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HickoryTech to Provide Digital TV to City of Janesville Minnesota

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HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO – News) announced that it has added Digital TV to the list of communications products and services available to the residents of Janesville, Minnesota.

The Janesville, Minnesota City Council overwhelmingly approved a cable television franchise agreement on Sept. 25, 2006 and Digital TV services will be available to the entire community beginning in the spring of 2007. Residents can subscribe to services on a stand-alone basis or as part of a money saving bundle including Digital TV, high-speed DSL, local telephone, and long distance all from one local company on one bill. [Read more…]

Cerillion Technologies Breaks into List of Britain’s Fastest-Growing Unquoted Technology Companies

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Convergent billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, has been named one of Britain’ fastest-growing private technology companies in this year’s Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100: a league table, ranking companies by sales growth over the period 2003-2005. Cerillion, whose sales increased by 42 per cent a year from £6.3 million in 2003 to £12.7 million in 2005, achieved 90th place on the list. [Read more…]

Veramark Signs Deal with Beverage Industry Provider

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) has recently announced the signing of a new three year managed services contract with a large beverage company that approaches $200,000 in value. Veramark’s ASP (Application Service Provider) model allows its customers easy web browser access to the full functionality of the VeraSMART Suite of Applications; without the need to install, host, and maintain a premise-based solution. The client will utilize Veramark’s Call Accounting module primarily for performing departmental bill back of telecom charges. [Read more…]

Mobiltel Deploys Performance Management from Vallent

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Vallentâ„¢ Corporation, a global leader in Service Assurance management, has recently announced that Mobiltel will deploy their Performance Management solution to help manage and deliver quality multimedia and traditional services over their GSM and UMTS networks.

Mobiltel is part of the mobilkom austria group (mag), the wireless segment of Telekom Austria . Together, the members of mag serve 9.5 million customers in Austria , Bulgaria , Croatia , Slovenia and Liechtenstein . The group’s cooperative spirit and transfer of intelligence allows them to offer their customers stronger, more innovative solutions. [Read more…]

TEOCO Communications and Entertainment Summit Was Success

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TEOCO Corporation, a leading provider of cost and revenue management solutions to the communications and entertainment industries, recently held its Communications & Entertainment Summit on September 19-20, 2006 at the Tower Club in Vienna, VA. This year’s event marks TEOCO’s seventh year hosting an invitation-only event to provide learning and networking opportunities for telecom cost management professionals. [Read more…]

Formula Telecom Solutions Re-brands as FTS

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Formula Telecoms Solutions (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Business Control, billing & CRM for communication and content providers, has announced that it has changed its name to FTS. After years of innovation in the industry, FTS has undergone a wide re-branding effort to more accurately reflect its visionary position.

As well as the name change, FTS has created a fresh, new visual identity and a new website which better reflect the sophistication and innovation of FTS’ solutions. The new website will explain to Service Providers about FTS’ success and experience in delivering complex solutions, such as bundled services delivered over single or multiple network technologies and prepaid/postpaid convergence. [Read more…]

Golden Telecom Signs OSS Deal with Netcracker

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NetCracker Technology has announced that the company has been selected by Golden Telecom, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLDN) to help streamline the operator’s back office operations and service provisioning processes. The agreement makes NetCracker a part of Golden Telecom’s project aimed at building a single homogeneous network information system. Golden Telecom is a leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in major population centers throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS.) [Read more…]

Bharti Telesoft Deploys Missed Call Application At Mobilecom Jordan

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Bharti Telesoft, the leading global supplier of core Value Added Services (VAS) platforms and Business Support Systems for wireless and wireline carriers, has successfully deployed its Missed Call Alert (MCA) platform, a system that captures every call attempt and automatically transmits missed call notifications over SMS to users. MobileCom is Jordan’s second GSM operator and a pioneer of launching innovative VAS for its 1.2 million strong subscriber base. The MCA solution, branded CLI+ (Caller Location Identification) by MobileCom Jordan, was successfully implemented within a tight time-frame, meeting all budget and functionality objectives, allowing MobileCom to launch the service commercially on Tuesday 19th September. [Read more…]

ACE-COMM To Speak at Key Telecom OSS Industry Events

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, today announced that it will be making presentations at the following industry events in Europe, including the Business in Intelligence in Telecom event in Amsterdam, the IIR Telecoms Market Forecasting in Lisbon, and the Mobile Youth 2006 Summit being held in London. [Read more…]

Syndesis CTO to Present at Telecom IQ Next Generation OSS Integration Summit

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Syndesis, as a recognized telecom OSS industry leader, has been enlisted by Telecom IQ, a division of IQPC, to help communications service providers (CSPs) transform their OSS systems and migrate to IP-based services while leveraging their legacy assets in a lean operator environment. In order to harness the power of true converged communications, CSPs must ensure real-time management of network resources with an OSS that is more agile and more flexible than ever before. Conference attendees will hear expert insight on demands placed on the OSS with the rollout of next generation services and learn how to take service delivery to the next level. [Read more…]

COMCOR Russia Chooses Comptel Convergent Network Inventory Solution

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Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that Moscow Telecommunications Corporation (COMCOR) has selected Comptel’s network inventory solution. COMCOR, one of the largest competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in Russia, will be using Comptel Incatel NIMS initially to handle outside plant, inside plant and logical resources in its network. In a later phase, COMCOR will deploy Comptel’s inventory as part of the Comptel Fulfilment solution, to automate provisioning of its network and services. [Read more…]

