OpenCloud publishes Real-Time Charging Business Paper
December 11 2009,
OpenCloud is pleased to announce publication of its third Business Paper – "Freedom to Choose - Real-time charging for the now generation." This Paper continues the discussions in the previous two business papers – The Stranded Operator and Bridge over Troubled Waters. This paper completes the ‘journey’ by tackling the crucial element of charging. It looks outwards, away from the Communication Service Providers (CSPs) infrastructure, to discuss the importance of ‘real-time’ in the charging environment, and asks ‘what can real-time really do for us?’
Despite half a century of experience, billing - and increasingly converged billing - remains a significant challenge. And this is having a detrimental impact on new service deployment. You can’t sell what you can’t bill. But more than this, billing has an enabling role to play in the new world of telecommunications. Effective charging sits at the very core of delivering new business models and CSP content delivery strategies.
We’ve been at this for half a century – perhaps this time we’ll get it right?
The Paper includes contributions from thought leaders across the analyst and journalist communities as well as comment by OpenCloud, its customers and partners.
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