A telecom billing system may serve you well, but it may not be able to meet every new requirement. Let’s say, you don’t have a pre-existing partnership with a shipping vendor but you need one to ship your IoT SIMs. In this case, you may choose to customize the software but it is a costly investment. A better way to deal with such situations is to partner with a telecom services provider that can issue an API that immediately lets you partner with a shipping vendor and also lets you manage the partnership and all the related transactions. As APIs help address particular requirements without taking drastic steps like buying a new software solution, they are far more economically viable in such scenarios. Convergent billing Customers of today seek complete transparency in billing. This can only be done if you employ cloud-based solutions that come with a centralized charging system like an OCS. An OCS charges all the services – both event-based and session-based – at the same p
