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Operax Wins IEC InfoVision Award

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The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) and the Broadband World Forum Asia 2007 team have selected Operax Bandwidth Manager 5500 as winner of prestigious InfoVision Award for the category Access Network Technologies and Services. The InfoVision Award recognizes technologies, applications, products, advances, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the telecommunications industry. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Chosen by Bahamas Telecommunications Company to Reduce Fraud and Increase Revenues

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Subex Azure Limited, a leading global provider of OSS solutions for telecom operators, has recently announced that The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC) has selected its Nikira(TM), Moneta(TM) and Concilia(TM) revenue maximization products to improve its financial performance. Subex Azure’s products will proactively monitor BTC’s wireless and wireline networks to reduce potential fraud activity and revenue leakage, enhance customer service and improve inter-carrier settlements. [Read more…]

Operax and DMX Technologies Sign Strategic Partnership

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Operax, the leading vendor of Network Service Quality control solutions, and DMX Technologies Group (DMX), have signed a reseller agreement for the growing Asian market. As a leading IT solutions provider of broadband network infrastructure to the telecommunications industry, DMX will further strengthen its position within the digital interactive value added services by offering Operax QoS control and Bandwidth Management solutions. [Read more…]

Vodafone Iceland Selects FTS Business Control and Billing Solutions

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FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Business Control, Billing and CRM solutions for communications service providers, has recently announced that Icelandic operator Og Fjarskipti, trading under the Vodafone brand, will overhaul its billing system using FTS” Leapâ„¢ Billing and Leapâ„¢ Business Control Engine (Leap BCE) solutions, enabling next generation services with real time customer interaction. [Read more…]

Aepona and Appium to Merge

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Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom and Appium, a leading technology vendor offering Telecom Application Server and Service Creation Environment products based in Malmö, Sweden, will merge to create the world’s leading independent vendor for the Telecom Service Layer. [Read more…]

Highdeal Receives TeleManagement Forum Excellence Award

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Highdeal, the world leader in Pricing & Rating solutions, has won the 2007 TeleManagement Forum Excellence Award for “Most Innovative Supplier.” The award was given in recognition of Highdeal’s exceptional leadership and innovation in expanding the boundaries of OSS and BSS solutions and greatly improving Service Providers ability to offer new next generation services. [Read more…]

MetraTech Nominated for Global Billing Award

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MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of Web Services-based billing, customer self-care and partner management, has announced that for the third consecutive year, the company has been nominated as a finalist for a prestigious World Billing Award. The winners will be announced at IIR’s Billing & Information Management Systems 2007 conference in London next week. [Read more…]

Huawei Helps KPN’s Telfort Better Serve Its Customers

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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Huawei”), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, recently held the contract signing ceremony in its headquarters in Shenzhen, China with Telfort, part of the Netherlands’ largest telecoms operator KPN, announcing that Telfort will procure the prepay solution of Huawei CBS. Huawei CBS will help operators build an open and horizontal billing architecture with the capability to support various networks and services. [Read more…]

ECtel Appoints Michael Neumann as its SVP and CFO

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ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading global provider of Integrated Revenue Managementâ„¢ (IRMâ„¢) solutions, has appointed Michael Neumann as the Company’s new Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, commencing July 1, 2007. Michael will replace Ron Fainaro who will be working with him to facilitate a smooth transition and assumption of responsibilities. [Read more…]

Indonesian Convergent Operator Selects Evolving Systems and Accenture for Next Generation Solutions

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Evolving Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-EVOL), a leading provider of software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline and IP carrier market and regional partner Accenture Pte Ltd, has recently announced that it has been selected by a convergent telecoms operator in Indonesia to provide next generation service activation solutions. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks Signs UK Revenue Assurance Agreement with BT

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cVidya Networks, a global leader of telecom data integrity and revenue assurance systems, has recently announced that BT has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya’s MoneyMap® solution across its UK operations. This agreement follows on successful execution of cVidya’s project with BT in 2006 and subsequent ITT process. [Read more…]

Jersey Telecom Group Chooses MACH’s New Market Leading Financial Clearing Solution Over Direct Competitor

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MACH, the leading global clearing and settlement partner for mobile based transactions, today announced that the Jersey Telecom Group (JTG) has changed Financial Clearing House from their previous service supplier and have chosen to deploy MACH’s new Financial Clearing solution. This is the first project MACH has undertaken since its merger with Cibernet providing JTG with an integrated solution that is underpinned by the One1Clear system, developed originally by Cibernet. [Read more…]

Comverse Kenan FX Customer Care, Fulfillment & Billing Solution Deployed by CTM

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Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. and the world’s leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, has recently announced that CTM, Macau’s only full telecom service provider, has deployed the Comverse Kenan® FX Business Solution to cover the customer care, fulfilment and billing functionality for its mobile network. The Comverse Kenan FX system will support CTM’s planned 3G services expected to be rolled out in Q2. In addition, CTM is currently in the process of overhauling its mobile BSS infrastructure with the assistance of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), Comverse and other vendors. [Read more…]

Analysys Reveals Increasing Concentration Of Market Power In BSS OSS

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The number of system sales announcements for telecoms IT (BSS/OSS) solutions dropped markedly in 2006, according to a new report, Billing and OSS Trends: the transition to telecoms IT, published by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (http://research.analysys.com). In 2006 there were 456 system sales announced globally, compared with 569 in 2005 and 514 in 2004, according to Analysys. [Read more…]

Subex Azure launches Nikira V6.0

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Subex Azure Limited, a leading global provider of OSS solutions for telecom operators, has recently announced the launch of Nikira V6.0, the latest version of its leading fraud management system. Nikira helps wireline and wireless telecom operators to detect and investigate both traditional and next-generation frauds in order to prevent revenue leakage. The Operator Attitudes to Revenue Assurance 2006 survey, conducted by UK based telecom analyst firm Analysys, revealed that an operator on an average loses around 4 percent of its annual revenue due to fraud. [Read more…]

Comarch and PSI Join Forces in the OSS Arena

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Comarch and PSI, well-known members of TeleManagement Forum, announced today that they will cooperate in the global Telecommunication markets

Comarch the leading OSS solutions supplier and PSI TELCO the leading network management supplier have agreed to create a common solution combining Comarch OSS Suite and PSI Configuration Management System based on TeleManagement Forum NGOSS principles. [Read more…]

Comarch Received a “Strong” Rating in Gartner’s Market Report

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Comarch’s offering for telecoms receives “Strong” rating in Leading Analyst Firm’s BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors (2007).

Comarch, the leading provider of IT systems for telecoms, received a “Strong” rating in Gartner’s market report: “Dataquest Insight: BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2007.” [Read more…]

TELUS Completes Deployment of Sigma Systems’ OSS Service Management Solution

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TELUS has deployed Sigma Systems’ Service Management Platform (SMP) to support service provisioning and activation of wireless voice and data services to more than 5.1 million subscribers. TELUS, an $8.8 billion Canadian telecommunications carrier, chose Sigma’s SMP because of the company’s proven expertise deploying wireless operational support systems (OSS). [Read more…]