Research and Markets has announced the addition of The Next-Generation Bill: Commercial and Technical Strategies to their offering. The Next-Generation Bill: commercial and technical strategies examines the changing role of the bill in the next-generation world from the perspective of three different groups of telecoms service users: residential subscribers and small businesses; corporate customers; and wholesale customers (including network and content partners). [Read more…]

telSPACE, a leading MVNE, has teamed up with deltathree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDDC), a leading provider of hosted Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions worldwide, to provide a multi-service application for service providers that wish to deploy both VoIP and MVNO cellular services under a unified platform. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has revealed that African telecom operators are estimated to be losing over a quarter of revenues due to revenue leakage, which is double the global average (12.1 per cent).

The ‘Operator Attitudes to Revenue Assurance 2006’ report conducted by Subex Azure and telecoms analysts Analysys, reveals that the estimated loss across the sample of African operators was 26.8 per cent which is the equivalent to $25.7bn. [Read more…]

Xero Mobile’s (Pink Sheets:XRMB) revolutionary ad-subsidized mobile phone service for college students is entering its pilot testing phase, the company recently announced, after completing the design and implementation of its core systems with technology partner XIUS.

Xero features TV-style ads with better ability to measure viewership than direct mail, the accountability of the Web and the intimacy of mobile, and unlike many competitors, has developed its own integrated telecommunications solution to provide a range of services. [Read more…]

Juniper Research has forecast that the annual growth rate for expenditure on new convergent mobile prepaid/postpaid solutions will average 30% per annum to 2011. Expenditure is forecast to grow from $299m in 2006 to just over $1.1bn by 2011 as operators strive for competitive advantage and improved operational efficiency. The largest expenditure over the 2006 to 2011 period is forecast to be in Europe due to the complex legacy charging environments installed in most established operators. [Read more…]

Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (“Vistula”) (OTC Bulletin Board: VSTL) (http://www.vistula.com), a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over IP (“VoIP”) services to major telecommunications carriers and Internet Service Providers, has acquired Goodman Blue Limited (“Goodman Blue”), a UK systems integration and software house.

Goodman Blue provides a software package that allows service providers, of any kind, to deliver real-time, self-service and fully automated, provisioning, rating, billing, service management and reporting of telecom and other services. For Vistula and its customers this software sits on the outside of V-Cube(TM)(1) so that service providers can create hands-off management of their customers’ billable activity. The Goodman Blue solution is called – Order to Cash (“O2C”). [Read more…]

PAETEC Communications, Inc., has announced it has received two Carrier Excellence Awards from ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based telecommunications research consultancy. PAETEC captured both the 2006 Metro Wholesale PRI Product Award and the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) Best-in-Class Service Partner Award. These awards are for the highest average ratings for PAETEC’s PRI product and the highest overall ratings for service provision, respectively. [Read more…]

Visionael Corp., a leading provider of process-oriented inventory, provisioning and activation solutions for IP service delivery, has announced the acquisition of Defero AB, a Swedish operations support system (OSS) solutions provider. The deal strengthens Visionael’s ability to support service providers in the rollout of next-generation services across IP networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. [Read more…]

Belize Telecommunications Limited will soon be launching a range of new and enhanced services to its prepaid customers by means of Lucent’s SurePay real-time rating and charging engine, which has been commercially deployed in networks worldwide with a base of more than 135 million subscribers. SurePay is a scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution designed to support a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce services. [Read more…]

UCN, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UCNN – News), a provider of on-demand contact handling software and business telecommunication services delivered over the UCN national VoIP network, today announced a partnership with MetTel (Metropolitan Telecommunications), a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in New York City. Under the terms of the signed agreement, the two companies will interconnect their respective networks, enabling MetTel to sell UCN’s inContact(TM) application services into its customer base. [Read more…]

Interactive Enterprise Limited (IE) announced today that it has partnered with Wave7 Optics Inc., a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home or -premises (FTTH/FTTP) equipment for residential and business services, to deliver an automated, end-to-end management and provisioning system for all operators of FTTH/FTTP networks.

Under the partnership, the companies will provide FTTP service providers with an integrated solution where IE’s automated provisioning and management system, Conexonâ„¢, will interoperate with Wave7 Optics’ Last Mile Link TM (LML) FTTP platform. This integrated solution will enable service providers to rapidly provision and manage “triple-play” broadband services including high-speed data, voice and video over FTTP networks in conjunction with the service provider’s existing OSS and BSS platforms. [Read more…]

PrismTech, a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, has announced that it is supplying its OpenFusion® e*ORB™ middleware solution to Anritsu Instruments Company, a subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of operational support and measurement solutions for next-generation telecommunications systems.

“We selected OpenFusion middleware for its ease of configuration and overall performance,” said Gregory Soule, director R&D at Anritsu Instruments. “PrismTech’s CORBA® middleware solution is flexible and robust enough to support all of our application requirements.”

OpenFusion e*ORB, PrismTech’s flagship embedded product in its family of CORBA-based middleware solutions, is specifically designed for use in low profile, resource-constrained environments. Available in C and C++, it features an open and configurable architecture, offering high performance and extremely efficient use of system resources. OpenFusion e*ORB is the first ORB to offer an interoperable solution across GPP, DSP and FPGA processor types. [Read more…]

Bharti Telesoft, the leading global supplier of core Value Added Services (VAS) platforms and Business Support Systems for wireless and wireline carriers, has successfully deployed its Missed Call Alert (MCA) platform, a system that captures every call attempt and automatically transmits missed call notifications over SMS to users. MobileCom is Jordan’s second GSM operator and a pioneer of launching innovative VAS for its 1.2 million strong subscriber base. The MCA solution, branded CLI+ (Caller Location Identification) by MobileCom Jordan, was successfully implemented within a tight time-frame, meeting all budget and functionality objectives, allowing MobileCom to launch the service commercially on Tuesday 19th September. [Read more…]

Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, will be exhibiting and speaking at the 9th Annual Risk Management and Internal Audit in Telecoms 2006 conference, which takes place at the Cafe Royal, London, UK between 18 and 19 September 2006.

Karthikeyan Ramnath, Product Manager, Subex Azure, will be presenting a session entitled “Reducing the Day Sales Outstanding (DSO) using the Revenue Operations Center (ROC)” on Tuesday 19 September 2006. Karthikeyan will be looking at the benefits of collaboration between fraud and risk management; how the ROC is defined; aligning departmental strategies with corporate strategy, and how the ROC can enable operators to reduce DSO and more efficiently prioritise cases. [Read more…]

Intelliden Inc., a leading provider of standards-based network automation solutions, has announced an alliance with Atos Origin, an international IT services company. The combination of Intelliden’s industry-leading network automation software and Atos Origin’s world-class systems integration service capabilities will enable customers to better manage their increasingly complex networks while accelerating the time-to-market of new services. The initial focus of the partnership will be on the European communications service provider, focusing on wide area IP networks market where the companies have active projects underway with leading operators across the community.

Forward-looking Tier 1 service providers are rolling out IP networks to converge voice, data, video and other services onto one wide-area network. To achieve success, service providers must adopt network management best practices to drive operational efficiency, availability and security of these complex networks utilizing state of the art IP transport technologies. Intelliden’s R-Series(R) software suite combined with Atos Origin’s reach across the communications service provider sector, and its systems integration and change management expertise, provide customers with a complete solution for automating next-generation networks to accelerate revenues and reduce operating expenses. [Read more…]