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Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy)

byHuawei
in
4.6
Market Presence: CSP Customer Management and Experience Solutions, CSP Revenue Management and Monetization Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy)?

Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) is a software designed for telecommunications providers to support unified billing processes across multiple services including voice, data, and multimedia. The software integrates rating, charging, and invoicing functionalities for both prepaid and postpaid models. It manages customer accounts and service usage, automating billing cycles and payment collections to streamline revenue management. CBS assists with account balance tracking, transaction management, and supports flexible tariff configurations to adapt to different market needs. The software is built to facilitate reliable financial operations by consolidating user account information from various network platforms and service types, enabling efficient handling of large-scale customer billing in legacy environments.

Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy) Pricing

Convergent Billing Solution software uses a licensing-based pricing model, which typically involves an initial license fee and ongoing maintenance or support fees. Pricing may vary based on the scale of deployment, required features, and number of subscribers managed by the software. Customization and integration services may incur additional charges.

Overall experience with Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy)

PLANNING ENGINEER
500M - 1B USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“The implementation requires a lot of planning to reduce development and testing times, sof”

5.0
Dec 23, 2019
CBS is a very versatile system for mobile and fixed service providers, it can be adapted to the needs of the business.
DWH PROGRAMMER
50M - 250M USD, Telecommunication
CRITICAL

“ongoing migration from multiple billing systems to CBS”

3.0
Aug 7, 2018
We bought CBS to have only one billing system, the main objective since the beginning has been eliminate specialized billing system for different kind of products. Our company is telecomunications related, Overall the experience has been aceptable until now, we had migrated the billing system that we used before for prepaid subscribers. in the middle term migrating postpaid and others types of subscribers is contemplated

About Company

Company Description

Updated 26th April 2024

Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

Company Details

Updated 26th April 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
1987
Head office location
Shenzhen, China
Number of employees
10001+
Website
https://www.huawei.com/en/

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Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

Like

Adaptation of the platform to the business needs.

Like

what i like most of CBS is that it centralized many billing systems into one solution

Like

Strong architecture and scalability.

Dislike

Requires direct specialized support with the manufacturer.

Dislike

configuration takes long time, it doesn't completly support all features on other billing systems, it allows to have interection with other system to complement tarification, but this feature i don't like, you eliminate a billing system, but had to add small billing cooperative system to handle everything you use to have before

Dislike

Less flexibility and less customization. No sufficient english document. No sufficient proficient local staff.

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Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) (Legacy) Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(9 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
67%
4 Star
22%
3 Star
11%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • PLANNING ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    The implementation requires a lot of planning to reduce development and testing times, sof

    5.0
    Dec 23, 2019
    CBS is a very versatile system for mobile and fixed service providers, it can be adapted to the needs of the business.
  • DWH PROGRAMMER
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    ongoing migration from multiple billing systems to CBS

    3.0
    Aug 7, 2018
    We bought CBS to have only one billing system, the main objective since the beginning has been eliminate specialized billing system for different kind of products. Our company is telecomunications related, Overall the experience has been aceptable until now, we had migrated the billing system that we used before for prepaid subscribers. in the middle term migrating postpaid and others types of subscribers is contemplated
  • Infrastructure and Operations
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Good western govenance but weak micro management

    4.0
    Jul 23, 2018
    The old-friend vendor who almost well understands our situation and requirement. Huawei always tries to treat customers well and looks for the future. However, Huawei is changing inside and those changes impact to our requirement and bring some difficulty.
  • General Manager, Construction Department
    10B+ USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Good product, good service

    5.0
    Aug 2, 2018
    Our organization is currently serving multiple industries, including transportation, finance, energy, security protection, and industrial manufacturing. The connections growth more than 10M per month, Huawei IoT platform support it well.
  • Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Implementation was easy but product mapping was not done correctly.

    4.0
    Aug 7, 2017
    Experience was good. Have to be more focused on features and product side. Real expert were available only before migration.
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