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August 2013

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Survey Reveals the Future for Traditional Billing and IN Charging

August 15, 2013

As data becomes the main focus for many mobile operators, there is an on-going debate about the future of traditional batch based billing for post-paid and Intelligent Network (IN) pre-paid charging infrastructures.  A recent survey by Openet has compiled operators’ views on this, highlighting some of the key challenges they have been facing with IN pre-paid charging platforms as well as how and when they intend to replace these systems.

Whilst some operators have already initiated the replacement of their legacy IN charging and billing infrastructures with real-time, online charging systems (OCS), many more are expected to follow year after year. 89% of the respondents think that as LTE is introduced, most operators will replace IN pre-paid charging platforms within the next 4 years and 70% said that they will be replaced by real-time, online charging systems (OCS).

A Prepaid Calling Card Market Perspective - The Hidden Costs in Purchasing a Prepaid Calling Card Platform

August 4, 2013

 

In this article we will discuss the following calling card platform options, and the associated costs and caveats with each: 

 

  • Open Source Solution
  • Hosted Solution
  • Entry Level/Low Cost Solution
  • Mature Solution

Open Source Solution

For price sensitive start-ups, open source solutions can be a great option, providing some of the lowest entry price points available on the market. 

Forrester: $2.1 Trillion Will Go into IT Spend In 2013; Apps And The U.S. Lead The Charge

August 1, 2013

Forrester Research has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion invested across software, hardware, and IT services by enterprises and governments in 2013. Within that, the U.S. will be the biggest-spending country by a long shot, and — in a sign of the times — apps will be the single-biggest spending category of all.

Overall, Forrester’s is a more sombre assessment of IT spend compared to Gartner’s, which a couple of weeks ago released its own IT spending estimates (again, not including consumer spend) and put the figure at $3.7 trillion.