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Budget Telecom Chooses Highdeal for Pricing and Rating of New VOIP Services

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions has announced that Budget Telecom, a prosperous low-cost telecommunications provider, has selected Highdeal to price and rate its new VoIP services. In a second phase, Highdeal will replace Budget Telecom’s existing pricing and rating infrastructure for all other IP services as well as future fixed-mobile and MVNO services. [Read more…]

Openet Adds Eastern European Operator to Client List

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Openet, a leading provider of active mediation, charging and rating solutions, has announced that the leading mobile operator in an Eastern Europe country is the latest addition to Openet’s ever expanding customer list. The operator, which has nearly 2 million subscribers and controls more than 50% of the mobile communications revenue and mobile Internet markets in its home country, will use Openet’s FusionWorksâ„¢ ActiveCharge and ActiveRate solutions to deliver convergent real-time pre and post-paid charging and rating platform for voice and data services. [Read more…]

Survey Says African Telcos Losing Billions

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has revealed that African telecom operators are estimated to be losing over a quarter of revenues due to revenue leakage, which is double the global average (12.1 per cent).

The ‘Operator Attitudes to Revenue Assurance 2006’ report conducted by Subex Azure and telecoms analysts Analysys, reveals that the estimated loss across the sample of African operators was 26.8 per cent which is the equivalent to $25.7bn. [Read more…]

Xero Mobile Completes Phase Three of Implementation Plan

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Xero Mobile’s (Pink Sheets:XRMB) revolutionary ad-subsidized mobile phone service for college students is entering its pilot testing phase, the company recently announced, after completing the design and implementation of its core systems with technology partner XIUS.

Xero features TV-style ads with better ability to measure viewership than direct mail, the accountability of the Web and the intimacy of mobile, and unlike many competitors, has developed its own integrated telecommunications solution to provide a range of services. [Read more…]

VoluBill Signs Deal with Mobile Operator in Northern Africa

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VoluBill, a leading supplier of real-time charging, control and monitoring applications for IP-based mobile services, has announced their selection for a groundbreaking new deal with a major Northern African affiliate of a leading mobile telecoms group. According to the terms of the agreement, VoluBill will supply its Charge Itâ„¢ real-time data control and charging solution which is valued at close to one million Euros.

“Mobile services are growing rapidly in many North African countries and companies are looking for charging applications that can keep up with the pace of change,” explains John Aalbers, CEO of VoluBill. “This new deal is part of our customer’s overall strategy to offer a fully convergent suite of the most innovative data services possible in this fast-growing market. VoluBill’s Charge it™ solution will help manage traffic across the mobile network and enable the operator’s VAS team to use the information to charge for any type of service in real-time, with content awareness.”

VoluBill’s solution Charge itâ„¢ will enable the mobile operator to implement sophisticated value-based charging strategies that allows them to differentiate their services through innovative packages, bundles and promotions. Charge itâ„¢ is a proven solution with a growing list of global customers, including Orange, Orascom, Bharti, Globe Telecom and Digicel Group amongst others. [Read more…]

Vivodi Telecom Upgrades to ACE-COMM Hyperconvergent Mediation Platform

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS and value-added services applications, has announced that Vivodi Telecommunications, S.A. will be deploying its new N*VISION® 2 (NV2) hyperconvergent mediation solution. Vivodi is a rapidly-growing next-generation Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and IP/Data service provider in Greece. NV2 is the next generation of ACE*COMM’s award winning convergent mediation solution, which has been significantly enhanced to meet the demands of carriers’ mediation and collection environments. [Read more…]

ECtel Awarded FraudView Project from Telecom Namibia

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ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Managementâ„¢ (IRMâ„¢) solutions, has been awarded a project for the implementation of FraudView®, its fraud detection and prevention solution, from Telecom Namibia Limited. The contract totals $1.2 Million, and followed a successful pilot on live traffic. [Read more…]

MetaSolv Drives Service Delivery Innovation with Provisioning 6

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MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in service fulfillment operations support system (OSS) solutions for next-generation communications service providers, has launched MetaSolv Provisioning 6, the latest release of MetaSolv’s market-leading next-generation provisioning control platform. This release incorporates MetaSolv’s innovative new intelligent change management technology to dramatically reduce the costs of processing in-flight order changes. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Delivers Telecom Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance to MTC Namibia

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has successfully deployed its fraud management and revenue assurance systems at MTC Namibia.

