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Efficient and High Flexible IP Service Provisioning
With a turnover of more than EUR 2.1 billion (as of today, USD $3.3 billion), Arcor is the number one solution of the alternative telecommunication providers in the German fixed network market. Arcor offers a wide spectrum of voice, internet, and data services for private and business customers over its wide area voice and data network throughout Germany. [Read more…]
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New contract wins for its Revenue Maximization and Fulfilment Assurance solutions continue to be recorded by Subex Limited within the Latin America region. The company had closed seven new customer deals within one of the fastest-growing BSS/OSS markets in the world, during the past six months. [Read more…]
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New Name Better Reflects Company’s Focus on Communications Asset Management
Digital Fairway will be changing its name to Commsolv Corporation, as announced by Dennis dos Santos, Chief Executive Officer, Commsolv Corporation. The company’s focus, which is delivering software solutions that help enterprises and service providers address the challenges of better managing their communication infrastructures, is more accurately reflected by the new name. The company’s on-demand Software as a Service (SaaS) application delivery model is also more appropriately reflected by the new name. SaaS makes it easy for all customers to access the application over the Internet. [Read more…]
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Subex Ltd. won a contract from Fintur Group, a major mobile operator consortium located across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to deliver Fraud Management solutions across all its group companies. Gantek Technologies is the project’s integrator, acts as the turnkey solution provider for the whole deployment, and is a leading Information and Communication Technologies provider in the region. The deployments will initially start with Moldcell (Moldova), Geocell (Georgia), Azercell (Azerbaijan), and Kcell (Kazakhstan). [Read more…]
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Mobile subscribers in Europe that use location-based services are expected to number more than 100 million by 2012, according to a new report from the telecom research firm Berg Insight. The top applications are believed to be mapping, navigation, and search followed by [Read more…]
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RateIntegration, the leading provider of advanced rating solutions for service providers, has recently told OSS News Review about the selection and successful implementation of its Advanced Rating Server (ARS 3.0) software by iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS), a leading international long distance carrier and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and enhanced services for mobile operators. [Read more…]
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Comarch launched their OSS Mobile Network Integration, which is a preconfigured OSS solution for GSM/UMTS operators. These operators search for a NGOSS concept based product in the area of inventory management or service assurance. The software bundle is based on Comarch OSS Suite, which is a network and service management platform and is the result of years of experience in OSS projects with large European mobile operators. [Read more…]
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Commitment to broadband cable market underscored and Operations Support
Systems (OSS) service fulfillment offering expands with acquisition
Amdocs announced it acquired Jacobs Rimell, Ltd. (Jacobs Rimell) for approximately $45 million in cash, net of cash on hand, subject to post-closing adjustments. With this acquisition, Amdocs continues to execute on its strategy of being the leader in customer experience systems for the broadband cable industry and the OSS market. [Read more…]
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Today, TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. announced that the France Telecom group selected and certified it as the resource and service supervision solution Group Core Component (GCC) standard for the strategic NExT program. In addition, TTI Telecom has become the recommended provider of resource and service supervision solutions for new projects across the entire France Telecom group, which is present in more than 220 countries and territories, serving over 170 million customers by providing the solution over fixed, mobile and Internet networks, service platforms, and IT resources. [Read more…]
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Highdeal has successfully deployed its solution at Hub télécom to manage the to real-time pricing and billing of its services. [Read more…]
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After its selection of SKYLINE Communications’ flagship DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform for the end-to-end management of its solutions portfolio, ENENSYS Technologies announced today that it had achieved DataMiner Strategic Partner status. Leading operators across the globe have already deployed DataMiner, as it is one of the most advanced NMS available in the industry. Having open architecture and advanced capabilities, enable Enensys customers create an end-to-end perspective on their systems, across any vendor or technology boundaries. [Read more…]
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Telcos seeking to improve American public safety and network resiliency for all is seen by leading emergency stand alone switch provider
While most people know to call 9-1-1 in an emergency situation not everyone is aware of the limitations of the system given the expanding variety of wireless devices used and the variations in service by location. The telecommunications industry plays a unique role in transmitting emergency calls and helping public safety officials locate people needing help. In today’s ever-changing communications landscape, telecommunications providers are responding to the need for increased network resiliency by modernizing existing systems through Emergency Stand Alone (ESA) systems. [Read more…]
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National requirements for data retention of voice call and other services data obtained with Comptel solution
Comptel Corporation announced that Comptel Data Retention Solution has been deployed by a Middle Eastern operator. The purpose of the solution is to collect and retain data related to voices calls and usage of other services. Serious crimes, including terrorism, can then be combated by authorities with these data. [Read more…]
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Orange Cameroon has taken the benefits of the Astellia solution for many years to monitor the Quality of Service of its GSM and GPRS network. One of the leading operators in the challenging Cameroon’s market is Orange. [Read more…]
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IP Connectivity Enables Mobile Operators to Turn Profit at the Edge
Mobile operators are helped to embrace flat rate pricing plans by Sonus Networks, Inc. without the major increases to operating costs usually associated with increased traffic or subscribers. The Sonus core infrastructure components can be integrated to enable operators to retain competitive pricing models through IP-to-IP peering, advanced media services and transcoder-free operation. Sonus Networks is exhibiting these and other wireless solutions at CTIA 2008, Las Vegas, at Booth #3439. [Read more…]
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Solution brings new workflow capabilities for productivity gains and provides the technology infrastructure to support the progressive MVNO’s growing member base
Info Directions announced that San Francisco-based MVNO CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets Wireless) has completed installation of its CostGuard® XG operations and billing system to support a growing member base. [Read more…]
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Telecom Asia magazine announced today that Telstra Corp., Softbank Mobile, and SingTel are among the finalists competing for Asia’s leading telecom industry honors.
