Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operational Support System (OSS) software, has been selected by leading industry analyst Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, as one of the finalists for the “2006 Stratecast Billing Mediation Responsive To Customer Needs Award”. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation, the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced on February 14 the financial results for the fourth quarter and for 2006. These results underline Comptel’s continuing success, growth and leadership in its chosen area of business. [Read more…]

New independent research, commissioned by Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operations Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has revealed that mobile operators are struggling to meet growing demand by consumers for more control over their services. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operations Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has extended its IP Address Management solution to manage numbers and identifiers associated with services offered by fixed, mobile and cable operators. By providing a central source for the management of identifiers, the new Comptel Number and Identifier Management solution reduces the time and resources needed to perform key business processes, such as the provisioning of services to customers. It also reduces the risk of errors such as assigning a phone number that is already allocated. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that Telenor of Norway is extending its use of Comptel’s network inventory solution to consolidate information about their logical and physical networks. By combining this information, Telenor shall realise savings in through rationalisation of IT systems and improved processes supported by better data-accuracy. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that Macau’s CTM has selected Comptel to supply provisioning and mediation solutions to support 3G services. CTM, a joint venture of Cable & Wireless, Portugal Telecom and CITIC Pacific, has chosen the Comptel Provisioning Solution to support its 3G service. At the same time, CTM is extending its 2G deployment of the Comptel Event Mediation solution to handle next generation mobile services. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has added its network inventory and its identifier management products to its proven suite of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) compliant solutions. These new additions complete Comptel’s IMS lifecycle management capability, which already included mediation, charging, provisioning and activation. Comptel is also already involved in deploying IMS projects with fixed and mobile operators in Europe, Africa and Asia. [Read more…]

IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) is touted as the means for delivering a variety of communications services to telecom operators’ customers regardless of their network. It is seen as a major driver behind the convergence of wireline and wireless networks, providing a technology-agnostic mechanism for voice and multimedia based services.

The telecoms industry is not, however, ready to do away with existing network investments and build an integrated, IMS-driven network from scratch. Rather operators are aiming for a smooth transition that will exploit existing legacy technologies before moving to IMS over Next Generation Networks and 3G networks. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that it is extending its global operational presence to South Africa in order to meet the growing demand for its software in the region. The Comptel representation based in Cape Town, South Africa, will be headed by Mr. Erwin Blomeyer. This new representation extends Comptel’s global presence to a total of 18 countries, serving over 250 customers in over 80 countries worldwide. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that its provisioning and mediation solutions feature in a fully functional live Triple-Play environment at the Triple-Play Alliance’s labs near Munich, Germany. As one of the founding members of the Triple-Play Alliance, Comptel is the only OSS vendor involved in the Triple-Play Lab, an international centre of competence that has been set up to develop and demonstrate integrated voice, data and video applications. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that Moscow Telecommunications Corporation (COMCOR) has selected Comptel’s network inventory solution. COMCOR, one of the largest competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in Russia, will be using Comptel Incatel NIMS initially to handle outside plant, inside plant and logical resources in its network. In a later phase, COMCOR will deploy Comptel’s inventory as part of the Comptel Fulfilment solution, to automate provisioning of its network and services. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that MoviStar Puerto Rico, a mobile operator in which Telefónica Móviles has an equity participation, has selected Comptel EventLink(r) mediation solution for its CDMA network. Comptel EventLink(r) will collect and process the usage information required by MoviStar to bill for its voice, SMS, and advanced data services. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), an OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that it has been selected by Telecom Namibia to provide provisioning and mediation solutions for their CDMA voice and data services. The Comptel InstantLink provisioning solution will enable Telecom Namibia to activate new customers and services fast and efficiently. The Comptel EventLink mediation solution will ensure that usage information is collected effectively, so that Telecom Namibia can bill their customers in a timely way.

