Zimbabwe state owned fixed phone operator, TelOne has successfully implemented a comprehensive end-to-end billing solution provided by FTS, a leading global communications and content solutions provider.
Hampton Mhlanga, the chief executive officer of TelOne, said "the flexibility of the Leap Billing system will enable” his company “to provide a richer offering … through the rapid implementation of new services, as well as immediate additional sources of income” from interconnect fees.
“The Leap Billing solution will help us to increase our revenues and therefore it will provide a rapid return on investment (ROI),” he said.
TelOne provides a wide range of services to its residential and business clients and its services include wireline telephony, wireless broadband and satellite communications.
The billing transformation project includes the implementation of FTS' convergent billing and charging, interconnect billing, invoicing, order management, customer management, network management and mediation.
Nir Asulin, the chief executive officer of FTS, said "the Leap Billing platform will further increase revenues over the coming years” for TelOne.
FTS is said to have provided billing and policy control solutions that have been implemented by most of the region's fixed-line, mobile, broadband and WiMAX operators.
TelOne, which in June said it was owed about $200 million in unpaid bills, has in the past two months launched a Symmetrical High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (SHDSL) broadband service that allows for equal upload and download data speeds.
The new product is an improvement from the Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) service that the organisation has been offering since 2011, as ADSL offers slower upload speeds as compared to download speeds.
The company is one of several state run parastatals - including the government owned mobile network operator NetOne - that has been earmarked for privatisation by Gorden Moyo, the country’s parastatals minister.
However, efforts to privatise the ailing parastatals have not made meaningful headway, as experts say some officials are stalling the commercialisation efforts.
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