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Vibrant Solutions to Discuss Ways to Improve Carrier Profitability at Upcoming Conference – Susan McNeice to Speak at CCMI Event

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With the emergence of the triple play and fixed-wireline convergence, telecommunications carriers have an exciting opportunity to reduce churn and improve their margins. But to do so effectively, they will need to employ business intelligence solutions to gain insight into what combination of products are most profitable for their targeted customer base.

Driving profitability from every product offering and customer will be the focus of an upcoming speaking engagement featuring Susan McNeice, Vibrant Solutions’ director of marketing. McNeice who has an extensive background in telecom operations, including, billing, IT and program management has published several articles on telecom operations, including revenue assurance, business intelligence, carrier profitability, IT project management and corporate governance. [Read more…]

Corporate Phone Bills Now One-Third Cellular, Says Insight Research

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Spending by businesses on wireless telecommunications services accounted for nearly one-third the corporate bill for telecommunication services in 2005, says a new market research report from Insight Research. By the close of 2005, total US business spending on telecommunications services reached just over $132 billion, and by 2010 business spending is forecasted to grow to nearly $150 billion, according to the new research study. [Read more…]

BEA Systems Partners with IP Unity for SIP-Based Group Communications Services for Carriers

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BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS – News), a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, today announced it has expanded its partnership with IP Unity, a leader in carrier-grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications. The two companies have integrated IP Unity’s Mereon(TM) 6000 Media Server and media rich applications with BEA WebLogic SIP Server(TM), the industry’s first converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server. The resulting joint solution will be designed to be a SIP- centric service delivery platform for media rich services such as Dynamic Group Communications. [Read more…]

Martin Group’s Software Organization Partners with Western Datapro

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Martin Group, the nationwide leader of Software, Business Services, and Telecom Engineering for communications providers, today announced a partnership between it’s software organization and Western Datapro. Western Datapro will offer OMNIAâ„¢ and OASIS, Martin Group’s BSS and OSS software solutions in an ASP environment to communications providers whose Return On Investment (ROI) analysis doesn’t justify an in-house solution. [Read more…]

VocalTec Presents Expanded NGN Solution Suite at Spring VON Conference & Expo; Essentra(TM) Trunking, Peering, Access Gateway, and Service Delivery Products Enable Flexible Deployment of Next-Generation Networks

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VocalTec Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq:VOCL),a leading global provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced today that its expanded suite of interoperable solutions will be highlighted at the Spring 2006 VON Conference & Expo in San Jose. Comprised of trunking, peering, access gateway, and service delivery solutions, the suite of best-of-breed network connectivity solutions enables the flexible deployment of next-generation networks (NGNs). [Read more…]

TeleManagement Forum Creates One-Stop Shop on Operational Innovation at TelecomNEXT Pavilion

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The TeleManagement Forum, the 500 member-company industry association dedicated to Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS), will be holding ongoing educational sessions and hosting five exhibitors at their pavilion in Booth 1727 on the TelecomNEXT exhibit floor. The TM Forum will highlight how operational innovation can be used as a key competitive differentiator in the converging market environment of today. [Read more…]

Bezeq International Deploys Integrated VoIP Solution From Veraz and SigValue

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Veraz Networks, Inc. and SigValue Technologies Ltd. today announced the deployment of a fully-integrated, end-to-end, VoIP network solution at Bezeq International. Bezeq International replaced its legacy TDM environment with the joint solution in an effort to migrate to an open IMS-based architecture (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and is now delivering enhanced telephony applications and services to its large base of pre-paid residential and calling card subscribers. [Read more…]

InfoVista Enhances Network Performance Tools for Service Providers

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InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Euronext IFV – FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software company, announced today the availability of VistaInsight(TM) for Networks for Service Providers, version 2.0 (VIN for Service Providers 2.0), a next-generation performance management solution that enables service providers to effectively meet and exceed performance and service requirements for today’s advanced communications technologies including Metro Ethernet. The key enhancements to VIN for Service Providers 2.0 include out-of-box functionality to quickly and cost-effectively deliver new IP VPN and Metro Ethernet services and enhanced customer-reporting functionalities to enable tiered service offerings. [Read more…]

