Throughout the incredible journey of the telecom OSS/BSS sector over
the last 10 years, VanillaPlus has remained a reliable source of both key
news but also informative, objective and thought-provoking assessments of
the key trends which have shaped our industry. I am looking forward to
VanillaPlus and their more recent Stream journal continuing to play a key
role in providing valuable insights as we enter one of the most exciting
phases of the telecoms OSS/BSS market evolutions.
Kieran Moynihan
Vice President & CTO Telecoms
IBM Tivoli Division
Roaming Fraud: Meet NRTRDE regulations
On October 1, 2008 new regulations from the GSMA (GSM Association) come into force governing Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE). GSMA-member operators will soon have to exchange roaming data from the roaming to the home network within four hours of call completion. Failure to do so will make the visited operator liable for any fraud associated with the call.
In this exclisive article Tony Holcombe, CEO, Syniverse Technologies, tells VanillaPlus that carriers are moving beyond a discussion purely of fraud, and into quality of service.
To download the full article (PDF, 196Kb) visit:
http://www.vanillaplus.com/downloads/Van+ June 08 36-37.pdf