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Your AI Cost Problem: AI Margins Live Between Two Invoices
Rob Sikorski
July 2, 2026
At the end of each month, AI service companies face a glaring structural gap between customer invoices and vendor bills that rarely meet at the account level. While finance can see total revenue and overall costs, they often remain blind to per-customer profitability. Modern AI billing infrastructure must bridge this gap, transforming margin from a monthly estimate into a precisely measured output.
Technology
Yes, We Can (and Should!) Streamline Telecom Operations
Smart telcos are driving growth with automated workflows. Want to know why… and how? Join us in an automation revolution as we unravel the short, transformative history of integration, data syncs, and the backend automation of eSim activation, iPaaS, 5G, and more.
Lynn Puzzo
September 12, 2023
Technology
Scratch Cards Are Dead! Long Live the New Scratch Cards
Scratch cards, gift cards, vouchers – they go by different names (and different forms), but the card market has long been intertwined with the global telco and e-commerce industries. And, as it turns out, its future may be too. Read our story about the fascinating evolution of what was once the cardboard king of the kiosk rack, and why we’re still placing bets on the scrappy scratcher.
Oleksandra Didukh
August 29, 2023
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The Inside Story of PortaOne Support: The Origins
In the first part of a long and wide-ranging saga, we tell you how our PortaOne Support team sprouted out of two Kyiv apartment kitchens, when we launched our call center, and how our first CSM came onto our team.
Hennadiy Kornev
August 7, 2023
Trade
PortaBilling Alternatives in SaaS: Teams That Inspire Us and How We See Our Niche
Why is the “subscription economy” era nearing its end? What is the promise of consumption-based billing? Read further to know how the PortaBilling team is learning to build great usage-based SaaS billing systems beyond telecom from Metronome, Moesif, Zuora, and… Sun Tzu.
Hennadiy Kornev
July 17, 2023
Technology
Doing Business Like a B/OSS: Why BSS and OSS Have Become the Backbone of Telecom (and IoT)
In this story, we do a deep dive into two of the key initialisms in today’s sea of tech letter sets: BSS and OSS. Read on to learn why these two systems are becoming the main pillars of any modern telecom.
Anton Pustovoi
June 28, 2023
Trade
PortaBilling Beyond Telecom: Spotting Industries, Technologies, and Our Competitive Edge
How is billing different from invoicing, charging, and service provisioning? Why is the “subscription economy” era nearing its end? What is consumption-based billing, and why is it an industry changer? We interview the PortaBilling team to deliver their expertise to you.
Hennadiy Kornev
June 5, 2023