Ericsson achieves Charging and Billing Milestone

Highlighting the company’s strong position and achieving a significant industry milestone, Ericsson has surpassed the 2-billion mark in the number of worldwide subscriptions served by its charging and billing solutions, which - according to the World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) database - is equivalent to a 31-per cent market share of global subscriptions.

The 2-billion figure is aggregated from subscriptions of Ericsson’s charging systems, BSCS, CBiO (Charging and Billing in One) and charging solutions from the acquired Telcordia. These solutions comprise a mix of converged, prepaid and post-paid deployments around the world.

Per Borgklint, Head of Ericsson’s Business Unit Support Solutions, says, “Two billion subscriptions served by Ericsson’s charging and billing solutions is a tremendous milestone that further reinforces our No. 1 market-leadership position in telecom operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS).”

Ericsson charging and billing solutions allow communication service providers to handle all customers, partners and services in a streamlined, convergent process, covering prepaid and post-paid, voice and data, fixed and mobile, retail and wholesale in real time. Traditional telecom services such as SMS, MMS, voice and broadband including bundled quadruple play offerings are all supported. 

Ericsson also supports new machine-to-machine offerings and advanced subscriber and partner management capabilities, which creates vast opportunities for operators to innovate.