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A new page called General Matters

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Hello everyone . For long there has been a hiatus on this blog of new stuff. I apologize but for some matters of higher priority my wirting on this blog was put on hold by me .
I wanted to bring stuff into this blog after good research to provide the readers of the blog quality stuff.
Good news is that the wait is over !!
Also the very direction of this blog is now in for a change and headed towards a transformation from being a strictly technical and industry oriented blog to something which will retain the previous values but also add in more generalisitic topics of life not necessarily technical in it’s core.
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What is Billing?

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In several responses and replies to me in emails, people have wanted to know basic import on the terms on which this blog is based. So I will now attempt to answer these questions in this post as well as future posts. So Billing will be first term that I will try to address.

The Wikipedia and several other places on the net provide the different definitions for billing.
Let me attempt the turn of explaining this to you in a simple sequence from the inception of a business to the action of billing for initiating the chain or cycle of activities which help in recognizing the revenue of this business.

Say there is a need for some service/product which an individual, a group of individuals or a more specifically say a company /organization requires. So in absolutely bare terms and though there are more factors to it but in the minimalistic sense when the need for this service permeates beyond a critical number of individuals then the chance arises for a market to be created for this service.

Now this critical number is never a fixed number, it just cannot be. This number is recognized as demand defining threshold. And this threshold is the trigger which makes people having the resources, plan and knowhow to kind of satisfy this demand start taking notice of this demand.


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Operational Mistakes in B/OSS Systems – How can we get Better

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No amount of training can unfortunately prevent this. Humans are prone to making mistakes. Spent 12 hours of my precious Saturday trying to come up with logic of recovery for corrupted data at customer site thousands of miles away. Well the last few words meant that this is a global phenomenon and you cannot fully stop this .

But there should be ways to minimize this .Learnings from mistakes have to incorporated in day-to-day policies guiding operational practices of Telco IT divisions or Other teams manning the Production Utilities and Systems of such an arena.
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Learning Telecom Billing Concepts – How to make a Start?

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In a Telco billing system a person who is offering the Telco services can be the same guys who are providing the network backbone for supporting the provision of those services and hence they can be called Network Service Providers OR if they are just providing the Telco service they can just be called the Telco service operators.
The end customer meaning us using the services of the Telco service provider would be called the Subscriber.

On a rough and simplistic note,

1) First we should recognize the concepts of different intervals in which accounting tasks are done and also the popularly solemnized billing cycles at the end of which Invoices are sent to customers. Simple Googling on these terms will help you get familiarized with these terms.
2) Then you should focus on the rentals concept meaning the subscription fees of services that a typical subscriber in a billing system would be tied to.
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