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Always Test Before You Launch: The PortaOne Billing Simulator Unveiled
The PortaOne Billing Simulator is our lean experiment to bring simulation-driven development to telecom billing. Inspired by healthcare, space, and SaaS, we’re building a tool to safely test telco pricing ideas, validate profitability, and integrate with CRMs, before you ever go live.

PortaOne YouTube: How We Learned to Educate (and Sell) with Video
PortaOne YouTube channel was an evolutionary path for our team. Discover why George Lucas contributed to its success, how the bombings of Ukraine “spoiled” the soundtrack and how our designer managed the last-minute escape from Kherson to discover his superpowers of talking art to robots.

5G 101: Transformative Leap or Vanity Technology?
5G is here, but so many questions remain. Where is the telecom world heading with it? How do 5G networks work? Is a 5G platform worth investing in? And what regions are making good headway? Here, our investigative team at PortaOne tries to collect all the answers and figure out once and for all what today’s communication services providers should do with 5G.

PortaOne Documentation Portal: Growing from One-PDF-Fits-All into a Modern Knowledge Base
Does a good product need a manual? In SaaS business, you bet it does, and it better be a darn good manual! Discover how the PortaOne team experimented with different formats and media for over two decades of customer service to deliver the best product documentation you’ll ever need in telecom.

Want to Deliver a More Profitable Cloud PBX Service? Don’t Sell a Product, Sell Productivity
Looking for some new ideas for expanding your cloud PBX service? You’ve come to the right blog. True, this may at first seem like a typical PortaOne big-picture story about the history of change in telecom – but in reality it’s an idea factory for unlocking new cloud PBX and call center revenue streams. (And cultivating stronger customer relationships while you’re at it.)

African ISP Billing and Monetization: Fixed Wireless, 5G Trends, and Traditional Providers’ Survival
The big questions keeping CSPs and ISPs up at night are the same ones that have kept rural communities in regions like Africa disconnected (in many senses of the word). Is there a glut of fiber? How can we afford the infrastructure? And what is 5G going to bring? As it turns out, there is a way to deliver growth and connection to remote areas – and have everyone profit from the effort. Read on to find out how.

What Is Telecom Billing Management? How Real-Time Tracking and Other New Technologies Put an End to Shock Billing (and the Mastodon Vendor Era)
In the mastodon era of telecommunications (think: huge companies; slow, lumbering change), telecom billing and charging was a complex and error-prone process that frustrated both the phone companies and their customers. But times have changed – a lot, and for the better. So, let’s dive into the evolution of telecom billing software, and how it is liberating telcos and users alike from high prices and low choices.