MTC Namibia is the leading mobile services provider in Namibia, with in excess of 500,000 subscribers. Portugal Telecom recently acquired a 34 per cent in the company, and MTC Namibia was looking to further expand its reach in the region. As MTC Namibia’s network grows, it wanted to ensure that it had greater visibility of traffic crossing its network and had the tools to minimize its exposure to revenue leakage and reduce fraud on its pre-paid services. [Read more…]

TEOCO Corporation Acquires Vibrant Solutions

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TEOCO, a leading provider of cost and revenue management solutions to the communications and entertainment industries, has acquired Vibrant Solutions Carrier Cost Management and Business Intelligence business which includes: ViewLogic, Acuity and Cost of Access software systems as well as the trademarks of Vibrant Solutions and HyperAnalytics. [Read more…]

Veramark Signs Deal with Leading Mass Media Company

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) has announced the receipt of a VeraSMART order approaching $200,000 from a leading diversified mass media company. The customer will utilize the full suite of VeraSMART modules to track charges for Assets as well as other costs. The new Work Order module will be used to provision new services and manage change orders, and the Invoice Management module will be used to track wireless charges. The customer chose the Veramark solution because of its robust functionality, complete integration of modules, and the ease of use provided by the browser based web interface. [Read more…]

Bezeq International Selects cVidya Networks for Rating and Billing Verification

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cVidya Networks, a global leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, has announced that Bezeq International, Israel’s leading international calls operator, largest provider of broadband internet (ISP) and total business solutions, has chosen cVidya’s MoneyMap® for Rating and Billing Verification.

This solution will allow Bezeq International to support a wide range of varied and complex bundled price plans and promotion campaigns needed to succeed amidst increasingly competitive market conditions, while preventing the revenue leakage to which such plans are often susceptible. This agreement was preceded by a thorough evaluation process, in which Proof of Concepts were conducted among a number of competing solutions. Significant criteria for the choice were configurability, quick set-up of plans and comprehensive data analysis capabilities. [Read more…]

PC Management Upgrade Cerillion Billing Solution to Drive Growth

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Convergent Billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, today announced that PC Management have signed a new contract to upgrade their existing billing solution to Cerillion 3. The upgrade will enable PC Management to provide improved service levels for their Immix Wireless GSM operation in Pennsylvania, and help drive growth in new markets. [Read more…]

Telecommunications Leaders to Create IT Reference Architecture for Rapid Product and Service Assembly

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Eight of the world’s leading telecommunications companies (including Service Providers, vendors and professional services) have announced the launch of the collaborative ‘Product and Service Assembly’ TeleManagement Forum Catalyst project. The collaboration, which includes Atos Origin, Axiom Systems, BT, Cable & Wireless, Celona, Huawei, Oracle and TeliaSonera, aims to create a unique IT reference architecture that demonstrates how Service Providers can dramatically reduce the cost and time to market of their product and service lifecycles in the fast developing value added IP services domain. [Read more…]

bcgi Opens New Office in Spain

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bcgi (NASDAQ:BCGI), a leading provider of products and solutions that enable mobile operators and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) worldwide to differentiate their offerings and increase market penetration while reducing costs, has recently announced its continued international expansion with the official opening of an office in Madrid, Spain. The new location places bcgi directly in the economic heart of Spain, giving clients in Southern Europe greater access to the company’s expertise in billing and payment solutions. [Read more…]

NetCracker Expands Global Footprint and Increases OSS Market Share

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NetCracker Technology has reached two corporate milestones with back-to-back customer wins around the globe and a fast-growing workforce to support its implementations. This is the third year in a row that NetCracker has more than doubled its worldwide personnel to meet the growing demand for NetCracker solutions in the global communications service provider marketplace.

To support the company’s rapid European expansion, including new customer wins in the Netherlands, UK and France, NetCracker announced the opening of a new office in London. The new office will manage ongoing implementations in the region. [Read more…]

Expenditure on New Mobile Phone Charging Systems to Grow 30 Percent

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Juniper Research has forecast that the annual growth rate for expenditure on new convergent mobile prepaid/postpaid solutions will average 30% per annum to 2011. Expenditure is forecast to grow from $299m in 2006 to just over $1.1bn by 2011 as operators strive for competitive advantage and improved operational efficiency. The largest expenditure over the 2006 to 2011 period is forecast to be in Europe due to the complex legacy charging environments installed in most established operators. [Read more…]