The 11th Telecom Asia Awards honors will be presented next Tuesday, April 8. The shortlist of nominees, which were released ahead of the presentation, covers ten categories, from mobile to managed services to new technology.
Telstra has been shortlisted in three categories – Best Mobile, Best Broadband and CEO of the Year – while Softbank and SingTel both picked up nominations for the mobile and CEO honors.
Malaysia’s DiGi and KTF from Korea are also up for final selection in the hotly-contested mobile category.
Bill Barney of Pacnet is the fourth finalist for CEO of the Year, competing against Softbank’s Masayhoshi Son, SingTel’s Allen Lew, and Telstra’s Sol Trujillo.
In a new category, Telecom Innovation of the Year, six ground-breaking products won through to the final.
The Best Asian Telecom Carrier will be chosen from among the winners of all the carrier categories.
Joseph Waring, Group Editor of Telecom Asia, said: “These awards are intended to recognize outstanding achievement by Asian telecom service providers. The addition of a new category for innovation highlights the pressure on carriers to develop fresh product segments and services to gain competitive advantage.”
The awards are chosen by an independent panel of industry experts, making their selections based on financial performance, technology, market leadership, and corporate governance.
The judging panel is supported by analysis from the global IT telecom and software research firm Ovum.
Last year’s biggest winner was SK Telecom, which took out the overall prize for Best Asian Telecom Carrier as well as Best Mobile Carrier. Allen Lew, chief of SingTel Singapore, won the CEO prize and Indian telco Bharti Airtel was voted Best Emerging Market Carrier.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony at Indigo Pearl, Phuket, Thailand, held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Executive Forum, which is being organized by Intec.
About Telecom Asia
Telecom Asia is Asia’s largest regional telecom publishing group. It publishes the magazines Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia, and Charged and the Website www.telecomasia.net, aimed at telecommunications professionals around the region. Combined, these titles serve more than 100,000 subscribers.
For more information, please visit their website: http://www.telecomasia.net
About Ovum
Ovum’s primary activity is providing value-added advisory services and consulting to retain and project clients. The company acts as a well-respected and trusted source of industry data, knowledge and expertise on the commercial impact of technology, and regulatory and market changes. Ovum engages in continuous research and industry analysis to determine market dynamics in its specialist sectors.
Ovum has developed long-standing relationships with many of its corporate clients, which include major international blue-chip companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra, and Vodafone.
Ovum is part of the Datamonitor Group.
For more information, please visit their website: http://www.ovum.com/
Websites: http://www.telecomasia.net
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Value of Dynamic Business Modeling highlighted by Independent analyst house
A new whitepaper titled “Supporting Business Transformation: More than IT can handle” by Stratecast, Frost & Sullivan is being published.
Karl Whitelock, Senior Consulting Analyst, OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies (OSSCS), authored the paper that examines how service convergence is placing heretofore demands on Business Support Systems. Particularly in the area of billing, It concludes that assumptions governing systems development and implementation projects “only a few short years ago are no longer valid in today’s changing business environment.” [Read more…]
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One Number, One Voicemail, One Call A Reality Demonstrated At CTIA 2008
Sonus Networks, Inc. and ip.access are answering the demands of mobile subscribers for an integrated approach to voice communication and opening up new revenue opportunities for both mobile and wireline operators through fixed mobile convergence. [Read more…]
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INSPIRATIONcompact Honored for Outstanding Innovation
INSPIRATIONcompact received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions (CIS) magazine®, as announced today by ASC. The CIS magazine has been the leading publication covering CRM, call centers, and teleservices since 1982. [Read more…]