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ACE*COMM Recognized for Best Customer Success by Billing World

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, announced today that it has received the ‘Best Customer Success’ award from TeleStrategies, the publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine, at the Sixth Annual Excellence Awards reception on May 3 at the Billing & OSS World 2006 Conference in Miami. Published 12 times per year, Billing World & OSS Today is the most widely read magazine by the back-office software decision makers in the telecommunications industry.

“Billing World & OSS Today magazine is proud to present the 2006 Excellence Awards to the companies who are driving innovation and positive ROI in the billing and OSS/BSS industries,” said Jill Morgan, publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine. “The Best Customer Success category is self explanatory, but it should be noted that it was the single most competitive category in this year’s competition. This year’s winner – ACE*COMM – is a company we have seen go through many changes and challenges over the years in the industry. It is a company that has re-invented itself and thrived, but without ever abandoning its core expertise. What impressed us the most about ACE*COMM was the innovative way in which it has taken technology that is traditionally buried behind the scenes and given it relevance on the front lines.”

The Best Customer Success award recognizes outstanding industry achievement for real-life benefits achieved as part of a customer deployment. ACE*COMM’s Market Maker(TM) product – part of the ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) suite – was recognized for dramatically improving a Tier 1 cable operator’s ability to position its marketing resources to achieve higher quality upsell opportunities and close new customers. At the same time the operator was able to develop the information required to match marketing efforts with available network capacity. [Read more…]

Maroc Telecom Selects Atos Origin and Comptel for Automated Broadband Delivery

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Atos Origin, an international IT service provider and Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory announced today that they had been selected by Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s leading telecoms operator to automate DSL services across Morocco. Maroc Telecom provides fixed, broadband internet and mobile services across all regions in Morocco.

The Comptel® Fulfilment solution will be integrated into Maroc Telecom’s OSS by Atos Origin to automate the activation of DSL services to Maroc Telecom’s customers. This will meet the rapid growth in demand for broadband in Morocco. [Read more…]

Yankee Group and ACE*COMM to Present on Data Integrity Management at TeleManagement World Nice 2006 Conference

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC) today announced that it will be presenting with Yankee Group at TeleManagement World Nice 2006, Wednesday, May 17th, in Nice, France. TeleManagement World brings together noted business and technical leaders from both service providers and their suppliers to discuss and debate the issues, challenges and solutions facing the management of next generation networks and services. [Read more…]

Alcatel Selects Syndesis OSS for Triple Play and Next-Generation Services

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Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) announced today the signing of a global partnership agreement enabling Alcatel to offer Syndesis’ carrier-grade suite as part of its Operation Support Systems (OSS) portfolio. Combined with Alcatel integration services, service providers will be able to rapidly launch revenue generating next-generation services such as Triple/Quad Play, IPTV and VoIP. The integrated offering focuses on the end-to-end service delivery across access, aggregation and core, including subscriber-centric activation and discovery, in multi-vendor networks.

“This partnership with Alcatel is based on a shared strategy, joint vision and proven customer success,” added John Lochow, President and CEO of Syndesis. “Thanks to our complementary competencies, service providers are leveraging a rapidly growing subscriber base and profiting like never before from their network investments. Subscriber-centric activation and first-time-right service delivery, built on product-based software solutions, are paramount to delivering a truly differentiated and unified communications experience. We are thrilled that our partnership with Alcatel enables service providers globally to benefit from these solutions and acknowledge their vote of confidence in our proven, industry-leading service delivery suite.”

Alcatel has embedded Syndesis’ award-winning IP Triple Play service delivery management solutions into its industry-leading suite of next generation network offerings. The solution is proven to dramatically reduce the time and costs associated with the installation of IP networks and the delivery of feature-rich IP-based video, voice and data services. [Read more…]

Telenet Deploys MetaSolv for Digital TV Activation

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MetaSolv Software, Inc., a leader in comprehensive operations support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that Telenet has successfully deployed MetaSolv’s convergent service activation platform for Digital TV services. Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium – including cable television, high speed internet and telephony services – with over 1.8 million subscribers.

Telenet’s converged services require a converged cross-domain activation platform – a single order of complex services can trigger activation and configuration requirements in multiple domains, including POTS, VoIP, Digital TV, and DSL-Broadband, all of which are supported by MetaSolv’s activation solution. [Read more…]

VoluBill launches Track em Data Intelligence solution for Next Generation and 3G services

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VoluBill, a provider of flexible data charging solutions to telecoms operators, today formally launched its “Track em” product, a sophisticated, real time, network monitoring solution that provides operators with never before available detail on customer activity on their network.

