Cartesian Partners with a Leading European OSS Provider to Deliver Best-of-Breed Solutions

A major European cable company has adopted an approach to meeting new mediation and revenue assurance challenges that serves to confirm the benefits of a joint solutions strategy now on offer from TMNG Global’s Cartesian subsidiary and their partner, a leading European independent OSS supplier

A Tier 1 global communications service provider, with assistance of TMNG Global experts, has made great progress in assessing the staffing requirements that come with consolidating operations support across a geographically diverse multi-service footprint.

Like many telecoms worldwide, the company has been working toward  integrated operations in the wake of acquiring several other telecommunications-based companies over the past decade. At the same time, the expansion of the company’s service portfolio and the desire to integrate all service operations as much as possible has added further complexities to the consolidation agenda.

A leading international communications service provider wished to support their mass and large business segments with an improved online bill payment and reporting experience. Their customers’ acceptance of online billing was in the 25-35% range for businesses of some size, and much closer to zero for small businesses. The client wished to push those penetrations to higher ranges.

Thus, for this client, the question was not whether to upgrade their online billing offerings, but how to best make it happen. As TMNG Global had recently successfully concluded a similar project for the client’s consumer segment, they asked the firm for help on this initiative as well.

A leading wireless service provider had recognized that their IT billing services organization did not have standard processes and business controls in place, resulting in the majority of internal client requests being handled as custom projects, which was costly, inefficient and ineffective. They needed to transform their billing services organization to be more user-friendly, process-driven and business-oriented.

A major international communications service provider was pursuing a consumer online billing initiative to enhance electronic bill presentment and payment and customer self-care. Their primary objective was to increase online billing adoption from their current level of 5% to 30% or more in five years, which they believed would deliver substantial cost savings with the added economic benefit of retention and potential up-sell opportunities.

The client, a communications service provider, did not have a comprehensive audit program or structured processes in place to deal with monthly billings from vendors that totaled approximately $1.2 million. As a result, service bills were paid without review. In addition, the client did not utilize electronic billing formats and was inundated with paper bills. Although the client had purchased a basic audit program, it only served to reformat electronic bills for inclusion into the billing system for call detail records. Additionally, the client had never terminated any service with its service providers and they were thus incurring significant costs for canceled customers.