CBIS chosen by TCI Telephony Services, Inc. for cable telephony billing.CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1996---CBIS(R) announces the signing of an outsourced cable telephony See cable telephone. billing and customer management contract with TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. Telephony Services, Inc., a unit of TCI Communications, Inc. Under terms of the three-year agreement, CBIS CBIS Computer Based Information System CBIS Christian Brothers Investment Services CBIS Cincinnati Bell Information Systems CBIS Chinese Biodiversity Information System CBIS Certified Brain Injury Specialist will provide customer management and billing services including rating, service order entry, and bill finishing, as TCI Telephony Services enters the telephony market. CBIS will utilize several billing modules from Commsoft, Inc., an Albany, New York-based provider of wireline telephony software, in CBIS's newly-opened, $80 million, Orlando Data Center complex. "We are pleased to be working with CBIS in preparation for the introduction of local phone service in select TCI communities," said Jerry Gaines, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TCI Telephony Services, Inc. "This contract marks a significant milestone for CBIS by providing a strategic asset to cable companies as they launch into additional communications segments," said Robert J. Marino, president and CEO of CBIS. "We are very pleased to support TCI's efforts with our billing and customer care experience, our service bureau expertise, and our uncompromising reliability." "The CBIS platform offers a solution for customer billing and management, along side our aggressive development of TCI's SUMMITrak system," said Sadie Decker, senior vice president for TCI Advanced Information Technology. "CBIS's new facility and telephony experience are complementary to the TCI product offerings." "We view TCI's offering of cable telephony as an important step in communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. convergence," said Tom Smaldone, president of CBIS's Cable and Broadband Solutions Group. "We are actively working with our clients on the challenges surrounding convergence to ensure we are there with customer management and billing solutions to meet their specific requirements." ABOUT CBIS CBIS is Cincinnati Bell Cincinnati Bell is the dominant telephone company for Cincinnati, Ohio and its nearby suburbs in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The parent company is named Cincinnati Bell Inc. Information Systems, the global leader in the provision and management of customer care and billing solutions for the communications industry. CBIS's state-of-the-art data center infrastructure centered in Cincinnati and Orlando, and client sites, produce more than 225,000,000 bills for cable TV, wireless and wireline telephony, and convergent services each year. CBIS uses its extensive billing systems expertise and service bureau experience to create advantages for leading companies in wireless, wireline, cable, and emerging communications services. CBIS -- a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSN CSN Crosby, Stills, and Nash (band) CSN Centrala studiestödsnämnden (Swedish: state education grant and loan program) CSN Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (French) ) -- is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to a diverse work force. CBIS is on the Internet at http://www.cbis.com CBIS is a registered service mark of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. CONTACT: Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, Cincinnati John Pratt, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager, 800/327-3900 or 500/447-2247, In the U.K. 0800.895.185 E-Mail: john.pratt(at sign)cbis.com |
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