Global customer care and billing solutions provider CSG Systems has announced that satellite television provider Sky Italia will expand its use of the award-winning CSG Kenan/BP billing platform.

An official release informs that under the new agreement, Sky Italia will support up to four million subscribers on the platform. This includes new customers that will be added to the system following the merger of Tele+ and Stream. The resulting entity was Sky Italia. Sky Italia will consolidate its entire customer base billing to the CSG Kenan/BP engine, taking advantage of the system's flexibility to support innovative pricing schemes and ability to introduce new services in demand. Sky Italia uses CSG Kenan/BP to process customer transactions from rating to invoicing.

Sky Italia has stated that the CSG Kenan/BP platform has helped it quickly launch new services and combine the two customers bases onto a single system. "As a result of its ability to scale to handle large volumes of subscribers while still providing the flexibility that Sky Italia needs to launch new services the company has decided to consolidate all of our billing with CSG.

The release adds that cable and satellite providers are seeing tremendous growth in the variety of available services they can offer to customers. As a result, back-office systems must be able to handle the introduction of new services frequently and quickly to support the operator's efforts. A server configurable billing engine such as CSG Kenan/BP is a perfect fit for this type of environment.

CSG Kenan/BP is a real-time billing platform that rates and bills for any transaction-based service in the mobile and wireline telephony, cable/satellite and IP markets. With a worldwide customer base, the CSG Kenan/BP solution supports any language in any currency and claims to be deployed in over 40 countries.