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…)
Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average is one of the myriad goals to be unveiled in the National Broadband Plan by the the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday a Some details of the plan have trickled out in the last few weeks including how to find spectrum to meet an anticipated explosion of handset devices ...
From the Announcement Today, the Federal Communications Commission launched new digital tools - the Consumer Broadband Test and the Broadband Dead Zone Report - that allow consumers to test their broadband service and report areas where broadband is not available.
Cisco Systems may soon join competitors IBM, SGI, and Sun in the lucrative market of containerized data centers, according to a report by Information Week .
As if the financial news for Sprint couldn't possible get worse, according to Kansas City Journal , Sprint Nextel Corp.
After grabbing headlines with a sign-on bonus of more than $100 million, Motorola Inc.
Just when Corning Inc. had developed a working relationship with freshman Rep. Eric Massa, the Corning Democrat exited the Washington stage in the middle of his term.
The Canadian Press The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Thursday thanks to a late-day gain in financial and gold stocks that sent the S&P/TSX composite index up 18.64 points to 11,979.7. The TSX financial sector gained 0.38% after the CEO of U.S. banking giant Citigroup, Vikram Pandit, said the bank was on a path toward 'sustained ...
An investor gestures in front of an electronic board with stock information at a brokerage in Shanghai.
Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.
The chief executive of Swisscom AG said Fastweb was a victim of fraud, a Swiss paper reported on Saturday, the second time the CEO has come out in defense of his company's subsidiary.
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network.
Verizon Communications Inc. today announced that it will dual list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, effective with the start of trading this morning.
Bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp on Friday posted a 62 percent drop in quarterly revenue, as customers cut spending in the face of uncertainty about its bankruptcy proceedings and the shaky economy.
Singapore Telecommunications may help with the funding for Bharti Airtel's $9bn acquisition of Zain's African assets, a senior SingTel executive said yesterday.
Nokia Corp. on Friday revised its global market share estimate for mobile phones in 2009 to 34 percent, from an earlier 38 percent, and said it expected no growth this year.
