Telecom Billing System Blog

Communications service providers that rely on safe harbor may face a disadvantage to competitors who use traffic studies. To help CSPs compete, TimelyBill is able to generate these usage reports on the fly. Here is an overview of how USF, safe harbor and traffic studies impact today's CSPs.

TimelyBill Continues Expansion with New Data Center Option in Las Vegas TimelyBill today announced a new data center option on the West Coast of the United States, in Las Vegas, to meet the growing demand for the TimelyBill OSS platform. The additional hosting location prepares TimelyBill for the next phase of growth.

What is Telecom billing and revenue management? Telecom billing and revenue management is the methodology that involves communication services and debt collection management. The process consists of gathering data usage files, calculating billing fees, generating invoices, and managing customer payments. How does TimelyBill rate usage, calculate billing charges and generate invoices? The diagram above depicts the telecom billing process flow from the service provider's usage, through invoicing and all the way to the processing of payments. Here is a summary of standard telecom billing process steps below: Step 1: Service provider gathers the usage data files within their network Calls, bandwidth, faxes, per-use… Step 2: Service provider pushes the usage files to a secure FTP location (via a VPN) At predefined intervals (15 minutes is typical) Step 3: Billing system imports the usage files and "types" the calls Local, intralata, on-network… Step 4:  Billing system rate

Order to Activate in Telecom TimelyBill OSS automates  telecom provisioning   ↗️  to a variety of devices. A typical provisioning process starts with a new order.  The order then triggers a sequence of workflow steps, and ultimately ends with an activated service.