apr 2012 30

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Happy Hour...On Your Phone


16 months ago, as I was gearing up for the beginning of 2011, I wrote a blog post about how the best opportunities for policy use were still emerging. That was the year when policy really came on to the scene in terms of how many CSPs recognized the need for policy and charging control. Since then, I’ve made other predictions that policy use would grow, and that we would see more and more creative uses.

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mar 2012 30

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Mobile World Congress, and "Exede-ing" Satellite Expectations


What a busy month we have had! March was kicked off by Mobile World Congress, one of the premier mobile events of the year, where prominent innovators and influencers come from all over the world to discuss ground-breaking advancements in mobile technology. The end of the month saw us at Volubill doing our part to realize one of those ground-breaking ideas: that satellite consumer broadband can compete with the larger, wireline incumbents.

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feb 2012 28

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AT&T’s Service Throttling Fallout, and Where Operators Go from Here


February saw AT&T take a lot of heat for its mobile data “throttling” tactics. And, I have to say, it’s pretty easy to see why customers are angry. In an effort to alleviate capacity overload on its network, AT&T enacted a policy of slowing down mobile internet connections for the top five percent of its data users enrolled in unlimited data plan. They first warned the data-devouring customers via text, and subsequently throttled their connection to what ZDnet called “largely unusable” speeds. The result was a large influx of customer service complaints and a rash of bad press.

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jan 2012 30

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CES 2012 and the Super-Connected Network


Per usual, this year’s CES lived up to the hype. The world’s most famous and important consumer electronics expo once again delivered some breathtaking advancements in personal devices and appliances. We saw incredible new tablets, Microsoft truly setting their foot down as an innovator in cell phones, a virtual presenter tool a la Star Wars’ Princess Leia, and even a smart refrigerator! While all these new products are wonderful and inspiring, they do beg an essential question, particularly pertinent to service providers. As the number of WiFi-connected, data-consuming, content-hungry products continues to grow, what effect will that have on mobile networks? We are entering unprecedented…

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jan 2012 3

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The Year That Was (about Policy), and the Year That Will Be (about Charging)


As we enter the new year, we at Volubill have been reflecting on the past 12 months and thinking about what the next 12 will bring. After such a strong, successful 2011, we are very excited indeed about our prospects for 2012.

In 2011, Volubill saw partnerships forged with Sandvine and new customers relationships made in North America, Tunisia and Cameroon. We were invited to speak at the 2011 CTIA Wireless conference as part of an engaging panel with Light Reading, and atTM Forum's Management World 2011 in Dublin.

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Volubill provides policy management, policy enforcement and charging solutions to telecommunications service providers. With the exponential growth in the volume of mobile data traffic and increasing customer expectation, Volubill’s solutions enable operators to maximize revenues, and eliminate revenue leakage and fraud whilst delivering a personalized service experience. Volubill’s CHARGE IT™ and CONTROL IT™ manage bandwidth based on subscriber and service centric usage policies & quotas; offer real-time granular charging for any data, content, VoIP or messaging service; and enable service providers to differentiate themselves through innovation. Volubill is global, with over 80 operator customers worldwide.

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