XINTEC announces the release of FMSlite, which is a new generation lightweight, efficient and powerful Fraud Management System (FMS) designed to combat roaming and domestic telecom fraud. (more…)
Intec announced today that Telstra commended Intec for its contribution to the on time and high quality delivery of the first phases of Telstra’s convergent mediation program. Intec’s Mediation solution is enabling Telstra to (more…)
Network of the World (NOW) Mobile Network concluded a licensing and deployment agreement with ESKADENIA Software for its Billing and Customer Relationship Management system (ESKADENIA® BCRM) for the telco’s Southern Sudan operations. During Q4 of 2008, NOW will go live with (more…)
Comarch, the worldwide supplier of innovative OSS, BSS and VAS solutions, has organized workshops in Germany from the 23rd - 26th of September 2008 in order to present their newest solutions and products as well as their plans for the future. (more…)
PAETEC Holding Corp. announced today it will migrate its billing platforms to the latest version of Leap RevChain from FTS. The existing long-term relationship (more…)
OSS News Review has released our OSS Visibility Index ratings for the month of July 2008. The OSS Visibility Index is a list of the most visible companies and products and services in the telecom OSS/BSS industry.
The OSS Visibility Index is published on a monthly basis and comes in two parts. The first part of the OSS Visibility Index consists of the rankings of the companies that were most visible online during the reporting period. The second part of the OSS Visibility Index consists of the rankings of the OSS products and services that were most popular during the reporting period. This third installment of the OSS Visibility Index includes data compiled during July, 2008. (more…)
Skyline Communications is bringing an exclusive preview of its next generation DataMiner solutions to IBC 2008, in booth 1.C14. A brand new user interface, designated DataMiner Cube, features an innovative (more…)
Skyline Communications announced a record number of DataMiner deployments by industry leading operators. Included in the list of deployments have been ASBU, Broadcast Australia, Czech Television, ENEX, Gateway Communications, M6, MTV, Overon, Roshan, RTL-TVI, (more…)
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A technology and IP backhaul solution is included in deployment
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) and Alcatel-Lucent announced an agreement today valued at more than USD $30 million for equipment, services and software to upgrade Shenandoah Personal Communications Company’s network in Virginia, West Virginia, (more…)
“If you use a discount calling card from the US or Europe to phone Ecuador, Nigeria or any one of dozens of developing countries, your voice is now more likely streaming over the Internet and terminating via an illegal operator rather than travelling over conventional channels,” The Berkman Center, Harvard Law School.
What is the problem? (more…)
BTC Mobile implemented Neural Technologies’ (NT) Minotaur™ solution to enable it to tackle fraud on its network.
BTC Mobile has over a million mobile subscribers. A fraud review carried out by the operator in 2006 highlighted several areas of concern, the most pressing of which was Bypass Fraud. Bypass Fraud is the illegal (more…)
Martin Group announced today that it signed a letter of intent to acquire Enhanced Services Software, which enables carriers to offer its customers self care, advanced messaging, new revenue applications, and capabilities with flow-through provisioning from their existing network infrastructure. The software, which is being acquired (more…)
Foreign mobile users attending events have seamless roaming available
Tata Communications announced that they are bringing prepaid roaming to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with its Intelligent CAMEL eXchange (ICX), a service that significantly reduces the time and (more…)
Sigma Systems announced that it will demonstrate its Subscriber Information System (SIS) interface as part of the Innovation Showcase at the upcoming CableLabs Summer Conference 2008. Their product’s demo will identify how existing subscriber data can be (more…)
World-class service delivery architecture to be enhanced with Transactive
Highdeal announced today that Evolve IP selected Highdeal Transactive® for their best-in-class business infrastructure. Transactive, Being combined with leading solutions from SAP, IBM, and Broadsoft, (more…)
L-3 Communications announced today it was selected as a prime contractor for a U.S. Air Force weapons systems support contract. The contract carries a maximum value of USD $6.9 billion.
The company was one of 12 prime contractors selected for contracts for the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) program known as the Future, Flexible Acquisition and Sustainment Tool (F(2)AST). L-3 will compete for task orders and delivery orders under the F(2)AST program. (more…)
Solutions and services will support China Mobile’s Olympics-related business
Today, AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with China Mobile to provide system monitoring, management platform and related services to China Mobile’s headquarters during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (more…)
The firm’s Mobility XE product provides public safety, ambulance, and firefighters reliable and secure mobile connections
NetMotion Wireless announced today that Johnson County, Kan. has deployed their Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution to support its police officers, ambulance, and firefighter professionals. Their software, Mobility XE, boosts mobile productivity by (more…)
The firm’s Unified OSS solution to support next generation services
Clarity announced today that it won a third contract with Indonesia’s Tier 1 incumbent telecoms service provider, PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom). Currently, Clarity provides PT Telkom with a single strategic OSS platform (more…)
Amdocs announced today that KPN, the largest service provider in the Netherlands, deployed Amdocs Operations Support Systems (OSS) for the fulfillment of its broadband services.
KPN is a longstanding Amdocs OSS customer and has deployed several (more…)
Media services vendor Medialink, known to most PR professionals for its work in broadcast and video PR, has been acquired by The NewsMarket.
AFP, Frankfurt The biggest German telecommunications operator, Deutsche Telekom, is looking to swap its loss- making T-Mobile unit in Britain for an asset in another country, a press report said yesterday.
Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay.
Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. announced on Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Sherburne Tele Systems, Inc., headquartered in Big Lake, Minn., for the purchase price of approximately $82 million subject to certain balance sheet and tax adjustments.
Sprint Nextel Inc. today said it will put the new BlackBerry Tour smartphone on sale online on July 12 for $200 -- the same price announced earlier for the device.
Mumbai and Paris, -- Alcatel-Lucent Managed Services, the first of its kind managed network services joint venture company of Alcatel-Lucent and Reliance Communications , one of India's largest integrated telecommunications service provider, today completes one year.
A giant U.S. "vulture" fund is in the hunt for Nortel Networks Corp. MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a private-equity investor in distressed companies, says it believes Nortel can still survive as a free-standing company and does not have to be auctioned off in pieces.
Telefonica SA is eying a bid for Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK, which analysts value between EUR3 billion and EUR4 billion after several years of underpeformance, according to a Financial Times report.
The implementation is a key element of Kyrgyztelecom's plans to build a next-generation Metro Ethernet fiber-to-the-home aggregation network, initially in the capital of Bishkek and then across other cities.
Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch.
Canada's continuing fire sale of local TV stations got rained on this week as cable operator Shaw Communications pulled plans to buy three over-the-air outlets from CTVglobemedia for $1 each.
The never ending saga of Dish Network Corp. A versus TiVO Inc. ends up hurting shareholders more while the two companies duke it out in court over technology patents.A Today TIVO shares are the big loser down 14% while DISH shares are off 2%, but the battle is far from over.
The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday.
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Millicom International Cellular has announced that its previously announced strategic review of its Asian assets is progressing according to plan.
