Alltel to CARE for BellSouth Billing.Alltel Corp. will manage billing for United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. wireless customers of competitor BellSouth Corp. under agreements announced last week. Under the terms of the five-year contracts, Little Rock-based Alltel will license the rights to Atlanta-based BellSouth's "Customer Assistance Resource Environment" billing system. Alltel will then manage and support billing for BellSouth's estimated 5.3 million domestic Wireless customers. Financial terms of the agreements were not disclosed. In addition to operating the CARE system for BellSouth Wireless See BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network. , Alltel will have the ability to market that system internationally to BellSouth companies and affiliates. The CARE system has a specific information systems protocol, known as GSM, that is more compatible internationally than is the system Alltel has used, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Alltel officials. "Alltel will be able to introduce CARE to the international market," Roger Leitner, president of Alltel Information Systems' telecommunications group, said. Alltel will assume operations for the CARE billing system as well as providing technical and operations support for BellSouth Domestic Wireless. Customer billing and related customer care will be managed and supported by Alltel through BellSouth Wireless' Atlanta data center. BellSouth expects to reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and add new revenue from Alltel's remarketing of the CARE system, BellSouth officials said. The CARE system currently supports activation, rating and billing for 4.7 million of BellSouth's domestic wireless customers. An additional 800,000 BellSouth PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. customers will be converted to the system, said BellSouth. A regional Bell operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. primarily located in the southeast U.S., BellSouth has been the fourth largest wireless company in the nation, with a total of about 5.3 million customers. Alltel had more than 5 million customers, but a recently announced deal to swap some wireless properties with Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Corp. will move Alltel ahead of BellSouth with 5.8 million customers. |
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