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Mobile operators have their LTE networks ready, but are not...

Mobile operators have their LTE networks ready, but are not prepared to manage subscriber billing and are unclear on how to generate revenue from LTE, transaction management provider Openet found in a survey released Wednesday. Telecoms.com Intelligence surveyed 200 operators…

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to get the results, Openet said. More than 90 percent of surveyed operators thought it was important to take a real-time approach to mobile data billing, but more than 80 percent indicated their existing postpaid billing systems were unable to provide for real-time billing, according to Openet. “Advanced Policy and Charging Control (PCC) systems can work with legacy investments so that operators can evolve without needing to rip and replace existing billing systems,” Chris Hoover, Openet’s vice president of marketing, said in a news release (http://xrl.us/bnpgv4).