“Imagine being able to identify who the top 5000 users of Skype are on your network.” said John Aalbers, CEO at VoluBill, “Track em makes this option possible for operators. Our cutting edge solution provides the innovation to enable operators to target specific users with creative marketing campaigns or service bundles and help fight against diminishing revenues.” added Aalbers.

The information collected by VoluBill’s solution can help operators detect and act upon network usage that potentially undermines their overall profitability. This is achieved by giving operators the power to restrict, block or charge users for specific traffic at a premium rate or on a subscription basis as well as individually market services in ways that specifically reflect a customer’s unique usage pattern. [Read more…]

AOL Selects AXIOSS from Axiom Systems For Their Provision of Broadband and IP Services in France

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Axiom Systems today announced that, with their partners Inoven and Accenture, the AXIOSS platform has been chosen to enable the design, creation and delivery of all new IP and broadband services for AOL in France. AOL, assisted by Inoven for the Program Management and Accenture, will use AXIOSS as a single standardized OSS platform to support their current applications and shorten the time between new service conception and delivery to the market. [Read more…]

Greece Carrier Lannet Chooses Intec Convergent Billing

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Intec, a supplier of BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, announced today that Lannet, a major alternate provider offering fixed telephony and internet ADSL services to retail and corporate customers in Greece, has gone live with Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView). The news follows the recent announcement of a win for Intec Convergent Billing with a major carrier in the Asia Pacific region.

“We needed to replace an out-dated, unsupported retail billing system if we were to have the capability to quickly react to the market,” said Fotis Tsitsirigos, IT Manager Lannet. “The major advantage of Intec Convergent Billing is that it is a robust, capable platform that allows us to move from traditional telephony models and freely develop whatever we imagine or need to best respond, lead and compete. Following an impressive implementation with zero delays or problems, we are now cost-effective and independent with no necessity for outsourcing or external consultancy when responding to commercial challenges. This is critical for a relatively small company with limited resources.”

Lannet operates in a crowded, deregulated market of ten alternate providers and the national fixed telephony company, OTE. With a fast-growing customer base, the company is successfully pursuing a new market share expansion plan of new products and services backed up by loyalty programmes, network development, investment, acquisition and alliances. The Lannet vision is to be the leading challenger in fixed telephony and broadband services. [Read more…]

HP Deepens New Generation OSS Commitment with Support for OSS/J and TMF Standards

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HP today announced its participation in a number of industry initiatives designed to help telecom companies manage voice and data networks more efficiently through New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) technologies. The HP Integrated Service Management (ISM) platform is HP’s Operational Support System (OSS) offering. It uses a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate operations and business support systems to help carriers and operators manage networks and services.

HP is enhancing HP ISM with functionality from the OSS through Javaâ„¢ initiative (OSS/J). This initiative focuses on the adoption of standards-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and design guidelines for the development of component-based OSS systems. OSS/J technologies provide the foundation for unifying legacy systems and new applications quickly and at low cost. [Read more…]

Telarix Announces New Corporate Strategy

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Telarix, Inc., a provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced a new corporate strategy designed to combine its award winning interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions with a service-focused offering to provide the industry’s most comprehensive solution — uniquely tailored to address service providers’ most critical business issues.

As part of the new strategy, Telarix will offer its interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions over a Flexible Delivery Platform, which includes a new hosted offering called iXTools ASP(TM). Now carriers can choose either an outsourced, hosted or traditional software license solution to improve revenue assurance, optimize routing, manage complex agreements and facilitate financial traffic management.

“Offering a solution such as this in both a software-based and a services-based model helps tailor the end product to meet a carrier’s exact needs,” commented Paul Hughes, Vice President of Communications Software Strategies with the Yankee Group. “Telarix’s Flexible Delivery Platform strategy demonstrates the company’s commitment to meeting global communications carriers’ specific OSS/BSS strategies, each of which may differ based on past investment history and technology acquisition and usage preferences, and bolsters the company’s position in the global OSS/BSS space.”

This unprecedented offering provides traditional global incumbents, emerging service providers, and dominant regional players of fixed, mobile and VoIP services a comprehensive solution tailored to their specific business environment and requirements. Three of the world’s five largest telecom providers already depend on iXTools to optimize their interconnect business. [Read more…]

cVidya Adds Rating and Billing Verification to MoneyMap

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cVidya Networks, a global leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, announced today the addition of a new module – rating & billing verification – to the latest release of its flagship revenue assurance product, MoneyMap®/Suite.

