Somalia Gets Per-second Billing

Tecore Wireless Systems says that its customer, Telsom Mobile, has deployed Per-Second Precision Prepaid for their prepaid customers network-wide in Somalia. Telsom is a Joint Venture Company between two telecommunication service providers in Somalia, Somatel and Telcom Somalia, and was established in February 2001.

"We've been able to implement Tecore's solution as a true real-time, pay-for-what-you-say feature for prepaid services - on a per subscriber basis for all calls, across peak and off-peak hours, every day of the week," said M. A. Jama, Telsom Mobile's CEO. "These types of customized features allow us to compete in the market and significantly increase our business while giving the customer more flexibility and freedom of choice."

With the Per-Second Precision Prepaid capability, Tecore operators have unparalleled flexibility to customize their billing increments to match their market needs. They are able to create a variety of billing increments from 1-second to over 5-minute intervals. When carriers face pressure to reduce the per-minute tariffs that they charge to their customers, per-second charging becomes a logical alternative.

"This implementation gives wireless operators the true flexibility of per-second billing to stay ahead and quickly react to changes in the marketplace," said Casey Joseph, Tecore's chief technical officer and vice president of engineering. "Our engineering team is equipped to design such innovative and customized tariff structures on the AirCore System to meet our evolving customer needs," added Joseph."

Posted to the site on 2nd December 2003