Category Archives: telecom

D-Day– ROC Revenue Assurance v5 Globally Launched

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

No more teaser advertisements…. for today its D-Day.My product ROC Revenue Assurance v5 is Globally Launched, and it definitely is significant for me.One could say– it is my first international product launch– and well it is a grand scale of … Continue reading →

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‘INRA’- could this be tomorrow’s definition for today’s RA?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

How about an acronym ‘INRA’ which reads as ‘Investment aNd ROI Assurance’?Don’t worry, it is not a new mouthful marketing term that has just jumped out in some bright brain, but the concept and where it stems from is fairly … Continue reading →

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War of Worlds- The Tariff War in telecom continues- Time to Assure Business

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Don’t think of the Tom Cruise starrer Hollywood flick, for this post is about the recent news of MTS slashing base calling tariff to half paisa per second, that is roughly $(1/9000) per second. Read the full article here. Imagine … Continue reading →

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An excellent read on Business Assurance from TMNG and GTB

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

The following article was published in http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com.Since there was no link to share in blogger, I am copy pasting the content of the article in here.Please read the original article here. “ A holistic approach to optimising business performance 21 April … Continue reading →

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Telecom Asia Awards 2011 Presentation

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Telecom Asia Awards 2011 Presentation …. but it is surprising to see no Indian operators on the top! (This is a direct  link to ‘Poulos Ponderings’ at http://tonypoulos.com/videos/ )

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"Optimizing" Revenue Assurance

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

For a number of years now, there has been fair bit of ‘buzzzzzzzz’ on Proactive Revenue Assurance.Let me try and put a few things straight first:– (Reactive) Assurance: Assuring after the fact and preventing recurrence in future– Active Assurance: Assuring … Continue reading →

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Mobile Banking– could this be a possible pain-reliever for telcos in India ?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

In a recent article MasterCard”s India-born President and CEO Ajay Banga said, India presents much more exciting opportunity than China in terms of growth of the credit card business. Read the complete article here.He argues ..”that cash is expensive for an … Continue reading →

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‘Face Off’ – from revenue assurance to revenue optimization and the way forward

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

If only it was possible to surgically put faces-off from one skin and fix it on the other, as had been shown in the Nicholas Cage, John Travolta starrer movie ‘Face Off’; business tycoons would surely have used a similar … Continue reading →

Posted in Analytics, Revenue Assurance, Revenue management, telecom | 1 Comment

Deriving value out of analytics softwares in telecom – the question is how much ?

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

“Mobile broadband will have the greatest impact in both mature and growth markets, but finding the right business models and managing costs will be the keys to operator success“. This is a direct quite from the an article in Analysis Mason … Continue reading →

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Telecom Business = Analytics + Social Media + Advertising + Usage platform + Consolidation

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

It’s time that telecom business actually started looking deep down into customer analytics and started raising the bar of expectations of consumers with the innumerable ‘next gen’ possibilities that customers can make use of using the telecom infrastructure; rather than concentrating … Continue reading →

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is it wise to charge for Customer Care– especially for telcos?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

In an interesting article, Tony Poulos mentioned that it may not be wise for operators for charge for Customer Care operations. You can read the article here. The question is, could this be a revenue generator source for the telecom … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer care, Customer Experience Management, telecom | 1 Comment

Noetic theory- Can it serve purposes of risk and revenue management in telecoms?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

Let me be honest and say, I had not exactly heard this term ‘Noetic Theory’ until one of my seniors mentioned it to me. Hence, just to let everyone know what it is, you can read the same in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Blink, Customer Experience Management, Malcolm Gladwell, Marketing 3.0, Noetic theory, Philip Kotler, Revenue Assurance, Revenue management, Risk Management, telecom | 1 Comment

Revenue Assurance includes Solar RA and Radiation RA

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Often it is discussed what is in-scope and out-of scope for “revenue assurance”. In this blog of mine you would find a bunch of articles where I have tried explaining what RA should include and what not. While debating on … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Discounting in telecom operations- Risk management and future utilization

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

Being faithful to my ideology of ‘Risk Management’ and not using the word ‘Revenue Assurance’– in this post I am trying to put my thoughts on the do’s for risk containment in operations implementing ‘Dynamic Discounting’. Quickly ‘About Dynamic Discounting’ … Continue reading →

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In scope and Out of Scope for Revenue Assurance in telecom

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

In a recent comment in talkRA.com, Alan Gonzaga has asked a question that I feel somehow points to the core topic of discussion in my earlier posts viz. Managing ‘Cost’ must be an integral part of telecom Revenue Assurance and Assurance : Management … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry Boys – Is that a cost-effective way forward for Vodafone in India

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

This is the new advertisement from Vodafone — a call to everyone for using the Blackberry services, instead of only the corporates.I don’t want to comment on the video as a whole for it must have been created by extremely … Continue reading →

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Net-Neutrality – Is it a risky business for telecom operators?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

For anyone who may not be able to re-collect at one go the term, net-neutrality is about seamless and unrestricted access to the internet irrespective of the mode of communication.if you want to know details ‘here‘ is what Wikipedia has … Continue reading →

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Telecom — A Brotherhood at Arms

Posted on September 12, 2010 by

The following advertisements caught my eye: and I started wondering if it makes sense to have a state when one business can grow by capitalizing on competition of another business . Sun and Oracle in their joint advertisements have started … Continue reading →

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Managing ‘Cost’ must be an integral part of telecom Revenue Assurance

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

Business must be sustainable. A company can be profitable yet bankrupt if the cash reserves are not in the right order. The state of telecoms w.r.t spending does not seem to give a clear picture as to how much the business … Continue reading →

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India Calling- yet Challenging!

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

Indian telecom market is like that turbulent sea, where if you survive, you play in billions, or else your ship is permanently wrecked (figuratively speaking in a ‘Titanic’ style). Looking through a few telecom magazines of last month– it seems … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Chindia', Business, IDEA cellular, telecom, Vodafone | 2 Comments

The next sea of change could be around the corner for Telco revenue management

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

Commonality is a boon or a bane? This is a simple question I am faced with when I try and “search” for the causes of revenue leakage and possible assurance methods in a telecom network. As a matter of fact, … Continue reading →

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Assurance : Management : Maximization & the scope of the activities

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

These three words are nothing new in the revenue management domain especially for telecoms. .But the question is — are these sequential activities or are they parallel? Another question that I hear reverberate across the industry — what is ‘in … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Fraud management, Revenue management, telecom | 1 Comment

Is Vodafone changing game plans? Won’t that hurt?

Posted on May 9, 2010 by

A call to the Vodafone call center today freaked me out!The IVR said– “charge of the call would be 50 paise per 3 minutes”….. Now that is strange!I wanted to speak to the customer care agent for activating a GPRS … Continue reading →

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Rev Assurance to Rev Management :: Leading change of thought process

Posted on November 29, 2009 by

Apologies for any typing / grammatical errors! Please point out the same through your invaluable comments. I was reading the book, “Leading Change” by Philip Kotler– and found it amazingly simple to understand. (Suggest everyone who is in business). It … Continue reading →

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Handling volume explosion of data

Posted on November 25, 2009 by

Apologies for any typing / grammatical errors! Please point out the same through your invaluable comments. Lets say you are Not Google, and you do not have BigTable, and you need to work with huge volumes of data, and over … Continue reading →

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