This book explains how various telecommunications systems and services work. It is a well-known fact that telecommunication technology and services are continually changing. Authors and industry veterans Lawrence J. Harte and Avi Ofrane understands these changes in the industry and provides descriptions and diagrams of typical interconnection arrangements for pubic and private telephone systems, data networks, inter-exchange systems, wireless, billing and customer care systems. If there were one book you could select for a big picture of the telecommunications industry, Telecom Made Simple is the best choice. Literally thousands of people who need to understand how telecommunications systems operate and the services that they offer have found previous works of these authors to be extremely valuable. Telecom Made Simple provides details of the latest telecommunications technologies and systems. Some of the most important topics featured are: - Identifies the latest telecommunications systems and their market trends. - Compares the different types of systems using easy to understand criteria. - Identifies new communication options available to companies and what systems they may upgrade or replace. - Explains telecommunication services that can be used to improve your job or enhance business operations. -Provides market assessments and trend analysis for the leading telecommunications industries. - Describes emerging technologies. - Gives an understanding of the economics associated with building and maintaining telecommunications systems. - Provides semi-technical descriptions of the key technologies used by telecommunications systems. - Gives an introduction to customer care and billing systems. - How telephone competition is increasing the universal deployment of digital telephone systems.

Telecom Made Simple

Computers & Technology

Harte, Lawrence

Ofrane, AVI

Harrelson, W. E.

Networking & Cloud Computing

Apdg Pub

<p>This book explains how companies bill for wireless voice, data, and information services. Billing and customer care for wireless systems convert the measured amounts of services (bytes of digital information transmitted or information services provided) within a network into the money that will be received by the service provider. The billing systems used in wireless systems can vary from simple one time charges for hot-spot wireless access points to integrated mobile cellular systems that allow real-time (near instant) activation and prepayment of services. The authors have interviewed and worked with hundreds of wireless service provider companies to discover the ways wireless billing systems operate. You will learn the language and terms used in the setup and operation wireless billing system systems along with the format and important information parts of wireless billing records. The popular wireless billing industry standards are described and explained including CIBER, TAP3, and IPDR. Covered are the basic processes used to assign costs (rate) to the usage of transmission and information services. Discussed are the ways that charges can be settled between wireless service providers who allow visitors to use their systems. Included is a basic introduction to how services can be instantly provided and how billing is performed for wireless hot-spot services. This book provides a basic introduction to the payment options that may be provided to the customer and how these payment options operate. A basic description of the process to setup a simple billing system is also included.</p>

Introduction To Wireless Billing; Usage Recording, Charge Processing, System Setup, And Real Time Billing

Althos Inc

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