Integrated Telecom Solutions, Inc. (ITS), a Richardson, Texas-based telecom solutions company, announces the release of Convergent Services Charging Solutions. Integrated Telecom Solutions’ Convergent Services Charging (CSC) Solutions are an innovative value-added product providing mobile operators a solution with which to gain optimal value from their investments in existing billing and prepay systems with minimal change.
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Telecoms operators should urgently review their outsourcing strategies or risk being out-maneuvered by rivals, according to a new report, Outsourcing by telecoms operators: strategic and commercial options, published by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (http://research.analysys.com).
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NetCracker Technology, the leading global solution Company enabling Service Providers to rapidly deliver and effectively manage convergent and content-rich offerings, today announced that Omnitel has completed its deployment of NetCracker’s OSS solution. The deployment of NetCracker’s service and resource inventory, outside plant, and discovery and reconciliation modules was completed in record time despite complex interplay of diverse systems. The success of the implementation was due to NetCracker’s ability to provide out-of-the-box capability, integration expertise and strong solutions delivery.
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NetCracker Technology, the global OSS solution leader, today announced that its goal at 3GSM was to present the importance of service layer transformation in creating, delivering and assuring new content-rich services.
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Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has today announced the availability of Comptel Incatel NIMS, the convergent inventory for mobile operators to help record, plan, assign and manage efficiently the physical and logical resources in their network.
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Openet today unveils FusionWorks IMS, a fully engineered platform for the support of revenue-critical IMS charging and service control functions. The platform includes FusionWorks PCRF, a combined policy and charging rules management component.
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MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of Web Services-based billing, customer self-care, and partner management solutions, and EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) and its DISH Network have announced that MetraTech has successfully completed a project to deploy MetraTech’s MetraNet platform to deliver the service activation, provisioning and subscriber management functionality required to support a key service offering in late 2005.
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Subscribers can now divert or copy SMS to another mobile phone number or to email with IMF Divert, a revolutionary service that ensure they never miss a message again. Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Divert which is indispensable for business travelers, employees and pre- to post-paid migration. By enabling a number of revolutionary and valuable SMS-based services, IMF Divert helps network operators improve service levels, increase billable events and revenue from text messaging and build loyalty in key high-ARPU market segments.
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Operators’ messaging products stand to receive a new lease of life with Avalanche Mobile’s IMF suite of messaging solutions which provide a range of functions from diversion and prioritization of text messages to protection from spam and control of message delivery.
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Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Control, a breakthrough text messaging control solution which helps parents protect their young children by enabling parents to see who is messaging their child, block suspicious SMS and importantly, temporarily suspend the messaging function of their child’s mobile phone during school hours or other quiet times.
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International Turnkey Systems (ITS), and Tango Telecom have announced a strategic partnership which will see the integration of the ITS Real Time Rating and Billing Platform (TABS) with the Tango Telecom Voice and Data Converged Charging Node (CCN). The full integration of the two platforms will marry the extensive billing and account settlement functionality offered by the ITS converged billing platform with the comprehensive network call control and metering functionality supported by the Tango platform.
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Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Append, an innovative text messaging solution which enables mobile subscribers to send and receive their text messages for free – courtesy of third party sponsorship. This solution appeals to younger subscribers with limited budgets but lots of friends to keep in touch with, and of course to advertisers who are eager to reach the elusive Gen Y and youth markets.
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