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| Author: | Ginzboorg, P. |
| Title: | Seven Comments on Charging and Billing |
| Journal: | Communications of the ACM
2000 : NOV, VOL. 43:11, p. 89-92 |
| Index terms: | FINANCE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERNET TELEPHONE INDUSTRY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | As technology changes, so do delivery and payment arrangements. The author considers charging and billing for telephony service and states that it is based on contract between the customers (buyers) and the telephone company (seller). The telecommunication industry is undergoing three major changes. Then the author describes each of the major changes and further he introduces comments on charging and billing dealing with the telecommunication industry. In the conclusion the author states that the range of the possible charging methods lies between two extremes. The first means that the buyer's charges do not depend on usage of the offered services. The second method is to produce an accounting record for each delivered data packet. |
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