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Sonus Networks Makes Flat-Rate Pricing Profitable for Wireless Operators

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IP Connectivity Enables Mobile Operators to Turn Profit at the Edge

Mobile operators are helped to embrace flat rate pricing plans by Sonus Networks, Inc. without the major increases to operating costs usually associated with increased traffic or subscribers. The Sonus core infrastructure components can be integrated to enable operators to retain competitive pricing models through IP-to-IP peering, advanced media services and transcoder-free operation. Sonus Networks is exhibiting these and other wireless solutions at CTIA 2008, Las Vegas, at Booth #3439. [Read more…]

New Operations and Billing System from Info Directions, Inc. Installed at CREDO Mobile

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Solution brings new workflow capabilities for productivity gains and provides the technology infrastructure to support the progressive MVNO’s growing member base

Info Directions announced that San Francisco-based MVNO CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets Wireless) has completed installation of its CostGuard® XG operations and billing system to support a growing member base. [Read more…]

Telco Champions vie for Honors in 11th Telecom Asia Awards 2008

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Telecom Asia magazine announced today that Telstra Corp., Softbank Mobile, and SingTel are among the finalists competing for Asia’s leading telecom industry honors.

The 11th Telecom Asia Awards honors will be presented next Tuesday, April 8. The shortlist of nominees, which were released ahead of the presentation, covers ten categories, from mobile to managed services to new technology.

Telstra has been shortlisted in three categories – Best Mobile, Best Broadband and CEO of the Year – while Softbank and SingTel both picked up nominations for the mobile and CEO honors.

Malaysia’s DiGi and KTF from Korea are also up for final selection in the hotly-contested mobile category.

Bill Barney of Pacnet is the fourth finalist for CEO of the Year, competing against Softbank’s Masayhoshi Son, SingTel’s Allen Lew, and Telstra’s Sol Trujillo.

In a new category, Telecom Innovation of the Year, six ground-breaking products won through to the final.

The Best Asian Telecom Carrier will be chosen from among the winners of all the carrier categories.

Joseph Waring, Group Editor of Telecom Asia, said: “These awards are intended to recognize outstanding achievement by Asian telecom service providers. The addition of a new category for innovation highlights the pressure on carriers to develop fresh product segments and services to gain competitive advantage.”

The awards are chosen by an independent panel of industry experts, making their selections based on financial performance, technology, market leadership, and corporate governance.

The judging panel is supported by analysis from the global IT telecom and software research firm Ovum.

Last year’s biggest winner was SK Telecom, which took out the overall prize for Best Asian Telecom Carrier as well as Best Mobile Carrier. Allen Lew, chief of SingTel Singapore, won the CEO prize and Indian telco Bharti Airtel was voted Best Emerging Market Carrier.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony at Indigo Pearl, Phuket, Thailand, held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Executive Forum, which is being organized by Intec.

About Telecom Asia

Telecom Asia is Asia’s largest regional telecom publishing group. It publishes the magazines Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia, and Charged and the Website www.telecomasia.net, aimed at telecommunications professionals around the region. Combined, these titles serve more than 100,000 subscribers.

For more information, please visit their website: http://www.telecomasia.net

About Ovum

Ovum’s primary activity is providing value-added advisory services and consulting to retain and project clients. The company acts as a well-respected and trusted source of industry data, knowledge and expertise on the commercial impact of technology, and regulatory and market changes. Ovum engages in continuous research and industry analysis to determine market dynamics in its specialist sectors.

Ovum has developed long-standing relationships with many of its corporate clients, which include major international blue-chip companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra, and Vodafone.

Ovum is part of the Datamonitor Group.

For more information, please visit their website: http://www.ovum.com/

Websites: http://www.telecomasia.net
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New Whitepaper Published on Supporting Business Transformation

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Value of Dynamic Business Modeling highlighted by Independent analyst house

A new whitepaper titled “Supporting Business Transformation: More than IT can handle” by Stratecast, Frost & Sullivan is being published.