“Including the rating & billing verification capabilities in the MoneyMap®/Suite will be beneficial for our existing customers and will open up more business opportunities for cVidya Networks. It allows us to create wider offerings and to stabilize the position of MoneyMap® as the leading complete revenue assurance solution suite in the market. We have successfully installed this module for existing customers and the feedback is very positive,” said Alon Aginsky, CEO of cVidya Networks.

With this new module, the MoneyMap®/Suite now provides a full revenue assurance integrated operations platform covering all areas of revenue assurance – usage, configuration, and now rating & billing verification. [Read more…]

Appium and Intec Launch New Charging & Billing Capability

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Appium, a provider of next-generation telecommunications applications platforms, and Intec, a leading supplier of charging & billing systems, today announced the launch of a new enhanced pre-paid billing solution. The Intec Charging & Billing solution now works together with the Appium platform and allows operators to cost-effectively migrate their services to all-IP networks. The two companies are partnering to bring a first in complete, configurable real-time platforms between multiple network technologies and back-office systems. The charging & billing solution partnership is being announced exclusively at TeleManagement World in Nice, France. [Read more…]

TTI Telecom Introduces Netrac ServiceImpact

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TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (“TTI Telecom”), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, announced today the launch of Netrac ServiceImpact, a business-oriented application that uses resource alarms to assess the impact of network failures on services and improves customer service. Netrac ServiceImpact enhances TTI Telecom’s Service Assurance Solution by empowering telecommunications service providers to focus on high impact problems and high level customers in real-time, facilitating improved service levels and increased revenues. TTI Telecom will showcase Netrac ServiceImpact at booth #53 at TeleManagement World 2006, May 15-18 in Nice, France. [Read more…]

GN Combines Industry-Leading Jabra and GN Netcom Brands to Create the World’s Largest Headset Company

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GN, parent company of GN Mobile and GN Netcom, announced they are combining their two headset businesses to create the world’s largest manufacturer of headsets for hands-free communication such as the popular GN 9350, the GN 9330, and the GN 9330 USB. The new business will employ about 1,800 people and expects revenues for 2006 of approx. DKK 2.7bn (US$450 million) in the former GN Mobile and at least DKK 1.8bn (US$300 million) in the former GN Netcom.

“Some years ago, we set out our vision for the future; one in which everyone will be using wireless headsets whether they’re in the office, at home or on the move,” said Hans Henrik Lund, president of the new headset business. “Today’s announcement is part of the changes we are implementing in order to make our vision a reality.”

As the leading innovators in the global headset industry, GN Netcom and GN Mobile have developed and launched some of the most successful products in the history of the wireless headset market, including the widely popular Jabra mobile headsets and GN Netcom office headset solutions. Both brands are distributed through 90,000 sales channels worldwide, including carriers and system integrators as well as leading consumer electronics chains and mobile phone specialists. Joining forces will enable the new company to sustain high growth and innovation leadership. [Read more…]

Veramark Announces First Quarter Results

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006. For the three months ended March 31 Veramark reported sales of $2,444,000 which compared with sales of $2,626,000 for the first quarter of 2005. Veramark reported a net loss of $57,000, or $0.01 per share, a slight improvement from a net loss of $85,000, also $0.01 per share, reported for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005.

Veramark’s President and Chief Executive Officer, David G. Mazzella, commenting on the results stated,

“Though first quarter results did not meet our expectations, revenues generated from VeraSMART, our enterprise level product increased 20% in the first quarter of 2006 versus the prior year. Secondly, orders booked for the first quarter were 14% higher than for the same quarter of 2005. The first quarter has historically been Veramark’s weakest quarter in terms of orders booked.”

Mr. Mazzella stated further, “During the first quarter we recruited additional marketing and sales personnel. We added six new sales people, including a new Director of Business Development and Marketing and a new Director of International Business Development, both of whom previously were employed by major competitors. Both bring valuable experience and market expertise to Veramark.” [Read more…]

HickoryTech Approved to Provide Digital TV to Faribault

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HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO – News) received approval from the City of Faribault, Minn. for a cable franchise to provide competitive cable programming to the residents of Faribault. The company will immediately launch its Digital TV service to Faribault residents. The roll out across the city will occur in phases, with the last phase scheduled for completion in mid-July 2006.

