Intec announced that it signed a major deal with Moov Côte d’Ivoire. According to the agreement, Intec has supplied and successfully installed the Intec Interconnect billing solution at Moov Côte d’Ivoire with a network of over 1 million subscribers.

The firm’s reputation as an established world-class OSS provider was cited as a key reason for Moov’s decision to select Intec Interconnect as its billing system of choice. “With almost 30 operators using Intec Interconnect in Africa today, Intec is regarded as the market leader in wholesale business management solutions for the continent”, explains Aboubacar Coulibaly, Atlantique Telecom’s Group IT Director. “Another advantage Intec has over other billing suppliers is its existing presence in the network of other Ivorian GSM operators. Many of Moov Côte d’Ivoire’s competitors are already users of Intec Interconnect and have experienced first hand the financial benefits of installing such a powerful and reliable billing system. We want to achieve the same results for our business”, says Francois Kouassi, Moov Côte d’Ivoire’s Operators Business Manager.

The project was completed ahead of schedule by Intec’s Competence Centre in West Africa. Extensive training and skills transfer was also conducted to enable Moov Côte d’Ivoire to leverage the skills of its own technical and business team to become fully self-sufficient in running and using the Intec Interconnect system.

Through the installation of the Intec Interconnect platform, Atlantique Telecom’s goal is to reduce the wholesale costs for national and international interconnect traffic. At present, this is one of Moov Côte d’Ivoire’s largest single business expenditures and, therefore, a critical challenge to overcome as the company expands its operations. Moov Côte d’Ivoire plans to reduce these costs by using Intec Interconnect’s powerful billing capabilities to accurately and automatically control what is paid out and what is invoiced to its partners. Moov Côte d’Ivoire is also looking to expand its international wholesale services, and is increasing its availability to other operations in the group. Intec Interconnect will support this initiative while helping Moov Côte d’Ivoire better manage its regular administrative and operational tasks, enabling the operator to allocate more time to negotiating new and better agreements with its interconnect partners.

“This project is strategic for Intec as it is aligned with our goal to sign group deals with the largest telecommunications providers in the region,” explains Gary Burch, VP EMEA. “We already have group agreements with Orange and Orascom Telecom Holding to name just a couple of major players, and Moov being part of a big operator such as Etilisat reinforces our status as the preferred OSS vendor of choice to some of the biggest and most highly regarded communications companies in the region.”

About Atlantique Telecom

Atlantique Telecom is a major GSM operator in West and Central Africa. Moov is the mobile brand name of Atlantique Telecom, a telecommunications holding company with Banque Atlantique as minority shareholder and Etisalat as majority shareholder. Etisalat is of the biggest telecommunications services providers in the world with presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afganistan, Egypt, Sudan and Nigeria. Etisalat has been the telecommunications services provider in the UAE since 1976.

For more information visit the website www.etisalat.com

About Intec

Intec supplies solutions to over 70 of the world’s top 100 telecoms carriers and is one of the world’s fastest growing major BSS/OSS (business and operations support systems) vendors. Intec’s 400 customers include AT&T, Cable & Wireless, The Carphone Warehouse (UK), China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Verizon. Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been with Intec since its inception, to provide the highest standards of performance, flexibility and robustness to help carriers service their customers effectively and profitably. Intec’s comprehensive and expanding range of products, solutions and services includes:

*** Retail billing and customer management;

*** Multi-service mediation and activation;

*** Inter-carrier billing settlements including US CABS and ITU-based settlement;

*** End-to-end content partner management;

*** Optimized wholesale routing and trading;

*** Real-time pre/post-paid mediation and charging; and

*** Pre-integrated solutions for wholesale, wireless and core IMS charging functions.

Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has over 1,700 staff and 34 offices in 26 countries.

For more information, please visit their website: http://www.intecbilling.com