Revenue Assurance in VOIP

A useful article in the recent Billing World and OSS Today Magazine outlines in some detail what we've all instinctively known about VOIP but were afraid to voice. When you get past the hype (and recognize that a picture of a cloud doesn't tell the whole story), there's still a lot to worry about. In his article, Jerry makes a useful analogy to Cellular service. It too, by its very nature, is highly "portable". But in the early days of analogue cellular service, cloning was easily done and quite rampant. He points out that half of New York City's cellular traffic was unbillable at one point, because you couldn't peg the traffic to a valid subscriber. VOIP service, which touts an ability to hook in to the network at any point with a LAN or Wireless connection, is going to pose similar problems.... Interesting.