The company also announced the scheduled June 1 opening of HickoryTech’s new Faribault retail office at 25 N.W. Fourth Street. This office will provide local customer service, demonstrate HickoryTech products, and serve as a base of operations for the company’s local employees. A “Grand Opening” event will be scheduled later in June to highlight the company’s presence and commitment to the community. [Read more…]

Exstream Software Awarded Most Promising Company Award At Telestrategies Billing & OSS World 2006

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Exstream Software, Inc. announced that it received the ‘Most Promising Company’ award at the sixth annual Billing and OSS World Excellence Awards ceremony held during the Billing & OSS World 2006 conference in Miami, May 3-5. Telecommunications professionals from all over the globe attend this conference to discuss the latest trends and future challenges of the industry.

“There is a clear need in our industry for enterprise solutions that streamline the document management process as well as deliver the capability to more proactively market to customers with personalized statements and invoices,” said Jill Morgan, publisher and editorial director for Billing World and OSS Today. “We continue to be impressed with the way Exstream is taking the telecom industry by storm. In the last few months alone, Exstream has gained huge traction with the largest of the wireless service providers, signing many significant deals. They certainly deserve the award in this category.”

Billing World and OSS Today magazine issues the ‘Most Promising Company’ award to recognize a company that is extremely well positioned for success in the telecom marketplace in the coming year. Receiving over 100 applications from OSS/BSS vendor companies vying for the six Excellence Awards, winners in each category had to demonstrate clear signs of success and growth. The finalists stood out due to their ability to measure, quantify and articulate the specific improvements they had delivered to their customers. [Read more…]

Comptel Launches Integrated Comptel Fulfilment Solution

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Comptel Corporation, an OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today the launch of the strengthened Comptel® Fulfilment – a suite of pre-integrated inventory and provisioning modules to cover end-to-end service fulfilment functionality from order capture to activation and reconciliation. The Comptel Fulfilment solution will help broadband and cable service providers meet the challenges of the growing demand and increasing competition for the delivery of services such as triple-play (voice, data, and video), by improving the cost, speed and quality of provisioning, to the obvious benefit of their customers. [Read more…]

Syndesis Revolutionizes Service Delivery Management – Launches Syndesis Express

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Syndesis, a worldwide leader in Convergent Service Delivery Management (CSDM) solutions, today unveiled Syndesis® Express™, a new group of fulfillment products to power rapid service definition, integrated service design and activation across connectivity, applications and device, and real-time subscriber self-management. The Syndesis Express fulfillment suite provides an integrated view of the subscriber, making it possible for carriers around the world to rapidly launch and automate fulfillment of new services without the costly upgrade or replacement of existing systems such as inventory.

“As CSPs introduce new mobile and residential broadband services their customers demand easy, rapid service activation. As a result, CSPs are looking for fulfillment solutions that span the application, connectivity and device domains,” said Larry Goldman co-founder and senior analyst at OSS Observer. “More than ever before, they need to link their subscribers with the associated network and services.”

Syndesis Express launches service delivery to new heights so that communications service providers (CSPs) can rapidly define, deploy and fulfill the industry’s most advanced service offerings, including IPTV, Triple/Quad Play, Unified Messaging, video conferencing, and others. In addition, with the ability to support thousands of round-trip subscriber requests per second, CSPs can meet peak demands well into the future and, at the same time, bring true self-service and integrated media impulse buying to the masses. [Read more…]

Ecosystem of OSS Through JavaT OSS/J Referenced Components Growing Rapidly

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An ecosystem of OSS through JavaT Initiative (OSS/J) Referenced Components has grown rapidly, it was announced today. The speed at which OSS/J Referenced Components are proliferating attests to the widespread adoption of OSS/J solutions by leading suppliers of telecommunications software solutions. Referenced Components are software components or products that use or implement parts or entire OSS/J APIs. They make it faster and easier to implement end-to-end solutions supporting the delivery of new products. Many OSS/J Referenced Components are expected to evolve to OSS/J Certified Products.

An advanced implementation of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) New Generation OSS (NGOSS) architectural standard, OSS/J APIs map closely to the TMF’s Enhanced Telecommunications Operations Map (eTOM). The APIs are based on the Core Business Entity (CBE) model, which is aligned with the TMF’s Shared Information Definition (SID), a widely recognized telco data sharing model. OSS/J’s close alignment with TMF – the dominant standards body in the telecommunications OSS area – and OSS/J’s pragmatic approach to implementation – add up to a powerful, implementable OSS standard. [Read more…]