Take advantage of the 7th annual Asia Pacific Billing & Revenue Assurance 2007 co-located with Telecom Fraud Summit 2007 (25-26 April 2007, Hilton Singapore). [Read more…]

MACH, a leading global clearing and settlement partner for mobile based transactions, has has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire CB Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cibernet; a leading mobile roaming, clearing and business solutions provider. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the first half of 2007. Luxembourg-based MACH is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. [Read more…]

WorldCell, a leading provider of voice and data wireless managed services to the US Military, and Accuris Networks, an innovator in fixed-mobile convergence and inter-technology roaming solutions, have developed a next generation International Roaming HUB service based on the principles of Open Connectivity — a GSMA initiative focused on reducing cost and increasing efficiency of international GSM roaming. [Read more…]

Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ:SUNW) has announced full support for Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), the next generation Java(TM) platform for mobile phones, is available immediately across its mobile product line and the NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE). [Read more…]

Gamma Telecom and International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international wholesale unit of Deutsche Telekom, have signed an international voice outsourcing deal, which sees Gamma Telecom outsource its international voice traffic to ICSS. [Read more…]

Interactive Enterprise Limited (IE) has launched a new service provisioning and management solution supporting online payments. As part of its industry leading provisioning and management solution, Conexon, IE now enables service providers activate and manage both pre-paid and post-paid services for broadband data, voice wireless and video services. [Read more…]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has completed its acquisition of Vallent Corporation, a privately held software company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vallent on November 28, 2006. Vallent’s operations will be integrated into the IBM Software Group’s Tivoli Software unit. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Ltd, a leading vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, is going to deploy revenue assurance and fraud management systems for CellC, a leading mobile operator in South Africa. [Read more…]

VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), a leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, has announced that Iraqi based Al Mazaya Telecommunications chose VeriSign PrePayIN to support its prepay service in Iraq. The new service, which is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2007, is the first installation of PrePayIN in the Middle East. [Read more…]

Telecom Advisors International S.A. has recently announced the availability of the XCarrier SaaS service (software as a service) for international wholesale, carrier margin management and least cost routing processes as outtasked and managed service for the Latin America and Caribbean market. [Read more…]

NeoAccel, an emerging leader in secure network access solutions, has named Frank Guerrero as vice president of marketing. Guerrero will drive NeoAccel’s inbound and outbound marketing programs as the company builds market share based on its highly successful SSL VPN-Plusâ„¢ and NAM-Plusâ„¢ products. [Read more…]

CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB) has completed a licensing agreement with the International Institute of Telecommunications’ research arm (IIT-R) to integrate Tapestry into its cutting edge, wireless and wireline networking environment as it establishes a broader business and operations support systems infrastructure to support next generation IMS/3G/4G service innovation, testing, and research & development. Terms of the agreement include annual product license fees. [Read more…]

Digital Fairway Corporation (www.digitalfairway.com), a leader in communications management software and automated end-to-end service delivery solutions, has launched the Provergent Communication Services Management Suite, a complete set of applications that helps enterprises better manage their communications infrastructure. [Read more…]

AppLabs Technologies, the world’s largest independent software testing company, has recently named Gary Davies to head up business development in Europe. Davies brings more than 15 years of business development and management experience to AppLabs’ expanding European operations and this appointment represents AppLabs’ continued commitment to growth in Europe. Davies will initially be based in London, UK. [Read more…]

Satyam (NYSE:SAY) , a leading global consulting and IT services company, has announced the audited results of the company for the quarter ended December 31, 2006 (Q3 2007). Revenue from software services stood at Rs. 1661.12 crore, up 31.3 % on a YoY basis and 3.70% sequentially. The revenue for the current year is expected to be in the range of Rs. 6,434 crore and Rs. 6,442 crore. The corresponding annual growth rate is expected to be 34.3% – 34.4%. [Read more…]

CHIL has announced that Orange Business Services in the UK is the first organisation to successfully deploy CHIL’s new, ground-breaking Tariff Review Service Solution, enabling them to accurately analyse each of its customer’s usage patterns on-line and recommend the most suitable Orange Business Services tariff plan for them. It is expected to lead to much higher customer satisfaction, lower call centre costs and a significant reduction in customer churn. [Read more…]

As part of a large-scale move to new offices in the City of London, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has chosen the latest communication recording technology from Activa Solutions. The system is a fully integrated Veritel Pro VOIP and digital combined voice recording platform, capturing calls and call data from 960 Cisco IP extensions over 4 floors, plus 270 IPC trading turret inputs on the global trading floor. [Read more…]

Dexterra, Inc., the fastest-growing mobile business platform and applications company worldwide, has been selected by the NRG Group – a global leader in document management solutions – through its Nashuatec, Rex-Rotary, and Gestetner sales brands, to supply the Dexterra Concertä mobile business platform and its TransApp(tm) Field Service application to manage up to 2,500 field engineers across Europe. [Read more…]

Kirusa, a leading developer of value added mobile services, has acquired all of the intellectual property assets of US-based HeyAnita Inc., including all software, patent applications, and trademarks. The purchased software, which includes the Rapid Messaging Sevice (RMS) application, HeyAnita’s variant of Voice SMS, further consolidates Kirusa’s leadership in Voice SMS. [Read more…]