Wataniya deploys CSG wholesale billing management solution

The Kuwaiti mobile operator Wataniya Telecom has contracted business support solutions (BSS) provider CSG International to supply it with a wholesale billing management system. The vendor is deploying its CSG Interconnect solution to automate partner management, carrier-to-carrier rating, billing and settlement and help process disputes management and reconciliation. Wataniya, which is 92.1%-owned by Qtel of Qatar, claimed just over two million subscribers at the end of September 2012 to give it around 37% of Kuwait’s mobile market, according to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database.