News
NFC – a question of where, not when?
The roll out and success of NFC – and particularly NFC as a form of mobile payment – has been thoroughly examined, not least by us. Apart from the people who are involved, NFC has […]
Month: November 2013
Billing
Will Governments accidentally spur innovation?
Whether it is a trend that will be followed by other countries or not, the UK is moving to put caps on utility spending. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has summoned the heads of all […]
News
Vodafone not playing with Google anymore
Direct Operator Billing (DOB) or carrier billing has many advantages. It ticks the three main boxes for doing, well, anything. It is cheaper, faster and better. Customers like it, operators like it, obviously, and merchants […]
Beyond Billing
Selling out to the CIA
Telecoms operators worldwide are looking for new ways of generating revenue. Others are grappling with customer concerns over privacy, after the NSA revelations exposed some with complicity in providing customer data, freely or otherwise. It would […]
Billing
Real-time will unlock the potential of data
Wherever you go and whoever you ask – operators, consultants or vendors – everyone agrees that we now live in a data centric world. This is fine but it is nebulous. It is like saying […]
Billing
Volubill shock
On Friday, we commented on a Light Reading report that PCRF vendor, Volubill, was about to be acquired. After considerable investigation and forthcoming information from interested third parties over the weekend, we can now provide […]
News
Who is vying for Volubill?
Light Reading’s SPIT-meister, Ray Le Maistre, reports that Volubill is about to be acquired. We at BillingViews have suspected for some time that the policy and charging specialist would be acquired – the who and […]
Beyond Billing
NFC – a technology that solves no known problem
We are seriously considering having badges made that say ‘big companies cannot innovate – so don’t try.’ In fact the only thing that cannot innovate like a big company trying to innovate is a bunch […]
Beyond Billing
Who has their eyes on TV?
Our industry loves bemoaning the death of SMS, (rumours of said death greatly exaggerated), decreasing margins and the awful OTT people who are trying to take their livelihoods away. While doing so they are turning […]
Billing
US Cellular and the pain of a big transformation
Imagine breaking the news to your customer that the brand, shiny, very expensive new billing system is not working. In fact the new system is unable to bill customers properly, if at all. If that […]