Convergent billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, unveiled its Total Convergence Architecture (TCA), a new flexible model for telecoms operators based on (more…)

Strategic Move Improves Customer Interaction

ECtel Ltd. announced today that it expanded its business operations in the UK and Singapore, upgrading its customer interaction abilities and local support for its growing customer base in Europe and Asia Pacific. (more…)

Oracle leads push for billing and revenue management benchmark standards

Oracleâ Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.3.1 had a recently completed extensive performance and scalability benchmark exercise by Oracle to demonstrate its ability to support 100 million subscribers. Scalability of this magnitude is vital to meeting the needs of tier-one communications service providers and those looking to consolidate multiple billing applications into a convergent platform. (more…)

NetCracker expected to enhance OSS leadership in 2009

NetCracker Technology received the 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year award. The award comes with the firm’s 15 year anniversary where there has been a decade and a half of innovation and commitment to the communications industry. (more…)

Firm to capitalize on market opportunities and enhance user experience

UCell Uzbekistan will begin offering new products and services to derive more revenues from voice calls and also improve the experience of mobile phone users with expanded prepaid billing features and ringback tones. (more…)

Subsidiaries launched and executive appointments in Germany and France made

NetMotion Wireless, announced that the company expanded into Europe with new subsidiaries in Germany and France. In addition, the company appointed Mikael Taillepied and Ufuk Ergun to head new regional offices for the company. The company has been active in the United Kingdom for several years. Stef Coetzee will continue to head United Kingdom and Northern European operations. (more…)

OPT’s Comptel Dynamic OSS deployment by Bull extended at the heart of the telco’s information systems

Bull will be working in close collaboration with OPT to extend the existing deployment of the Comptel solutions for mediation and provisioning to enable New-Caledonia’s OPT-NC (Office des Postes et Télécommunications de Nouvelle-Calédonie) to launch innovative messaging and multiple play services. Since 2004, Comptel Convergent Mediation Solution™ has been in operation at OPT to (more…)

IP Landscape evolves with first Interactive Thought-Leadership Platform

Tata Communications announced the launch of One IP World, the industry’s first thought leadership platform, which will function as an interactive forum fostering dialogue pertaining to IP and Voice over IP (VoIP). Publically launched at the 2009 Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) Annual Conference, in Honolulu, Hawaii, One IP World is an open resource for telecommunications professionals allowing the exchange of business and technical information on challenges associated with IP converged communications. (more…)

Sicap, mobile business enabler, and Utel, French service provider giant, released details of their latest collaboration to enhance mobile business opportunities by employing marketing campaigns through an open standards messaging hub, connected to multiple operator networks. (more…)

Neotel announced today Tata Communications acquired the 30% stake previously held by Eskom and Transnet. This has resulted in Tata Communications in association with Tata Africa Holdings becoming a controlling shareholder in Neotel. (more…)

Leading Indonesian operator broadens the use of Clarity’s Unified OSS to include voice and data services for fixed wireless business

Clarity announced today that the use of its OSS platform will be expanded to handle all voice, data and IP services offered on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia’s (Telkom) CDMA network. PT Telkom currently boasts ten million subscribers on their CDMA network and an annual growth of around 30 percent. PT Telkom CDMA network employs technology provided by Huawei, ZTE, Motorola, Samsung, Cisco systems, and Juniper. (more…)

Today, Intec announced a contract with the largest cable operator in Mexico for Intec’s market-leading mediation solution. The Mexican operator will use Intec Mediation to modernize its network operations for supporting its expanding range of services including digital telephony, Pay per View, and Video on Demand. Also covered under the terms of the agreement is one of the operator’s affiliate companies, a leading fiber network provider in Mexico. (more…)

Global presence extended to enable rapid service delivery in Asia Pacific region

Today, ConceptWave Software Inc., a leading provider of catalog management and order automation solutions, unveiled the company’s enhanced global partner program at Management World Asia 2009. The broadened scope of ConceptWave’s partner initiative positions ConceptWave Order CareT suite of solutions as a mainstream offering in the service fulfillment space. (more…)

Reported in leading analyst’s BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors (2008)

Comarch announced today that it had been rated as “strong” in Gartner’s “Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008” report and as “Stable” in the “OSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008” report. (more…)

Policy that is solution based, charging enables service providers to regulate bandwidth consumption

Openet announced today the launch of its Fair Usage solution. Being based upon Openet’s FusionWorks™ Policy Manager and Convergent Charging products, service providers are enabled, by the Fair Usage solution, to ensure profitability from their data services by enforcing limits on subscriber usage volume, while allowing subscribers to purchase additional volume when limits are reached. (more…)

Nigerian Sovereign Trust Insurance (STI) successfully launched ESKADENIA Software’s comprehensive package of General Insurance, Financial, Human Resources, Payroll, Workflow, Document Management and Management Information software systems. (more…)

MetraTech Corp., as rated by Gartner, was awarded a “strong” rating. The rating appeared in Gartner’s, which is the leading technology research and advisory company, December 2008 issue under its “Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008.” (more…)

Amdocs announced today that it is had been rated “Very Strong” in overall performance, market understanding, and offering strategy in operations support systems (OSS). The Gartner Dataquest report was published in November 2008, titled: “Dataquest Insight: OSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008”, that offers guidance to providers on strategic OSS vendor sourcing. (more…)