Frost & Sullivan, the world leader in helping companies achieve growth, has appointed Karl M. Whitelock as Senior Consulting Analyst in the Stratecast OSS/BSS competitive strategies practice. Whitelock brings more than 20 years of communications industry experience focused on OSS/BSS from an industry analyst, business strategy, competitive marketing, operations management and software development perspective. (more…)

ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ: ACEC), a global provider of value added services for telecom operators and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, has appointed Jim Greenwell as president. Mr. Greenwell has over 18 years of management experience, including sales, marketing, business development, and operations for telecommunications companies. Mr. Greenwell will report to George T. Jimenez, who remains as CEO and Chairman of the Board. (more…)

Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, is opening an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The new office is going to be the company’s regional headquarters for the Middle East and Africa region and will be based in Dubai Internet City (DIC). (more…)

A new research report from the wireless analyst firm Berg Insight forecasts that 60 percent of WCDMA handset shipped worldwide will have integrated GPS/Galileo receivers by 2010. Satellite positioning technology enables delivery of location based services such as personal navigation on mobile phones. Another significant benefit is the ability to position mobile emergency calls with high accuracy. (more…)

George Glass, Chief Architect at BT and Tony Sceales, CEO at Celona Technologies will discuss BT’s SOA implementation case study at this year’s TeleManagement World Americas in Dallas. The case study, which is based on one of the largest scale SOA implementations in the world talks about how BT has been able to realise new revenues early whilst delivering reductions in costs through system and process rationalisation. (more…)

Syndesis, the worldwide leader in OSS solutions powering the new communications subscriber experience, will unveil a new version of its award-winning OSS platform at the TeleManagement World Americas conference in Dallas next week. As part of this new release, the company will introduce Syndesis® Adaptive Resource Managerâ„¢ (ARM), the industry’s only “live” inventory management solution, which offers communications service providers (CSPs) rapid time-to-market for new services with a low-risk alternative to lengthy and costly traditional inventory projects. (more…)

HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) has been named the overall market leader in telecom service management by OSS Observer in a recent in-depth report. OSS Observer is a leading telecom analyst firm and is based in Illinois. (more…)

Openet Telecom, the world leader in advanced mediation, real-time charging and network-edge rating, has announced that Joe Hogan, CTO of Openet, will address how high-speed, flexible correlation addresses challenges with Lawful Intercept monitoring, surveillance, and analysis at ISS World in Washington DC on December 4th. (more…)

Streaming21, the world’s leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, together with its set-top box partner, Coship will showcase IPTV and mobile TV solutions at ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong, December 4~8. The demonstration will highlight Streaming21’s current successes in providing these services to multiple incumbent operators in Asia. Visitors will experience richly interactive and personalized demos of converged TV services for live broadcast, video-on-demand, PVR, live mobile television, mobile Vlog, mobile security, and more, based on industry-standard H.264 and 3GPP specifications. (more…)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2007. (more…)

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has added its network inventory and its identifier management products to its proven suite of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) compliant solutions. These new additions complete Comptel’s IMS lifecycle management capability, which already included mediation, charging, provisioning and activation. Comptel is also already involved in deploying IMS projects with fixed and mobile operators in Europe, Africa and Asia. (more…)

RateIntegration, the industry’s leading Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) company for pre and post-paid services in voice, data and content, has announced that the company executed strong growth and sales in the third quarter of 2006 and is on track to make 2006 the best year in company’s history. (more…)

TTI Team Telecom International LTD. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (“TTI Telecom”), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, has announced that Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA (WIND), Italy’s first alternative fixed operator and one of the leaders of integrated fixed-mobile-Internet communications services, has decided to deploy TTI Telecom’s ServiceImpact. ServiceImpact will enable WIND to take a more customer-centric and proactive approach to Service Assurance. (more…)

According to a report published in the 25 November 2006 Sunday Telegraph, Oracle Corporation is in early talks with Intec Billing (formerly Intec Telecom Systems). (more…)

Melita Cable, Malta’s primary Internet Service Provider and leader in the field of home entertainment and communications, has selected MaxBill for the rollout of IP services and the replacement of Melita Cable’s legacy system with MaxBill’s Triple Play suite. Maxbill is a market leader in providing comprehensive, financial customer management and billing solutions. (more…)