, has signed an agreement to extend services and support for ETB s entire billing environment for the next three years. ETB also recently deployed FTS Leap RevChain v 7.2 Billing solution... Read Full Story
Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, recently announced that Romanian service provider Romtelecom of the OTE group has deployed Comptel Provisioning and Activation to manage its multi-vendor CDMA network.
Romtelecom is the leader of the fixed line communications market in Romania. In recent years, it has gone through a period of major transformations and evolved from a former state monopoly to a convergent multi-se... Read Full Story
TM Forum today announced the results of its latest Business Benchmarking study which uncovers a direct link between Communications Service Providers (CSPs) levels of unbilled revenue and the maturity of their revenue assurance programs. The study results are included in TM Forum’s latest Insights Business Intelligence Report, “Revenue Assurance: The Hidden Opportunity”, and includes observations from other recent TM Forum Business Benchmarks.
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry gr... Read Full Story
Not too long ago, LeapFish unveiled a demo of it’s new multi-faceted search engine to the public, and it was received with warm reviews, although it did contain many glitches that needed to be worked out. Just recently, LeapFish unveiled another demo of their product to a select few, and this time around there were many benefits to really make this search engine conglomerate much more appealing the second time around.
The main key element that LeapFish is looking to utilize in order t... Read Full Story
