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News Headlines

• SunCom Wireless Renews Contract with Convergys 12/18/06
• Citigroup, MasterCard, Cingular and Nokia Team Up on Mobile Phone PayPass Payments 12/15/06
• Cable Makes Comeback With Digital Phone 12/12/06
• Equifax Customizes Decisioning Solutions for Telecommunications and Utility Companies 12/1/06
• FTC Takes ISP to Task Over Telemarketing 11/22/06
• Water Authority Grants Exclusive Deal to Collection Agency 11/15/06
• TeleTech Expands Agreement With Top U.S. Cable Operator 11/14/06
• ntl Telewest Selects Convergys Billing and Customer Care Solution 11/13/06
• James K. Noble, Jr. Receives ATA Pioneer Award 10/11/06
• Telephone Record Seller Settles FTC Charges 10/9/06
• Reverse Lookup Site Cellulartrace.com Has New Look; New Owner 10/5/06
• TeleTech Launches Spanish-Language Program for Fortune 500 Communications Provider 9/26/06
• Cleveland Gets Collection Agency to Help with Unpaid Electric Bills 9/12/06
• Verizon Petitions to Pass Collection Costs on to Customers 9/12/06
• Collection Agency Settles with State AG Over Added Fees 9/1/06
• Telecom's Collection Arm Acquires Debt Collector and Debt Purchaser 8/11/06
• North Carolina Sues Telecom Telemarketer For Deception 8/7/06
• PIC Solutions Exhibits at MasterCard’s International Fraud Conference 7/18/06
• Teleperformance Sets up in Hungary 6/22/06
• TeleTech Expands Relationship With Leading Communications Provider 6/22/06
• Brokers Selling Phone Data to Feds 6/21/06
• U.S. Teleservices Market Projected to Exceed $20 Billion 6/20/06
• State's Homeland Security Hotline Befouled By Telemarketers 6/20/06
• TeleTech Announces Agreement to Acquire Direct Alliance Corporation 6/16/06
• Portfolio Recovery Associates Creates New Utility Division Head Position 6/15/06
• LiveVox, Inc. Announces Asset Management Outsourcing, Inc. as a New Customer 6/14/06
• Atlantic Credit & Finance Grows its Collections Business with Collection Center Technology from Noble Systems 6/14/06
• Liberty Wireless Selects PeopleSupport to Provide World-class Customer Support 6/12/06
• Telemarketing Scheme Gets Man a 5-year Sentence 6/9/06
• Sprint Nextel Sues IBM For $6.4m Over Failed Outsourcing 5/26/06
• Massive Telemarketing Scam Busted 5/24/06
• SR.Teleperformance Expands Asia Pacific Footprint 5/18/06
• Sprint Nextel ordered to pay collection company $17M 5/18/06
• Noble Systems and Intelligent Results Form Strategic Partnership 5/17/06
• Paper reports NSA collecting phone records 5/11/06
• Kansas Consumers to Be Reimbursed After "Live Check" Scheme 5/5/06
• FBI Buys Illegally Acquired Phone Records for Investigations 5/5/06
• TeleTech Reports Increase in Revenues and Earnings in First Quarter 2006 5/4/06
• State Passes Cell Phone Telemarketing Law with Debt Collector Exemption 5/3/06
• NSTN Launches New Reverse Cell and Reverse Non-Published Phone Listings 4/28/06
• Thai collection agency expanding rapidly 4/27/06
• Malaysian Phone Company Blaming Collection Agency for $218 trillion Mistake 4/13/06
• Mobile Users Account for 85% of the Telephone Subscriber Base in Africa 4/11/06
• $5,000,000 Lawsuit Filed Against Verizon Wireless for Collecting a Fraudulent Cellular Phone Bill Despite Numerous Disputes 4/10/06
• Man gets $218 trillion Phone Bill 4/10/06
• Congressman Under Fire for Selling Cellphone Records 4/7/06
• PayPal Launches Mobile Payments 4/6/06
• West Corporation Completes Intrado Acquisition 4/5/06
• Largest Mobile Operator in Thailand selects Revenue Assurance Solution from WeDo Soft 4/4/06
• Telecom Egypt Selects Convergys to Consolidate Billing Operations 3/27/06

Analysis Headlines

• Debt Buyers’ Growing Interest in Alternative Asset Classes

Research Headlines

• Global Debt Buying Report - Chapter 9: Telecommunications Receivables in the U.S.