Vallentâ„¢ Corporation, a global leader in Service Assurance management, has recently announced that Mobiltel will deploy their Performance Management solution to help manage and deliver quality multimedia and traditional services over their GSM and UMTS networks.

Mobiltel is part of the mobilkom austria group (mag), the wireless segment of Telekom Austria . Together, the members of mag serve 9.5 million customers in Austria , Bulgaria , Croatia , Slovenia and Liechtenstein . The group’s cooperative spirit and transfer of intelligence allows them to offer their customers stronger, more innovative solutions.

Mobiltel, the biggest mobile operator in Bulgaria , is one of the most successful mobile operators in Europe . Mobiltel is the only Bulgarian operator to offer EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA services to its clients and became the world’s fifth to launch HSDPA.

“We’re committed to providing the newest and widest variety of high-bandwidth services on the market,” said Thomas Klemenschits, Chief Technical Officer of Mobiltel. “Vallent offers solutions and expertise that help us roll-out high quality new services faster.”

Vallent’s performance management (PM) solution provides critical metrics that enable Mobiltel to manage their network infrastructure. With the PM solution, Mobiltel can assess the quality of their EDGE, UMTS, and HSDPA networks, monitor daily and hourly network performance, isolate, analyze and fix service-affecting problems, and plan and forecast infrastructure capacity.

Mobiltel is committed to maintaining its leadership position in Bulgaria and Europe by continuing to roll out innovative and progressive new services. In March 2006, Mobiltel started offering its clients the first UMTS/HSDPA network in Bulgaria . In December 2005, the operator enlarged its network capacity to 5 million customers.

“Mobiltel’s roll out of a nationwide 3G UMTS/HSDPA network is a significant success and we are proud of the role we have played to help make that possible,” said John Hansen, CEO of Vallent. “We look forward to providing ongoing performance management support as Mobiltel continues to deliver new, powerful multi-media services to their mobile customers.”

About Mobiltel
Mobiltel is recognized as the innovative telecom market leader in Bulgaria and one of the most successful mobile operators in Europe . Today the Company serves 4 Million clients. In 2005 the operator won the only UMTS A Class license tender in Bulgaria for a 20-year term. Six months later - on September 14, 2005, Mobiltel presented the first operational UMTS network in Bulgaria . On March 6, 2006 the company introduced the first 3G services in Bulgaria and the mobile data access over HSDPA.

Since July 2005 Mobiltel is part of the mobilkom austria group - together with mobilkom austria, Vipnet, Si.mobil and mobilkom liechtenstein. In February 2006 Mobiltel announced the cooperation with Vodafone, thanks to which Mobiltel started offering selected Vodafone services to its clients.

About Vallent Corporation
Vallent Corporation (www.vallent.com) is the global leader in Service Assurance management of evolving, complex communication services. Through its deep communications network knowledge, the company helps service providers leverage their network data to improve operational performance. Vallent’s proven solutions are deployed in over 200 operators worldwide and are offered by the leading network equipment providers. The company’s integrated network Performance Management and Service Quality Management solutions increase operational efficiency, enable service providers to quickly adapt to technology changes, accelerate the transition to a customer-focused enterprise and close the loop between network performance, the customer experience, service quality and business objectives. The company, formed in February 2005 from the merger of WatchMark-Comnitel and Metrica® Software Systems, operates globally with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, USA and major offices and support centers in Richmond and Bath in the UK, Cork and Galway in Ireland , and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

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