As the recession bites, how can you use your segmentation tools and strategies to establish what your customers want today and use your marketing to deliver valuable propositions that address their needs? [Read more…]

Vodafone Ghana – formerly Telecom Ghana – recently announced the decision to install and operate the revolutionary lightweight fraud management platform FMSlite™ from XINTEC SA, the fast-emerging global provider of fraud, revenue assurance, and roaming solutions. [Read more…]

VOSS, nominated a Cool Vendor in Unified Communications (UC) by Gartner, and a leader in UC service delivery software, today announced that its Middle East customer, UAE’s integrated telecom service provider ‘du’, has won the prestigious 2009 Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award, for the implementation of a state of the art UC service delivery platform (UC SDP). The award was received by Samer Geissah, Vice President, Core Network, on behalf of du. [Read more…]

Polystar OSIX, a supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, has become self-certified as a Global Roaming Quality (GRQ) Monitoring Provider under an initiative developed by GSMA, the global trade association for the mobile communications industry. [Read more…]

Transverse, a leader in providing high-quality, low-cost, carrier-grade business support systems (BSS), has introduced blee(p) On Demand, the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery option of their Business Logic Execution Environment Platform or blee(p). blee(p) is the industry’s first commercially supported carrier-grade open source BSS solution for communication service providers. [Read more…]

Mycom, a leading global provider of best-in-class OSS Service Assurance software solutions and innovative ICT professional services to the telecoms industry, recently congratulated leading UK operator, O2, on their No.1 ranking in the recent J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey of UK Mobile and Fixed Broadband. [Read more…]

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, announced the successful completion of the second MediationZone User Group Meeting held in Stockholm on May 26-27. [Read more…]

A study run by online business networking service www.MeettheBoss.com shows that telecom executives are spending an extra 10 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. MeettheBoss surveyed 15,000 of its 200,000 executive members to understand more about what effect Web 2.0 has had on the business world. [Read more…]

Irish interconnect vendor, i-conX Solutions, has announced that GSM operator Tele2 Russia is the latest telco to implement its wholesale billing solution. [Read more…]

CWC is delighted to announce the dates of Iraq Telecoms 2009; taking place on 10-11 November at the Hilton London Metropole hotel, and honoured to have the support of the Iraqi Ministry of Communications through a very senior delegation. [Read more…]

By The current economic downturn and fluctuating energy and food costs is hurting everyone. But can the Telecoms sector start the fight back?

With the world in recession regions such as the Middle East and North Africa are stepping up to the challenge to start the fight back. With millions being invested in infrastructure to drive foreign business to the region and with an ever developing working population, the consumer demand is tripling, a momentum that cannot be seen to slow down. [Read more…]

i-conX, the world’s fastest growing interconnect solutions vendor, has announced that Belgian operator BASE is the latest customer to complete the implementation of the i-conX
a-s-p interconnect billing service. [Read more…]

Bharti Telesoft, the leading provider of integrated VAS solutions for mobile operators in emerging markets, has announced the launch of its new name, ‘Comviva’, and its new company name—Comviva Technologies Limited—accompanied by a company-wide re-branding initiative to present a unified approach to the market. [Read more…]

ConceptWave Software Inc., a leading provider of product catalog management and order automation solutions, will address product catalog management’s critical role in transforming the value chain in a session titled “Grow, Achieve Scale and Efficiency Within the Services Oriented Ecosystem” at B/OSS World 2009. [Read more…]

Connectiva Systems Inc., a leading provider of revenue and risk management solutions for the telecommunications industry, will participate in a TeleManagement Forum (TMF) catalyst project at the upcoming Management World conference in May. [Read more…]

Aricent, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, will be participating in a special session panel at the 2009 Billing & OSS World Conference and Expo in Las Vegas running from April 14-16. Tom Lybarger, senior director of Global Service Delivery, will represent Aricent in the Special Session IMS Forum, “B/OSS and Charging in IMS and NGN Networks.” [Read more…]

ConceptWave®, a leading provider of product catalog management and order automation solutions, has been named one of Stratecast’s Global OSS/BSS 10 companies to watch in 2009 for its success in complex product catalog and order orchestration projects in the communications industry. [Read more…]

The WiMAX Forum® today announced the launch of its Interoperability Testing (IOT) Certification program, which will leverage Clearwire Corporation’s commercial WiMAX network experience to further ensure interoperability in the 2.5GHz spectrum band. Compared to other mobile IOT programs, this WiMAX Forum IOT Certification program is unprecedented because of its ability to accelerate certification of all vendors’ products and provide more certainty to operators around the globe that WiMAX™ products will efficiently interoperate in a commercial network environment. [Read more…]

Telarix, Inc., the leading provider of business information exchange and interconnect OSS/BSS solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, has recently announced that Mexico’s largest cable operator has deployed Telarix’s portfolio of interconnect business optimization solutions. The service provider will leverage Telarix’s iXTools® to manage their growing portfolio of services, including digital voice. [Read more…]

After detailed research within the billing and IT community, the agenda for IIR’s forthcoming BSS Summit has been finalised and is available to download today. Be the first to see the exciting line up of speakers, as well as the informative array of learning opportunities that await you in Amsterdam this year. [Read more…]