BLU-RAY won the high definition format war over Toshiba’s HD-DVD format.  On February 19^th 2008 Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation announced in a PR that, “We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called ‘next-generation format war’ and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,”  According to Nishida, the Time Warner announcement of January 4^th 2008 stating that Time Warner will  support only the BLU-RAY standard,  had a tremendous impact on Toshiba’s decision to give up on the HD-DVD.   Read the rest of this entry »

In Google alerts I often get RA position descriptions, so I decided to do a completely non-scientific survey. I googled, “Revenue Assurance Specialist jobs”. Below are the first relevant results I got.

Certainly given the way I conducted the survey, any conclusions are at the reader’s own discretion. Yet if you are looking for a job as a “Revenue Assurance Specialist” be prepared to at least know how to type, and preferably in windows 98 J

During my undergraduate studies I took a bunch of courses in Philosophy. One of my recreations was “Reductio ad absurdum”, where you basically take the  writings of some of the great philosophers and manage to arrive at contradictory and/or absurd conclusions. Last week I had a very interesting conversation that reminded me of my past hobby, and I admit in advance that I am over simplifying …;

1. The regulation penalizes Service Providers for having too many incorrect charging/un-billed CDRs etc.

2. RA’s job (among others) involves discovering leakages, including incorrect charging /un-billed CDRs etc.

3. Discovering leakages, in many cases results in the recovery of leakages

4. Discovering Leakages, in many cases results in finding the root of problems and avoiding the same problem from reoccurring

5. For Service Providers to improve their profitability and future compliance to regulatory requirements they have to find and prevent the reoccurrence of leakages. But this exposes the fines themselves. However by not looking seriously for leakages, the Service Provider loses money, but is compliant. In some cases the same person is in charge of the Regulatory compliance and Revenue Assurance. Go figure.