TTI Telecom to Provide MetroPCS Its Service Assurance Solution

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TTI Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (‘TTI Telecom’), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, today announced that MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (‘MetroPCS’), a rapidly growing provider of wireless communications services, will standardize its 3G network on TTI Telecom’s Service Assurance solution. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. [Read more…]

Portal Appoints Bruce Grainger as Vice President of Sales for the Americas

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Portal Software, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PRSF), the premier global provider of billing and Revenue Management solutions for telecommunications and media markets, announced today it has appointed Bruce Grainger as vice president of sales for the Americas. Grainger has headed Portal’s sales activities in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) since 2001 and will now also assume responsibility for sales in the United States and Canada. [Read more…]

Telecom Argentina Selects Portal Software to Bring Voice, Data, and Next Generation Services to Market; Portal Successfully Demonstrates Its Capabilities in One-Tenth the Time of the Competition

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Portal Software, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PRSF), the premier global provider of billing and Revenue Management solutions for telecommunications and media markets, announced today that Telecom Argentina has selected Portal 7 to power creative pricing and promotion plans and fully convergent services for its customers. Initially, Telecom Argentina will deploy Portal 7 to provide rating for high-speed data and VoIP service offerings to its broadband customers. [Read more…]

RCN Renews Billing and Customer Care Contract with Convergys; Convergys Solution Supports RCN’s More Than 880,000 Customer Connections

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today that RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:RCNI), a leading provider of cable TV, telephone, and Internet services, has renewed its billing and customer care agreement with Convergys for five years. [Read more…]

LEAD IP Announces Carrier Grade SoftSwitch

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LEAD IP Systems, an innovative developer and supplier of full turn-key IP-Telephony & data security access systems, has introduced LEAD TelcoSuite1500(TM) — a high-capacity SIP SoftSwitch which is the latest member of the LEAD Access System for Telephony carriers, ISPs and telecom operators. [Read more…]

Portal Software’s Dr. Graham Carey to Present at MMS Congress 2006

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Dr. Graham Carey, director of product marketing, Portal Software, Inc., (Pink Sheets:PRSF) is a featured presenter at the MMS Congress 2006. His presentation, titled “Examining the Billing Requirements Needed to Support MMS,” will evaluate the impact of MMS on the billing system; discuss the specific challenges of billing for MMS; and detail ways to evolve the billing infrastructure in order to support complex charging models for MMS. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions and Teradata Partner to Offer Revenue Assurance and Enterprise Data Warehouse Solutions

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Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced a global partnering agreement with global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) leader, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation. This agreement combines the Teradata® Warehouse with Azure’s Certo 2.0(TM) revenue-assurance software to help telecommunications firms reduce revenue leakage and leverage the data that is collected during the revenue assurance process. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions Opens North American Revenue Assurance Service Bureau

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Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced it will offer complete revenue-assurance, fraud and interconnect capabilities through a new world-class service and data bureau established in Colorado. Azure’s new service bureau complements the company’s robust European centre to meet increased customer demand from a growing roster of North American telecommunications operators. [Read more…]

New Plantronics Bluetooth Headsets Embody Sound Innovation – Plantronics Voyager 510 Bluetooth Headset Receives ‘Innovation’ Award

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Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) today announced two new Bluetooth(R) headsets, the Plantronics Discovery(TM) 645 and Plantronics Voyager 510 with WindSmart(R), that incorporate new technologies for excellent audio clarity during conversations. The Voyager 510 is the first Bluetooth headset on the market to include both a noise-canceling microphone and wind-reduction technology for brilliant sound in windy environments. The Discovery 645 includes a digital signal processing (DSP) chip to actively reduce background noise when talking. [Read more…]