Axiom Systems, a leader in Service Fulfillment software for Communication Service Providers, has just announced an upcoming free webinar to discuss the issues that Service Providers face when creating new telecom services. The webinar will be hosted by Telestrategies and will be held on Wednesday, October 18th at 11.00am PST. [Read more…]
Telecommunications Leaders to Create IT Reference Architecture for Rapid Product and Service Assembly
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
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
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
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…]
Comptel Extends Global Presence to South Africa by Opening Cape Town Office
Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that it is extending its global operational presence to South Africa in order to meet the growing demand for its software in the region. The Comptel representation based in Cape Town, South Africa, will be headed by Mr. Erwin Blomeyer. This new representation extends Comptel’s global presence to a total of 18 countries, serving over 250 customers in over 80 countries worldwide. [Read more…]
TTI Telecom Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2006 Results
TTI Team Telecom International LTD. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (“TTI Telecomâ€), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, today announced preliminary results for its fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2006. The Company expects to report final third quarter results and hold a conference call during the week of November 13, 2006. [Read more…]
Alcatel and Amdocs Cramer OSS Suite Selected by Telekom Austria
Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), today announced that they have been selected by Telekom Austria to deploy an integrated end-to end fulfillment solution to enable Telekom Austria to launch next generation services quickly. Alcatel will act as the prime integrator of Amdocs’ technology, which is based on the solution developed by Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. The solution will be operational across Austria’s leading provider of telecommunications services later this year. [Read more…]
Vistula Communication Services Acquires Goodman Blue Limited
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (“Vistula”) (OTC Bulletin Board: VSTL) (http://www.vistula.com), a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over IP (“VoIP”) services to major telecommunications carriers and Internet Service Providers, has acquired Goodman Blue Limited (“Goodman Blue”), a UK systems integration and software house.
Goodman Blue provides a software package that allows service providers, of any kind, to deliver real-time, self-service and fully automated, provisioning, rating, billing, service management and reporting of telecom and other services. For Vistula and its customers this software sits on the outside of V-Cube(TM)(1) so that service providers can create hands-off management of their customers’ billable activity. The Goodman Blue solution is called – Order to Cash (“O2C”). [Read more…]
Convergys Updates Third Quarter Guidance
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, has updated its guidance for the third quarter, 2006. Convergys expects net revenues to exceed $700 million and earnings per diluted share of $0.30 or more in this period.
Convergys had previously said it expected earnings per diluted share to be $0.27 to $0.28 for the quarter. Convergys will release its third quarter results on October 25, and will host a conference call the same day at 10:00 AM, EDT, to discuss those results. The call will be carried live (with scheduled repeats) on the Internet. [Read more…]
Highdeal Introduces New Hybrid Payment Solution with Online Balance Management
Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions, has announced the introduction of its new real-time Online Balance Management solution, Highdeal Transactive®.
Building on the award-winning Highdeal pricing and rating solution, the new Online Balance Management solution enables service providers to easily create and differentiate new packages, offering flexible payment options such as hybrid prepaid and postpaid plans and shared group payment plans. It is designed to utilise real-time charging information from any number of concurrent applications or blended services in order to obtain on-demand balance information. It also plays an integral role in protecting subscriber balances from credit risk and overspend. [Read more…]
Subex Azure Signs Fraud Management Contract with Safaricom
Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has announced that it has won a contract to provide its fraud management system to Safaricom Ltd, the Kenyan mobile services provider.
Safaricom is the largest mobile operator in Kenya with a customer base of 4.4 million subscribers. The number of mobile phone subscribers in Kenya has risen by 41 per cent over the last year according to the Communiciations Commission of Kenya. Safaricom wanted a scalable fraud management solution to help it reduce and identify subscriber fraud on its pre-and post-paid services. [Read more…]
Verso to Offer Intec BSS OSS Products and Services in Adriatic Region
Intec Telecom Systems, a global provider of Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) for fixed, wireless, and IP/next generation networks, has signed a partnership agreement with Mrežne tehnologije VERSO d.o.o., Croatia’s leading provider of customised network solutions and services. Under the contract Verso will offer and integrate Intec BSS/OSS products to its customers in the region, including Intec Interconnect, Intec Mediation, and Intec Centralised Error Management (CEMS) solutions. [Read more…]
LHS Generates 1125 Million Invoices Per Hour for Billing and Customer Care
LHS, a leading provider of telecommunications and billing software, has revealed the results of a breakthrough performance test for its fully convergent billing and customer care system, BSCS iX. On an enterprise-class Sun Fire E25K server equipped with 72 UltraSPARC IV processors at 1,5 GHz processor, BSCS iX generated 1.125 million invoices per hour supporting 40 million customers. [Read more…]
Convergys Signs Customer Care and Billing Contract With BT
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, has signed five year contract with BT (NYSE: BT) to expand the use of Infinys, Convergys’ state-of-the-art billing and customer care solution, to support all of BT’s consumer, business, and wholesale customers. BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
“With Infinys as our core rating and billing engine, we can significantly streamline our billing operations, reducing costs, while introducing new services to market faster than we can today,†said Maria Pardee, CIO of BT Retail.
This agreement encompasses the use of Infinys to rate and bill all BT products and services including BT’s 27 million plus PSTN (public switched telephone network) customers. Convergys’ Infinys solution is capable of supporting traditional PSTN services as well as next generation all Internet Protocol (IP) services on the same platform, including services enabled by IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). [Read more…]
PAETEC Named Top Overall CLEC by ATLANTIC-ACM
PAETEC Communications, Inc., has announced it has received two Carrier Excellence Awards from ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based telecommunications research consultancy. PAETEC captured both the 2006 Metro Wholesale PRI Product Award and the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) Best-in-Class Service Partner Award. These awards are for the highest average ratings for PAETEC’s PRI product and the highest overall ratings for service provision, respectively. [Read more…]
Visionael Acquires Defero to Secure Position in OSS IP Service Delivery Market
Visionael Corp., a leading provider of process-oriented inventory, provisioning and activation solutions for IP service delivery, has announced the acquisition of Defero AB, a Swedish operations support system (OSS) solutions provider. The deal strengthens Visionael’s ability to support service providers in the rollout of next-generation services across IP networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. [Read more…]
Veramark Announces Entry into New Markets with Asset Management Solution Sale
Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) today announced receipt of a VeraSMART upgrade for approximately $150,000 from a major freight transportation services company. The customer chose the new VeraSMART Asset Management and the Work Order module to manage their inventory and related work flow processes. [Read more…]
FTS Appoints Alon Raz New Chief Financial Officer
FTS (LSE: FTS), the global provider of Business Control, Billing and CRM solutions for Communications Service Providers, has announced the appointment of Alon Raz as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Raz joins FTS after serving three years as Chief Financial and Operational Officer at Team Computers and Systems Ltd., one of Israel’s largest IT groups. At Team, he led the acquisition of Malam, a deal which propelled Team into becoming Israel’s second largest IT group. [Read more…]
Lucent Enhances Belize Telecom Rating and Charging Services
Belize Telecommunications Limited will soon be launching a range of new and enhanced services to its prepaid customers by means of Lucent’s SurePay real-time rating and charging engine, which has been commercially deployed in networks worldwide with a base of more than 135 million subscribers. SurePay is a scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution designed to support a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce services. [Read more…]
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