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HP Convergent Charging Approach for Adaptive Billing

Overview As the communications landscape continues its tumultuous evolution, service providers (SPs) are recognizing the critical need to implement a robust and flexible convergent charging component within a consolidated business support system (BSS). The same technological breakthroughs, which offer SPs exciting new revenue streams through expanded service offerings present daunting and often insurmountable challenges to legacy billing systems. This paper identifies and analyzes the key business and technical drivers that comprise a mandate for a new charging and billing architecture and strategy, as well as describing HP's answer to these challenges - the HP Convergent Charging solution.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2005	Downloads	285
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Strategies, Business Management

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