More about convergent billing

Convergent billing systems provide teleinformation operators with far more comprehensive and efficient architecture compared to traditional billing software. The convergence feature simplifies many clearing operations and processes and allows for quick responses to changes on the teleinformation market.

Convergent Billing Software benefits

Billing systems for telecommunications operators support the process of settling accounts with subscribers who use teleinformation services provided by the given operator. The clearing of these services follows predefined pricing and parameters connected with the services that subscribers are provided with. These parameters include: the type of service, the method of payment (e.g. prepaid card telephones or subscription telephones), the time-period of the service activation (e.g. the time of the call), the operator of the person one calls and many others. Additional parameters taken into account in the clearing process are promotions and discounts granted to the subscriber as well as the type of subscription (individual or business subscribers). As it can be surmised, such clearing generates a vast number of operations and processes which require a very effective and fast-operating billing system and real-time charging. Additionally, a large amount of information is archived in the database and undergoes further processing. Let us take the number of subscribers in the system and multiply it by the approximate number of total operations connected with one subscriber. The result will be an incredibly high number of operations which must be processed by the billing system at every instance.