Peter Dinham
Thursday, 04 June 2009 16:29
IT Industry -
Market
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Rainge also says that, in addition to providing a key
business operations platform, companies aiming at the cloud
infrastructure opportunity are recognising that the ability to develop
and maintain a set of pricing plans requires the rating expertise of
the telecommunications industry.
For example, Rainge says, a fixed line
subscriber calling a local number during weekend hours would typically
be rated at a lower tariff rate than a roaming mobile user accessing
email internationally during peak hours. “The kind of subscription —
prepaid, postpaid, data, voice, business, or consumer — drives a
further level of complexity for which the telecommunications industry
offers mature and real examples of business processes and systems.”
Additional findings from IDC’s study include:
• Two metrics fuel the cost of billing systems: the volume of subscribers and the number of transactions
• The emerging telecom cloud billing platforms are increasingly
smaller and lighter investments, particularly in comparison with legacy
telecommunications billing platforms
• For telecom billing platform vendors to offer compelling solutions
to cloud players, they must demonstrate business process agility