Karl Whitelock, Senior Consulting Analyst, OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies (OSSCS), authored the paper that examines how service convergence is placing heretofore demands on Business Support Systems. Particularly in the area of billing, It concludes that assumptions governing systems development and implementation projects “only a few short years ago are no longer valid in today’s changing business environment.” [Read more…]

2007 Product of the Year Award Presented to ASC by Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine

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INSPIRATIONcompact Honored for Outstanding Innovation

INSPIRATIONcompact received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions (CIS) magazine®, as announced today by ASC. The CIS magazine has been the leading publication covering CRM, call centers, and teleservices since 1982. [Read more…]

Comarch’s Web 2.0 solution Wins Firm Innovation Award

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Comarch was honored with the Award for Innovation at “Innovationspreis 2008” because of its product, Virtual Consulting Services (VCS). This product enables web based end user collaboration. With awards in 33 categories, a total of 1600 products were in the running at “Innovationspreis 2008.” [Read more…]

Branham’s “Top 25 Canadian Software Companies” Adds Sigma Systems to the List for 2008

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Branham Group and Backbone magazine, as part of the annual “Branham300” roundup of top- performing technology companies, named Sigma Systems to be one of Canada’s top 25 software companies for 2008. Furthermore, Sigma was also honored to be chosen as one of Branham300’s highest performing companies. For the last 15 years, the Branham300 has been THE measure by which the success of Canadian technology companies have been gauged. [Read more…]

Comptel Finalized a Major License Deal with IBM India

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IBM in India concluded a significant long-term agreement with Comptel Corporation to deliver and maintain the Comptel Convergent Charging Solution, which is being used by a leading operator in India. This solution is in addition to the existing online mediation solution delivered earlier by Comptel and IBM. [Read more…]

Triad’s Latest Interface Supports Integra5’s On-screen Caller ID Feature

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Single OSS provisioning solution now offers manufacturer specific interfaces to over 35 voice, video and data technology platforms.

Triad, the flagship OSS provisioning solution of Enhanced Telecommunications d/b/a ETI Software Solutions, Inc., has been successfully interfaced to the Integra5 on-screen caller ID platform. This interface enables the Integra5 platform, which is capable of displaying caller ID information like the caller’s name and telephone number on a cable subscriber’s television screen, to be easily integrated into any billing solution. [Read more…]

New SILVX Offering from Sycamore Networks to Enhance Service Management in Metro and Regional Networks

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Simplified Provisioning, Reduced Costs, and Improved Partitioning Views for Ease of Multi-Layer Service Management is offered by the SilvxManager® for Windows and Layered Services Management Tools

Announcing the SilvxManager for Windows and Layered Services Management features, Sycamore Networks, Inc. today explained that the new product would augment its recently introduced SN 9000 Intelligent Multi-service Switch. The new offering was designed to assist network operators reduce costs and complexity, enhance the management of diverse services, and improve overall operational efficiencies in metro and regional multi-service networks. [Read more…]

Cypress Communications C4 IP Solution Awarded 2007 Product of the Year by Unified Communication Magazine

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Cypress Communications’ hosted VoIP and unified communications solution recognized for outstanding innovation

Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Unified Communications magazine named Cypress Communications’ C4 IP solution 2007 Product of the Year. Being an enterprise-class hosted VoIP and unified communications solution, C4 IP features integrated voice/data access, desktop phones, softphones and cutting-edge multimedia applications. Some of multimedia applications include unified messaging, Microsoft® Outlook integration, collaboration, real-time presence, chat, as well as audio, video and Web conferencing. The functionality of this innovative unified communications is backed with LAN/WAN management, a 24/7 fully redundant national VoIP network and high-touch customer service. [Read more…]

Intec’s Convergent Billing’s Crucial Phase Implemented at Polkomtel S.A.

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Intec completed the initial phase in the implementation of its Intec Convergent Billing technology with Polkomtel. Intec’s convergent architecture is a new innovation in the Polish market that will permit Polkomtel to launch new value added and bundle services and to implement new marketing campaigns, such as special rates for family and friends. As part of a long-term and extensive partnership agreement, this project was begun last year. [Read more…]