Chalk Talk: Burstable Circuit Billing Accuracy - Part 2

Posted by Ryan Guthrie on Oct 18, 2018 10:30:00 AM

Burstable billing, also known as 95th percentile billing, can present a variety of challenges if it's not regularly tested and monitored to ensure accuracy and completeness. While this type of billing arrangement is a nice benefit for customers and is often used as a marketing incentive, it can very easily lead to substantial revenue loss if any of the systems or procedures used to collect, mediate, and ultimately bill the customer are not functioning properly.

We recently posted 'Part 1' of this video series where our CTO Peter Mueller discussed how ATS' stamper box solution and data analytics help ISPs ensure accurate and complete billing for enterprise customers with burstable circuits.  In this video, Peter discusses how we help carriers quantify the common issues we uncover as well as their root cause and ultimately put controls in place to monitor and alarm when specific error conditions occur.  

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Topics: Chalk Talk, stamper box, 95th percentile billing, burstable billing

Chalk Talk: Burstable Circuit Billing Accuracy

Posted by Ryan Guthrie on Aug 7, 2018 11:45:01 AM

Burstable billing, also known as 95th percentile billing, can present a variety of challenges if it's not regularly tested and monitored to ensure accuracy and completeness. While this type of billing arrangement is a nice benefit for customers and is often used as a marketing incentive, it can very easily lead to substantial revenue loss if any of the systems or procedures used to collect, mediate, and ultimately bill the customer are not functioning properly.

In this chalk talk video, CTO Peter Mueller discusses how ATS' stamper box solution and data analytics help ISPs ensure accurate and complete billing for enterprise customers with burstable circuits.

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Topics: Chalk Talk, stamper box, 95th percentile billing, burstable billing

Why Telcos Should Care About Big Data - Chalk Talk

Posted by Peter Mueller on Jan 22, 2014 2:04:00 PM

In this episode of ATS Chalk Talk, COO Peter Mueller looks at the technical and economic rationale for having telcos embrace the public cloud. A brief explanation of MapReduce and Amazon Web Services are presented from the vantage point of sifting through Call Detail Records (CDRs).

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Topics: Telecom Data Analytics, MapReduce, Big Data, Rural Call Completion, Chalk Talk

Rural Call Completion - Chalk Talk

Posted by Ken Babcock on Jan 14, 2014 10:03:00 AM

In this episode of ATS Chalk Talk, Ken Babcock, VP of Regulatory Services, discusses the FCC’s recent order on Rural Call Completion (FCC 13-135). The interview covers:

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Topics: Rural Call Completion, Chalk Talk