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COLT Selects Comverse Billing and Customer Care Solution

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Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT) and a leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, has announced that COLT, a leading European provider of business communications, has selected Comverse Kenan® FX to support its postpaid billing for data, voice and managed services for its European customers. COLT services are based on its advanced European infrastructure, which includes 32 city networks across 13 countries with last-mile fibre to over 10,000 buildings and 15 COLT owned data centres. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Announces New Brand Identity for Its Revenue Maximization Solutions

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Subex Azure Limited, a leading vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has unveiled the new identity for its integrated suite of software solutions. Subex Azure has named its solution suite as Rocware. The six solutions that form the Rocware suite have also been re-branded to reinforce the global nature of the company’s business. This initiative represents a significant milestone in the company’s effort to integrate overlapping solution offerings following its acquisition of Azure Solutions Ltd. in June 2006 and aims to reinforce customer confidence in these ongoing efforts. [Read more…]

JDSU to Acquire Casabyte

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JDSU has signed an agreement to purchase Casabyte Inc., a provider of service quality monitoring solutions for mobile network operators. JDSU is a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. JDSU expects to complete the acquisition of Casabyte in the current fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2007. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [Read more…]

Primus Selects Telarix’s iXTools ASP

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Telarix, Inc., a leading provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced that Primus Telecommunications, Inc., an integrated communications services provider and one of the world’s top ten wholesale carriers, has selected iXTools ASP service to reduce costs and enhance margins in its interconnect business. [Read more…]

Tango Telecom Expands Sales and Marketing Team

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Tango Telecom, a leading provider of real-time convergent charging and intelligent messaging software, has expanded its global Sales and Marketing team with the addition of three executives. Thomas Chu joins as Sales Director for Asia based in Kuala Lumpur, Guillermo Prada as Business Development Manager for Americas in Buenos Aires and Rebecca Walsh as Marketing and Communications Manager based at Tango Telecom’s headquarters in Ireland. [Read more…]

Amdocs to Acquire SigValue Technologies

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Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), a leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), has signed an agreement to acquire SigValue Technologies, Inc. (SigValue), a provider of an integrated billing, customer care, and service control platform designed for service providers in high-growth emerging markets around the world. Amdocs currently owns 14% of SigValue’s outstanding capital stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Amdocs will acquire all of SigValue’s remaining share capital for approximately $54 million in cash, net of cash on hand. [Read more…]

HickoryTech Sells Enterprise Solutions Subsidiary to Skyview Capital

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HickoryTech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO) recently entered into an agreement to sell its Enterprise Solutions subsidiary, based in Roseville, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, to Skyview Capital, LLC, a privately held investment firm based in Los Angeles. Terms were not disclosed. The Enterprise Solutions subsidiary, formally known as Collins Communication Systems Company, provided IP Telephony, call center management and data network solutions, primarily through Nortel hardware solutions. [Read more…]

Upcoming Telecom OSS Conferences in 2007

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OSS News Review is partnering with several upcoming telecom operational support system OSS conferences that are being held in 2007. Some of these events include the 2007 Next Gen OSS Integration Summit being held in Boston, Massachusetts from March 5 – 7, 2007, the Asia Pacific Billing & Revenue Assurance 2007, and the Telecom Fraud Summit 2007, being held at the Hilton Singapore on the 25 – 26 April 2007. [Read more…]

SFR France Launches MVNE Operations Supported by LHS Billing and Customer Care System

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LHS, a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide, recently announced that SFR France has gone live with LHS’ billing and customer care system BSCS iX for its newly-established Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) business. [Read more…]

CyberTel Capital Corporation to Acquire Global Vision Telecom

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CyberTel Capital Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBCL – News), has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire the switching and billing business from Global Vision Telecom, Inc. (“GVT”). GVT was started by telecom veterans to provide an improved platform for managing long distance and other types of calling services. [Read more…]

Intec Billing Renews CABS Carrier Access Billing Service Bureau Agreement

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Intec Billing, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS) for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has announced the renewal of a multi-year, multi-million dollar Carrier Access Billing (CABS) agreement with a Tier 1 US service provider. Carrier access billing allows local service providers to charge other communications companies for access to their customer facilities. [Read more…]

Tollgrade Broadband Triple-Play Test Technology Chosen for Deploymentin Two Projects

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Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: TLGD – News), a leader in the communications test and management industry, was awarded, through in-country partnerships, two significant international projects to supply its multi- layered testing solutions for country-wide networks. These awards follow extensive competitive technical reviews and include a full suite of Tollgrade’s DigiTest® test hardware and LoopCare(TM) software for comprehensive testing of IP triple-play services in advanced DSL access networks. [Read more…]

SunCom Wireless Renews Contract with Convergys

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, has announced a 5-year managed services contract renewal with SunCom Wireless (NYSE: TPC) to continue managing SunCom’s billing operations. SunCom Wireless, formerly Triton PCS, has more than one million wireless customers and has been a Convergys client since 1997. [Read more…]

Infosim Unveils Scalable Service Assurance Solution

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Infosim, a provider of scalable service assurance and service level management solutions, has released version 4 of its flagship product: StableNet Enterprise. StableNet Enterprise version 4 is a platform for service assurance management of large-scale and complex IT environments. StableNet version 4 is designed for distributed multi-vendor and multi-service networks and delivers superior performance management and more efficient event processing capabilities as well as extended reporting. [Read more…]

TeleManagement Forum Excellence Awards to Recognize Global Operational Innovation

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The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) has announced the launch of the “TM Forum Excellence Awards,” aimed at recognizing operators, system integrators and software companies that have made outstanding contributions towards 21st century telecom business transformation through noteworthy operational and service delivery initiatives. Mick Reeves, former Group Technology Officer of UK telecoms giant BT, will head up the judging panel. [Read more…]

Intec Billing Releases Financial Results

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Intec Telecom Systems PLC (“Intec” or “the Company”), a leading supplier of software solutions to the global telecoms industry, has announced its audited results for the year ended 30 September 2006 (“FY 2006”), prepared under IFRS1. Full year revenue decreased by 3% to £112.3 million as a result of difficult trading conditions in some regions in the latter half of the year, largely due to consolidation among major telecom carriers. [Read more…]