Telenet Group Holding, a provider of broadband cable services in Belgium, has selected Comverse (News - Alert) ONE Billing and Active Customer Management as its real-time rating and billing platform for digital television and mobile services.

Comverse ONE’s real-time functionality is expected to allow Telenet to customize marketing and promotional campaigns to encourage service usage and adoption among its subscribers.

“Convergent real-time rating and billing uniquely gives us the ability to use one system to manage all subscribers consistently, regardless of payment or service type, as well as accelerate the launch of new offers and promotions,” said Jan Vorstermans, executive vice president technology & solutions, Telenet.

Vorstermans said that this gives Telenet the flexibility for key differentiation through personalization and bundled offers across fixed and mobile services.

According to Comverse officials, real-time billing is just one of several deployment modes within the Comverse ONE solution, which is a converged Business Support System or, “BSS” that enables multi-play operators to support any type of payment, such as prepaid, postpaid or hybrid.

Comverse ONE also allows operators to create and deliver any service over its network quickly and efficiently.

"Comverse is very pleased to be selected by Telenet, Belgium's largest cable broadband provider, as we believe that our BSS solution makes an excellent fit with the needs of cable telecom operators," said Urban Gillstrom, group president of global sales at Comverse.

Gillstrom said that as more operators become quad-service players, Comverse ONE Billing and Active Customer Management is an ideal BSS solution due to its single data model approach and unified architecture that reduce complexity and speeds time to market with its ability to support any service, any network, and any payment type - all natural advantages in multi-play environments.