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I wouldn't say glorious but if it's anything like telecom billing system, I'm glad I don't work with them anymore.
by gtirloni 7y ago
I wouldn't say glorious but if it's anything like telecom billing system, I'm glad I don't work with them anymore.
- stevekemp 7y agoOne of my earliest jobs was working for a mobile-phone billing company, in Scotland. Every day we'd use UUCP to copy billing-records from random-systems to a central host, running SCO Unixware. Then the daily "billing run" would total, reconcile, and massage the data. The result of the processing would be a pile of CSV files which would then get further massaged by a collection of Perl scripts. Days I definitely do not miss!
- abraae 7y agoI did some consulting for a Telco on their billing run. It ran on a very, very large computer for its day. The run typically took 16+ hours, sometimes as many as 22 hours, leading to some very white knuckle moments when it threatened to delay the start of the next day's run.
- Aloha 7y agoFor every telecom company I worked for, billing was a mess.