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ON Telecoms Implements Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has announced that ON Telecoms, a new communications service provider in Greece, has implemented Oracle(R) Communications Billing and Revenue Management to expedite its entry into the triple-play market. Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides ON Telecoms with a flexible, comprehensive billing application. The service provider implemented the solution swiftly, allowing it to deliver services quickly and win customers. With Oracle, ON Telecoms achieved its goal to be the first company in the Athens area to take advantage of market deregulation and build a triple-play business to challenge the incumbent. The provider offers voice, high-speed Internet access and...
Alcatel and Oracle join forces to develop an innovative next-generation convergent billing solution Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced their intent to develop and market a solution for "Convergent Charging and Receivables". This next-generation convergent billing solution will deploy Alcatel’s real-time rating engine in the billing workflow, and provide fixed and mobile operators with a highly efficient architecture that simplifies operations, while enhancing the operator’s marketing capabilities and reactivity. The convergent billing solution will enable operators to offer the same level of service, regardless of subscription type and any type of access for Fixed - Mobile Convergence (FMC), VoIP etc. For instance for mobile services, a prepaid...
Report Says Oracle in Talks to Acquire Intec Billing 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). In the Sunday Telegraph article, Iain Dey reports that Oracle's president, Charles Phillips, met with Intec Billing's CEO Kevin Adams earlier this month: Charles Phillips, Oracle's president, met Intec's chief executive Kevin Adams in central London earlier this month. Although Intec has yet to receive an offer from Oracle, a potential transaction has been discussed. Intec, which produces billing systems for telecoms companies, has beaten Oracle in two recent competitive tenders. Shares in Intec –...
Oracle Buys Portal Software Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that it will acquire Portal Software, Inc. (OTC BB: PRSF.PK), a leading global provider of billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industry, through a cash tender offer for $4.90 per share, or approximately $220 million. "The combination of Oracle and Portal delivers the first end-to-end packaged enterprise software suite for the communications industry," said Oracle’s President Charles Phillips. "We supply technology and applications to over 90% of communications companies worldwide today, and billing is a logical and complementary addition for those customers." Oracle has had a long commitment to the communications...
Comverse ONETM Billing and Active Customer Management Solution to Reduce Complexity and Accelerate Time to Revenue Launched In Deployment at Quad-Play Operator Comverse® announced availability of the Comverse® ONETM Billing and Active Customer Management solution, which is the industry’s only customer care and billing solution built around a single data model and a single product catalog that allows seamless and efficient support for both multi-service and payment convergence all through one system. Regardless of payment or service type, this approach uniquely gives operators the ability to use one system to manage all subscribers consistently, as well as accelerate the launch of new offers and promotions. This Comverse ONE approach lowers costs, accelerates time to revenue and improves...
Sicap Selects RateIntegration PriceMaker Solution for Prepaid Wireless Billing, Assurance, and Loyalty Management RateIntegration, the leading provider of Revenue Lifecycle Management Solutions, today announced that Sicap AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Swisscom Mobile, has selected RateIntegration’s PriceMaker Enterprise Pricing Server as the core pricing server for its prepaid wireless, assurance, and loyalty platforms. The PriceMaker software architecture offers extremely flexible real-time pricing and rating. These capabilities enable companies to rapidly deploy innovative 3G and other service bundles. Further, PriceMaker-enabled solutions have been designed to be IMS-ready so that operators can take advantage of the emerging 3GPP standards framework for monetizing IP services. Sicap’s unique configuration-driven pricing and charging platform will enable fast...
Oracle Outlines Roadmap for Comprehensive Service Delivery Platform for Telecommunications Industry Building on Oracle's leadership in middleware and information management and the company's experience in carrier-grade communications infrastructure, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today outlined its roadmap for a comprehensive, standards-based Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for the telecommunications industry. The new Oracle(R) SDP is being designed to enable communication service providers, network operators and system integrators to evolve current silo-based network investments into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and shrink the time and cost to deploy new voice data and integrated multimedia services on existing and next-generation communication Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Enterprises are expected to be able to extend their communication infrastructures with...
Meteor Mobile Communications Selects Ericsson Charging Solution Meteor Mobile Communications has selected Ericsson's real-time charging solution, Charging System CS3.0, for its combined GSM and 3G services in Ireland. Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson has supplied Meteor with its Charging System 3.0, providing the mobile operator with functionality such as real-time costs and spending control, flexible special promotions capability and real-time bonus applications. CS3.0 provides Meteor with a robust solution that will allow expansion of its services, improve current services including prepaid roaming and increase revenues. The solution is in full commercial service in Meteor’s network. Brendan Lynch, Chief Operating Officer of Meteor Mobile Communications, says:...
New Horizon Communications Selects OSS BSS Solution from Info Directions Info Directions (booth #1008), a developer of net-centric billing, rating, order management, workflow and selling solutions for the telecommunications industry, has announced that Waltham, Mass.-based service provider New Horizon Communications has extended their relationship with the decision to implement the CostGuard®.NET OSS/BSS software. New Horizon Communications (NHC) will use CostGuard.NET in the Info Directions ASP to manage rating, billing, operations and customer care functions for its rapidly growing subscriber base. NHC is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) with offices in the Northeast and Florida. NHC leverages its reseller agreements with the leading carriers to custom-tailor voice, data and Internet...
Oracle Acquires MetaSolv MetaSolv, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSLV), a global leader in service fulfillment operations support system (OSS) solutions for next-generation communications service providers, has announced that Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) has agreed to acquire MetaSolv through a cash merger for $4.10 per share, or approximately $219.2 million. The agreement is subject to stockholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in late 2006 or early 2007. MetaSolv offers communications service providers a comprehensive product set for OSS service fulfillment - including provisioning, network inventory and activation. MetaSolv's standards-based solutions support all types of services including next-generation IMS, VoIP, IPTV, IP VPN, broadband...