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Preventing Disruptions in the Customer Experience

Executive Perspectives
One-on-one interviews with industry leaders
Tim Marsden Tim Marsden
Chief Technologist, Communications, Media and Entertainment
Hewlett-Packard
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Share with us the scope of your position as chief technologist at Hewlett-Packard.
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Neil Cox Neil Cox
Vice President, Business Marketing Group
Qwest Communications
Q.
Quest Communications sells leading-edge data, voice, and IP communications of all sizes, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. Tell us about some of Quest Communications' most recent advancements.
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Technology Briefing
White papers covering news, studies, and trends

There remains an ongoing need for scalable, standards-based operations support systems that can complement the flexible service delivery model defined by the service delivery platforms vendors and help providers get new services operational quickly.

This paper focuses on the critical role that standards-based provisioning and activation platforms play in getting IMS services operational in an SDP-driven back office.

Web ProForum
Tutorials featuring the latest technical and business issues
When ordering a new service or maintaining an existing service, consumers must take into account the following three key factors: the quality of the service, the price of the service, and the customer service of the service provider.

To acquire and retain loyal customers, telecommunications service providers should consider a customer care system which will be discussed in this tutorial.

Definition and Overview

  1. An Environment without a Customer Care System
  2. Develop or Buy
  3. Needs of Consumers
  4. Needs of Service Providers
  5. Technology for Customer Care
  6. Functional Requirements of a Customer Care System
  7. Customer Service
  8. Telemarketing
  9. Repair
  10. Implementation
  11. Self-Test
Analyst Corner
Perspectives from leading information industry experts
Analyst Corner PDF Interview Summary
George Nazi, in an interview with Current Analysis, underscores a central remit of carrier NGN: namely not to disrupt existing services while building flexible infrastructure, and that ultimately customers will decide the future successful products.


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