Around the world, telecom service providers are in various stages of their journey to new value-added services. To succeed, new pricing and business models will be required and, with them, new ways of handling partnerships, revenue distribution, and risk. A convergent handling of the end-to-end revenue management processes will be the cornerstone of successful business for the operator, both in relation to its subscribers and its business partners.

It is no longer neither relevant to segment consumers nor economically justifiable to have two separate systems for users with different payment options-prepaid and postpaid. Nor is it justifiable to address fixed and mobile access networks with different systems for rating, billing, and customer care.

This session will discuss the possibilities and issues in the evolution to a converged charging and billing system, for all services and for the whole subscriber base-no matter prepaid or postpaid, fixed or mobile.

Jaco Fourie Director for Business Development and Strategies for Revenue Management, Business Unit Multimedia Ericsson

Mr. Fourie has 19 years of telecom experience in fixed and mobile communications and 10 years of charging and billing experience with focus in the real-time charging area. After working for fixed-line and mobile operators in South Africa, he moved to Ericsson 10 years ago as director of product management for its prepaid and mediation solutions and developed both these world-leading products to a complete revenue-management portfolio. Today, Mr. Fourie sets the long-term strategies for Ericsson with respect to the revenue management and payment areas.

Hatice Alemdar Technical Solutions Planning, Billing and Charging Head Turkcell

Ms. Alemdar has a total of 17 years of telecom experience, including seven years at Nortel Neta? and nine years at Turkcell. She is responsible for technical solutions planning of billing and charging and has started her mobile experience with a focus on real-time billing charging solutions. Ms. Alemdar sets short- and long-term strategies to carry Turkcell's technical architecture to support more than 30 million subscribers.

Colin Orviss Co-Founder, Chief Strategist, and International Telecommunications Advisor Logan-Orviss International

Mr. Orviss has more than 30 years of experience in the communications arena, having worked in senior engineering positions at British Telecom and Sonera Finland and in senior international roles at a major U.S. corporation. Although he has engineering degrees from both the United Kingdom and Finland, his expertise has evolved over the years to now focus predominantly on telecom operator business change management, information systems (BSS and OSS) and advanced service offerings.

Stefan Wallin Strategic Product Manager Ericsson

Mr. Wallin is responsible for the evolution of the portfolio of Ericsson's products and coordination with services in revenue management. Mr. Wallin has worked at Ericsson for 10 years with focus on charging and billing in real time. In addition to portfolio management, Mr. Wallin has been a driving force in R&D in the charging and billing area at Ericsson.