"Telecommunications fraud is one of the largest causes of revenue loss for service providers," said Mr. Idelson. "With the advent of new services such as 2.5G, 3G and VoIP, and as telecom fraud becomes increasingly sophisticated, this problem will only become compounded. To combat this, service providers will need advanced systems that can detect all types of fraud. Failure to do so may result in substantial revenue loss, and no operator can afford that today."

This course is the guide to telecommunications billing. The outline encompasses the entire end-to-end billing processes, with major focus on the interfaces with OSSs, BSS, network management, finance, marketing, pricing and customer support.

We examine the root causes of billing errors and their potential impact. Tried and tested techniques are described for assessing current performance levels, setting appropriate performance targets, and managing the technology and business processes to achieve an optimal level of revenue assurance. The business case for implementing and maintaining a revenue assurance function is examined and examples of current regulation and the obligations placed on operators are described. In sessions, leaders will combine formal classroom presentation with case studies and attendee involvement through Regtone. Participants will walk away with a series of tangible mindset to immediately apply optimized Revenue Assurance implementation strategies.

Converged telecommunication billing services stand on the verge of radical change. The old rules of circuit switched networks do not apply in the Internet Protocol (IP) world. With the advent of more complex types of applications and services, the usage details required to bill activity must therefore be more dynamic.

The end of traditional monopolies and the explosive growth in the number of carriers means that Interconnect billing is beginning to supplant the old, inflexible and costly Accounting Rate System. For carriers new and old alike, Interconnect is a crucially important element of the revenue stream. This expert 2-day seminar gives a real insider’s view of how to bill this, one of the fastest growing segments of the market.

In a telecommunications network environment, various Network Elements like telephone switches encode and store accounting data, known as Call Detail Records (CDRs), in different formats. The mediation Platforms collect this data, converts it into a normalized output format, and then distributes it to third-party applications such as billing, traffic analysis, fraud management systems etc. These platform enable service providers to tie in multiple types of network elements into a homogenous architecture. It can handle multiple switches with wide variety of network interface options. It is scalable, open, flexible and highly manageable and is available as a simple low-cost platform to high-end high-availability clustering platform.This course is the guide to telecommunications billing mediation. The outline encompasses the entire billing mediation processes end-to-end, with major focus on the interfaces with OSSs, BSS, network management, and CRM.