Cable and Wireless Implements MetaSolv for IP and Next Generation OSS Transformation

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MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in comprehensive operations support system (OSS) solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that Cable & Wireless, one of the world’s leading international communications companies, has selected MetaSolv for its IP and next-generation OSS transformation. The multi-million dollar agreement provides Cable & Wireless with an integrated next-generation platform for activation, provisioning and configuration management across all service domains. [Read more…]

Dialog Telekom Chooses Intec Convergent Mediation

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Intec, a leading BSS OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, announced today that Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest GSM mobile phone network and a leading broadband and internet service provider, has selected Intec’s convergent multi-service mediation solution. The contract for Intec Convergent Mediation will help Dialog to accelerate market penetration through faster introduction of next-generation services. [Read more…]

Highdeal Solves Billing Challenge for Wireless Matrix

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of Pricing, Rating and Charging solutions, has announced that leading wireless data provider, Wireless Matrix, has chosen Highdeal Transactive for its billing and partner settlement platform.

According to Maria Izurieta, CFO of Wireless Matrix, “It became apparent early in the selection process that Highdeal was unique in its ability to accommodate our business requirements through simple configuration. We wanted to avoid any custom coding that, in the long run, would have meant limited flexibility. Transactive provides our business with both an operational solution and a real front-office enabler.”

Wireless Matrix provides real-time telematics and mobile resource management applications such as fleet tracking and remote inventory. These services, which leverage both terrestrial and satellite-based communications networks, depend on a large number of remote devices out in the field generating extraordinarily large transaction volumes. This presents a challenge for traditional telecom billing systems. [Read more…]

MoviStar Puerto Rico Selects Comptel Mediation for CDMA Mobile Network

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Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that MoviStar Puerto Rico, a mobile operator in which Telefónica Móviles has an equity participation, has selected Comptel EventLink(r) mediation solution for its CDMA network. Comptel EventLink(r) will collect and process the usage information required by MoviStar to bill for its voice, SMS, and advanced data services. [Read more…]

Comverse Converged Billing Combines Kenan Business Solutions with Real-Time Billing

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Comverse has announced the availability of the Comverse Converged Billing Solution, This new product enables real-time customer management, which allows service providers and e-businesses worldwide to increase market agility and improve their operational efficiency.

This new customer care, ordering and billing solution is part of an overall portfolio – Comverse Converged Billing Suite – that includes optional solutions for point-of-sale (POS), self-care, electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP), voucher management, mediation, and content partner management. [Read more…]

Axiom Systems and AOL France to Co-Present at Next Gen OSS Integration Summit

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Axiom Systems, a leader in Service Fulfillment software for Communication Service Providers, and AOL France, part of Time Warner Inc., one of the largest global media and entertainment companies, have announced a joint case study presentation at IQPC’s Next Gen OSS Integration Summit in Boston, MA at 9.00am on Wednesday, September 27th 2006.

Like many of the leading Service Providers around the world, AOL France has recognized the need to rapidly create and deploy new services that seamlessly merge content and services to satisfy growing demand for “multi-play” solutions. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks Advances Revenue Assurance Standardization through TMF Guidebook

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cVidya Networks, a leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, has announced their contribution to the Revenue Assurance Guidebook, recently published by the TeleManagement Forum (TMF). Backed by major telecom operators, the guidebook aims to provide a standard for Revenue Assurance by creating a common language as well as a consensus on strategy and best practices. In parallel to its contribution to the standards included in the TMF Guidebook, cVidya Networks has incorporated these concepts in its MoneyMap® product and methodology as well. [Read more…]

Berg Insight Says Mobile Location-Based Services Revenues to Reach 622 Million in Europe

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Revenues from mobile location-based services (LBS) in the European market will grow by 34 percent annually to reach about $622 million in 2010, according to a new report from the research firm Berg Insight. Johan Fagerberg, senior analyst at Berg Insight, said that the market is picking up speed through successful launches of mobile personal navigation services and location based billing plans in several European countries.

“Nokia’s recent acquisition of Gate5 is an evident example of the importance mobile industry players attach to navigation”, said Johan. “We expect GPS-enabled handsets with preinstalled navigation software to become available from the leading brands on the European market very soon.” Berg Insight forecasts that navigation will account for 48 percent of mobile LBS revenues in 2010. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Defines Revenue Operations Center at Risk Management and Internal Audit in Telecoms 2006

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Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, will be exhibiting and speaking at the 9th Annual Risk Management and Internal Audit in Telecoms 2006 conference, which takes place at the Cafe Royal, London, UK between 18 and 19 September 2006.

Karthikeyan Ramnath, Product Manager, Subex Azure, will be presenting a session entitled “Reducing the Day Sales Outstanding (DSO) using the Revenue Operations Center (ROC)” on Tuesday 19 September 2006. Karthikeyan will be looking at the benefits of collaboration between fraud and risk management; how the ROC is defined; aligning departmental strategies with corporate strategy, and how the ROC can enable operators to reduce DSO and more efficiently prioritise cases. [Read more…]