Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is reporting that more than 140 communications service providers worldwide have selected or extended their contracts with them in the last fiscal year, June 2008 through May 2009.

Several of the latest contracts and contact extensions include:
— Companhia de Telecommunicacoes do Brasil Central (CTBC Telecom) extended licenses for Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite to support its wireline and wireless services for both pre- and post-paid customers.

— SFR Réunion selected a comprehensive suite of Oracle products including Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications, Oracle Database and Oracle SOA Suite.

— Tikona Digital Networks selected Oracle Communications Service Delivery to introduce new, converged services.

Other communications service providers that selected or extended their use of Oracle Applications and infrastructure software included:
Cellular South (United States)
Cinergy MetroNet, Inc. (United States)
Cisco Systems (United States)
Colombia Movil (Colombia)
Expresso Telecom Group Limited (United Arab Emirates)
Grupo Televisa (Mexico)
Hughes Telematics (United States)
KDDI (Japan)
KPN (The Netherlands)
Lexis Nexis (United States)
MTS Allstream (Canada)
Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (Japan)
Soluciones Inegrales (Costa Rica)
Sun Direct (India)
Telefonica O2 (Czech Republic)
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia)
Telenet (Belg