Clarity, the telecommunication industry’s Operational Support System (OSS) business process automation company, will be joining forces with India’s Reliance Communications at this year’s TeleManagement World conference in Nice to deliver a valuable paper on how convergent phone operators can optimise the returns on their infrastructure investments using an NGOSS-based approach to OSS.

Sumit Chowdhury, CIO of Reliance India and member of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) Advisory Board together with Tony Kalcina, Founder of Clarity, will present “Taming the Network Beast - Realizing Early Profit through a Practical NGOSS based Unified OSS implementation” at 2pm on Wednesday May 23, the second day of the TeleManagement Forum’s TeleManagement World conference, at the Acropolis Convention Centre in Nice, France.

The paper, to be delivered as part of the Process Transformation session within the conference’s IT & Operations Track (IT/OPS31), will be of importance to the converged fixed/mobile phone operator community in:

– Articulating the practical, technical and organisational experience gained in creating a highly-automated, next-generation operational support system-inspired convergent telco.
– Discussing how to develop an optimised telecommunications business in a highly competitive, low average revenue per user (ARPU) environment with very high levels of churn.
– Providing a practical insight into how to address the scalability issues involved in transforming a legacy telecommunications operator into a next-generation provider able to serve more than 100 million subscribers.
– Demonstrating best-practice techniques and solutions-based advice useful to TeleManagement Forum members as they shape their transformation strategies to address new forms of competition.

“India is still basking in the glow of becoming the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market,” said Kalcina. “Last year alone, the number of mobile phone subscribers in India nearly doubled from the previous year to reach almost 150 million. With the market growing at about 6 million new subscribers every month, this market is set to double again in size in the next couple of years. Needless to say, this is putting tremendous pressure on operators to implement systems that are not only extremely scalable, but also allow them to realise the profits associated with this extraordinary growth.”

About Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications Limited, founded by the late Shri. Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002), is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Rated among Asia ‘ s 6 Topmost Valuable Telecom Companies, Reliance Communications is India ‘ s foremost truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of over 34 million, including close to one million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 600 Indian and 250 multinational corporations, and over 200 global carriers.

Reliance Communications Limited has established a pan-India, next-generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain, covering over 6,000 towns and 300,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world ‘ s largest next-generation, IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 150,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems in India , USA , Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. Website: www.reliancecommunications.co.in.

About Clarity
Clarity is the telecommunication industry’s Operational Support System (OSS) business process automation company – providing a pre-integrated product and database that streamlines the 17 eTOM elements of OSS into a single suite. This also allows Clarity to provide executive visibility of the network ‘ s impact on revenue and customer experience across both service fulfilment and assurance.

Having simplified the management of both legacy and next-generation network environments, Clarity OSS is network and services neutral, driven by templates that are rapidly configurable to allow operators to cut time to market for any new service by two-thirds. Today Clarity simplifies network support for over 90 million subscribers worldwide.

Established in 1993, Clarity’s global headquarter is in Sydney , Australia , with offices in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America .

For more information, please visit us at www.clarity.com