Peter-Service provides Geocell with its billing solution
St. Petersburg, Russia – Peter-Service was picked by Geocell, a Georgian mobile operator – part of the international group, Telia Company, to deliver a billing solution. The project started in 2016 when the operator’s postpaid subscribers were migrated to the new system. Since January 2017, all of Geocell’s postpaid charging and billing processes have been handled by Peter-Service software products.
With its ambition to provide the most outstanding customer experience in all its touchpoints, Geocell constantly works on technological upgrades of all its existing systems. Billing system is one of the core solutions, which enables the company to run the flawless operations in order to provide the above-mentioned experience of the best customer service. Company runs separate billing systems for prepaid and postpaid subscribers. With the partnership of Peter Service Geocell made migration from the former postpaid billing system to a new one.
According to Mete Arig, CTO at Geocell, the current project had been one of the complex and difficult ones, considering its scale and time constraints. “Indeed we call it a success. Thanks to the winning combo of competent staff and the right partner – Peter-Service, we managed to achieve positive results”, he says.
Since the beginning of 2017, all of Geocell’s postpaid subscribers have been served by the solution delivered by Peter-Service. The new system from Peter-Service offers a broad array of advanced features and capabilities that are in demand in today’s market: billing is run online; all program components are based on a modular architecture; the system is ready to accommodate frequent changes of any scale to fit the operator’s goals. In 2017, Peter-Service is planning to upgrade the interfaces and some other components of the solution in order to facilitate subscriber management through improved transparency and performance.
“Working on a very tight schedule, we carried out the project in just 8 months. Such a quick transformation would not have been possible without Peter-Service’s solid experience in BSS replacement projects and the combined tireless efforts of the two teams – the team from Peter-Service and the operator’s team. We managed not only to keep every bit of the functionality that Geocell had developed over 15 years but also to add new features that would enable the operator to introduce long overdue changes. Peter-Service considers BSS transformation a strategic priority, and we are going to put a stronger focus on it in 2017 as we feel a genuine interest from operators in the markets we are working in,” noted Sergey Tverdokhlebov, Sales Director at Peter-Service.
About Peter-Service
Founded in 1992 and based in St. Petersburg, Peter-Service became the first company in Russia to create a billing system for a mobile network operator. Today, with over 20 years of history, Peter-Service ranks among Russia’s top IT companies and is a technology and market leader in software solutions for the telecommunications industry, focusing on OSS/BSS development, deployment and maintenance.
Our team of dedicated professionals has built up extensive experience in implementing projects for major mobile and fixed-line operators in Russia, CIS countries and other markets. The company currently employs a workforce of more than 1,200 people, which includes the staff of Peter-Service R&D, a subsidiary with a permanent resident status at the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Peter-Service has successfully completed over 120 projects for more than 50 telecom operators. Over 100 million mobile and fixed-line subscribers in 13 countries use our solutions on a daily basis. Our major customers include MegaFon, Rostelecom, Kyivstar, MTS, Vodafone, МТТ, KKTcell and 21st Century. Our quality management system meets the ISO 9001:2008 standard requirements with regard to designing, developing, deploying, supporting and integrating software for automating telecom operators’ operations.
With leading-edge technology and a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services, we are perfectly placed to deliver large-scale projects, helping telecom operators with any challenges they may face while ensuring the highest standard of service.
