An integrated charging, accounting and billing management platform for the support of innovative business models in mobile networks

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 418-434

  Koutsopoulou, Maria ^a   Kaloxylos, Alexandras ^b   Alonistioti, Athanassia ^a   Merakos, Lazaros ^a   Philippopoulos, Panos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c Temagon SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Billing; Business model; Charging: accounting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ACCOUNTING; BILLING; BUSINESS MODELS; CHARGING FUNCTIONALITY;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 13144282738     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2004.005864     Document Type: Article

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