SunTec announced the launch of its end-to-end IPTV billing solution, TBMS IPTV, at the TeleStrategies Billing & OSS World 2006 being held at Miami, Florida. IPTV is emerging as a key vehicle for telecom operators, cable MSOs and satellite providers to launch innovative services for their subscribers.
TBMS IPTV is an integrated end-to-end customer care and billing solution for IPTV services built around SunTec’s TBMS-T suite of products. It is designed to address the service providers’ need for differentiation through flexible service bundles tailored to individual customer preferences. TBMS IPTV can interface with multiple network elements and middleware platforms seamlessly to facilitate the creation of customer self-service portals, real-time mediation and charging, creative service bundling, personalized customer management, secure payment processing and revenue settlement, and convergent billing.
"The success of an IPTV service provider depends on his ability to deliver attractive content service bundles at competitive prices along with a reliable and accurate bill", said Mr. K Nanda Kumar, CEO, SunTec. "The launch of TBMS IPTV, a completely rule-based system will ensure flexible creation of innovative service bundles with special rate plans and usage discounts attached to them, thus helping a service provider focus on investment optimization, scalability of business and minimum time-to-market for new products and services".