Telenet Group Holding (Euronext Brussels: TNET), the leading provider of
broadband cable services in Belgium, will use Comverse ONE Billing and
Active Customer Management as its real-time rating and billing platform
for digital television and mobile services.
By selecting Comverse ONE, Telenet confirmed its long-standing
partnership with Comverse to provide a broad set of new subscriber
services through advanced real-time rating and charging, subscriber
account management, and billing for content, data and other value-added
services. Comverse ONE’s real-time functionality also will allow Telenet
to customize marketing and promotional campaigns to encourage service
usage and adoption among its subscribers.
"Convergent real-time rating and billing uniquely gives us the ability
to use one system to manage all subscribers consistently, regardless of
payment or service type, as well as accelerate the launch of new offers
and promotions,” says Telenet Executive Vice President Technology &
Solutions Jan Vorstermans. "It gives Telenet the flexibility for key
differentiation through personalization and bundled offers across fixed
and mobile services.”
Real Time Billing is just one of several deployment modes within the
Comverse ONE solution, which is a converged Business Support System
(BSS) that enables multi-play operators to support any type of payment,
such as prepaid, postpaid or hybrid. Comverse ONE also allows operators
to create and deliver any service over its network quickly and
efficiently.
"Comverse is very pleased to be selected by Telenet, Belgium's largest
cable broadband provider, as we believe that our BSS solution makes an
excellent fit with the needs of cable telecom operators," says Urban
Gillstrom, Group President of Global Sales at Comverse, the world's
leading supplier of software and systems enabling value-added messaging
and content services, converged billing and active customer management,
and IP communications.
"As more operators become quad-service players,” he said, "Comverse ONE
Billing and Active Customer Management is an ideal BSS solution due to
its single data model approach and unified architecture that reduce
complexity and speed time to market with its ability to support any
service, any network, and any payment type -- all natural advantages in
multi-play environments.”
About Telenet
Telenet is the leading provider of broadband cable services in Belgium.
Its business focuses on the provision of cable television, high speed
internet and telephony services primarily to residential customers in
Flanders and Brussels. In addition, Telenet offers services to business
customers in Belgium and Luxembourg under the brand Telenet Solutions.
Telenet is listed on the Euronext Brussels Stock Exchange under the
ticker symbol TNET. For additional information: www.telenet.be
About Comverse
Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and
systems enabling value-added services for voice, messaging, mobile
Internet and mobile advertising; converged billing and active customer
management; and IP communications. Comverse’s extensive customer base
spans more than 130 countries and covers over 500 communication service
providers serving more than two billion subscribers. The company’s
innovative product
portfolio enables communication service
providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by
making their networks smarter. Comverse’s solutions support flexible
deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services,
and can run on circuit-switched, IP, IMS or converged network
environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc.
(CMVT.PK). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.
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