Welcome to Poulos Ponderings written by Tony Poulos. Through this blog Tony documents his work and other things that interest or annoy him. Hope you find something of interest here. Feel free to comment at any time.
Tony has been involved with software development and systems integration in travel and telecommunications for over 20 years. He was involved in the development of convergent billing system in the early nineties in Australia and from there he worked in a business development role with Unisys’ Telecommunications Practice in Europe. He was co-founder of Copernicus Global Billing Services, a London based, web-enabled, managed service provider for outsourced billing and payments collection. He established RA vendor, Connexn Technologies, Inc. in Asia in 2004 and then worked for a time with Lavastorm, another leading revenue assurance vendor. Tony’s company, Facilitasia Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, consulted on Business Support Solutions business in Asia and was acquired in 2006 by Canadian listed company OceanLake Commerce, Inc.
Tony has become an international authority on telecoms Business Support Systems (BSS) with strong knowledge in billing, revenue assurance, managed services, adjunct/ consolidated billing, payments, NFC and mobile content delivery. He is a renowned speaker and chairman of telecoms conferences around the world.
He is a regular contributor to industry publications worldwide, was a Contributing Analyst for IDC and was Editor, Asia Pacific for Telecom TV. Tony served as an executive of the Global Billing Association for five years prior to its merger with the TM Forum where he headed up the Revenue Management Sector until August 2010. He is now its BSS Evangelist and acts as Anchor for The Telecom Channel.