Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, will present its integrated Telecoms vision and identity on the world stage at next week’s FTTH Council Europe Conference. The Prysmian Group, formed as a result of the merging of industry leaders Prysmian and Draka will be present at the biggest FTTH event in Europe – the Council’s 9th annual conference and exhibition which takes place in Munich on 15th & 16th of February. [Read more…]

Tango Telecom (www.tangotelecom.com), the leading provider of Policy Control, Real-time Charging & Advanced Messaging has today announced the results of its record-breaking Policy Server performance study on the latest generation of Commerical Off the Shelf (COTS) blade servers using Xeon 6 core CPUs. [Read more…]

Market-leading Scandinavian automatic network support system development company Netadmin Systems says proliferation of fibre in Europe is driving high demand for Next Generation OSS/BSS services. [Read more…]

Broadband MEA, the premier event driving sustainable growth of broadband in the Middle East and Africa, is attracting top industry representatives in the region to its first ever Rural Broadband Summit to be held on 25 March 2012. As MEA governments and industry players alike work towards bridging the digital divide to improve rural broadband, the summit will explore the opportunities and innovations required to achieve connectivity in these territories. [Read more…]

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of mediation solutions for the communications industry, has received the prestigious 2011 Stratecast Global CSP Billing Mediation Competitive Strategy Innovation Award. The award is presented by the leading market consultancy, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan. The selection of Digital Route recognizes the company’s achievements in the areas of growth, market leadership, and product innovation. [Read more…]

Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2012

Encompassing:
– Mobile Payments & Mobile Wallets
– NFC Technologies
– Mobile Money Transfer & Mobile Remittance
– Mobile Banking
– Banking the Unbanked & Microfinance Services

Winning Strategies to Profit from Innovative & Sustainable Mobile Payments Services

Conference: 19-20 April 2012
Hong Kong

Corporate Sponsor:

Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2012 will draw together highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile network operators, banks, money transfer providers, mobile transfer networks, mWallets, retailers, public transit providers, ‘interoperability hubs’, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers to share their latest efforts in launching mobile financial services and the key challenges facing them. [Read more…]

i-conX solutions, the world’s fastest growing inter-carrier billing and routing solutions vendor, recently announced that New Zealand ISP Orcon is the latest customer to enter live service with its hosted a-s-p interconnect billing service, acclaimed since 2001 as the most cost-efficient hosted delivery platform available for the inter-carrier business sector, and in use with leading telcos worldwide, including Vodafone, UPC and KPN group affiliates. [Read more…]

Full representation of the stakeholders will be sharing case studies and their vital views on how to develop and deploy innovative and sustainable mobile payments services at Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2012 which will be held from 19 to 20 April 2012 in Hong Kong. [Read more…]

European telecom operators risk being sidelined in the global cloud computing market as aggressive North American and Asian operators spend billions to build international presence. New research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor has found that European operators accounted for only 7% of the US$13.5 billion that operators committed on cloud assets in 2011. North American and Asian operators accounted for 90%, or US$12 billion. [Read more…]

VOSS Solutions, the leader in cloud fulfillment technology, launched a User Deployment Service to automate the set up of users, their associated devices and services, on a unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform. [Read more…]

DigitalRoute recently announced that its MediationZone is in live operation at Vodafone Portugal. MediationZone was selected to replace existing mediation solutions after a careful evaluation including a successful proof-of-concept. The recent deployment is the first part of a five-phase program at Vodafone Portugal to create a unified mediation layer based on MediationZone. The new solution will speed up the introduction of new services. [Read more…]

Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2012 will draw together highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile network operators, banks, money transfer providers, mobile transfer networks, mWallets, retailers, public transit providers, ‘interoperability hubs’, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers to share their latest efforts in launching mobile financial services and the key challenges facing them. [Read more…]

Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems has told OSS News Review that TelNet Worldwide (TelNet) has implemented the Protector fraud management system. TelNet is a next-generation provider of essential business communications products and services based in Troy, Michigan. They licensed Protector in late 2010 to identify and defend against costly communications fraud. The Protector software integrates with well over 200 switches and data formats, including TelNet’s Genband C3 switching platform. [Read more…]

The 40 leading telecoms operating groups out-performed the global economy by 5.0 ppt (percentage points), according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. Based on data taken from the recently published World Telecoms Financial Benchmarks (WTFB) service, the largest operators, as measured by consolidated total revenues, increased revenues for the second quarter of 2011 by 6.8% year-on-year to reachUS$327.6 billion. This compares to 1.8% growth in the broader economy, indicating global resilience to the amount consumers and enterprises spend on telecoms services as well as the effectiveness of operators’ financial and operational discipline. [Read more…]

fonYou, the cloud telephony pioneer, today announced its XtraLine solution for operators is now available as an iPhone or Android app that can be downloaded direct to a smartphone. [Read more…]

Ovum Events are proud to launch Steering for Success: Navigating through the Business Intelligence Maze on 1 December 2011 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Central London. This Ovum event will provide a range of informative and practical sessions to help your organisation to determine the best course of action for its unique needs. [Read more…]

Ovum Events Master Class Extracting Business Value from Social Media is taking place in Central London on 8 November 2011.
This workshop led by Senior Ovum Analysts Richard Edwards and Mike Davis will provide delegates with practical insights into the rapidly evolving world of social media and analytics. Participants will take away useful and actionable knowledge that will inform and stimulate the development of a cohesive social media business and IT strategy. Full workshop materials are provided, either during the course of the day or for download after the event. [Read more…]

Ovum Events are proud to launch IT Governance and Planning on 7th December 2011 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Central London. Ovum believes that creating value through IT-enabled business projects is a chain of activities that involves both business and IT functions. Consequently, IT Governance must run throughout the entire IT value lifecycle with both business and IT elements which helps to align these two perspectives to a common set of objectives. [Read more…]

Ovum Events Enterprise Collaboration Summit, taking place on 30th November at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Central London will focus on how mobile, social and cloud technology can offer organisations a real opportunity to do things differently. This will be highlighted through a series of vendor presentations and case studies. [Read more…]

Ovum Events are proud to introduce Hybrid IaaS: Coming of Age on 24th November 2011 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Central London. This Ovum event is designed to inform senior IT professionals about the opportunities and challenges faced when attempting to figure out which IaaS vendors and offerings to pick and mix, how to integrate them into hybrid IaaS solutions. Lastly, this will equip Senior IT professionals with methods to understand their strengths and how to cope with their current shortcomings. [Read more…]