Oiva Angula, Acting Head of Corporate Communications and Public Relations at Telecom Namibia, said, “Enabling us to rapidly activate services for customers without any delays, and collecting information to reliably charge for these services, are obviously fundamental requirements for the success of Telecom Namibia. It was, therefore, vital that we chose the right solutions for provisioning and mediation. We selected Comptel InstantLink and Comptel EventLink because we knew that Comptel solutions interoperate smoothly with the CDMA networks of our chosen supplier, Huawei”.

As Namibia’s incumbent operator, Telecom Namibia needed provisioning and mediation solutions that would be able to work with their leading edge CDMA network, which is currently being deployed by equipment vendor Huawei. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation, a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that Gibraltar’s Gibtelecom, an affiliate of Verizon, has now deployed Comptel’s mediation solution, and signed a further agreement to use Comptel’s reporting and provisioning solution. Gibtelecom will be using Comptel’s convergent solutions for its fixed, mobile and Internet services.

Mr. George Gaskin, Gibtelecom’s IT Manager says: “Comptel was selected following a competitive tender for both mediation and provisioning. Obviously, by the time we came to choose a solution for reporting and provisioning, we had already worked with Comptel, so we felt confident that Comptel’s solutions would meet our needs. These solutions will enable us to provide even better services to our customers, while helping combat fraud.”

Gibtelecom chose Comptel EventLink® because it needed a convergent mediation solution that would be able to handle, collect and process usage information across all networks and services, allowing a greater flexibility in billing for these services. Comptel’s mediation solution offered an off-the-shelf integration with Gibtelecom’s billing systems. The solution is now deployed and live, managing Gibtelecom’s services, including GSM, GPRS and MMS. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation, a convergent mediation, charging and provisioning software vendor, and Sudanese Telecom Company LTD (Sudatel), the Sudanese incumbent operator, announced today that they have signed an agreement for the delivery of Comptel EventLink® mediation solution and Comptel InstantLink® provisioning solution for Sudatel’s new CDMA network.

Mr. Osman Muktar, IT Manager for Sudatel says: “Comptel has proven to be a highly professional company and we have enjoyed working with them. We have a very aggressive roll-out schedule for our new network in which we will need Comptel’s expertise and assistance to be successful. Our mediation and provisioning layer will now be truly standardised, convergent and open – thanks to Comptel platform.”

Sudatel is currently deploying a new CDMA technology in Sudan in order to offer new services to their customers. Sudatel needed a solution to provision this new network to enable customers to enjoy those new services. Sudatel also needed to be able to collect and process usage information in order to charge customers for services used. Having previously deployed Comptel’s convergent mediation solutions for PSTN services, Sudatel decided to extend the agreement with Comptel to use not only mediation but also for provisioning for all their networks including CDMA. [Read more…]

Atos Origin, an international IT service provider and Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory announced today that they had been selected by Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s leading telecoms operator to automate DSL services across Morocco. Maroc Telecom provides fixed, broadband internet and mobile services across all regions in Morocco.

The Comptel® Fulfilment solution will be integrated into Maroc Telecom’s OSS by Atos Origin to automate the activation of DSL services to Maroc Telecom’s customers. This will meet the rapid growth in demand for broadband in Morocco. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation, an OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today the launch of the strengthened Comptel® Fulfilment – a suite of pre-integrated inventory and provisioning modules to cover end-to-end service fulfilment functionality from order capture to activation and reconciliation. The Comptel Fulfilment solution will help broadband and cable service providers meet the challenges of the growing demand and increasing competition for the delivery of services such as triple-play (voice, data, and video), by improving the cost, speed and quality of provisioning, to the obvious benefit of their customers. [Read more…]

Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, and Telenor Pakistan, announced today that they have reached a milestone in their deployment of the Comptel Incatel NIMS network inventory solution. The solution is now fully synchronized with the network, providing Telenor Pakistan with an up-to-date view of their network, as it is being deployed. [Read more…]