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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…]

Narus VP of Marketing Steve Bannerman Speaks in a Phelon Group Webinar: Harnessing the Power of Voices to Conquer the Market

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Steve Bannerman, vice president of marketing for Narus, a carrier-class IP platform provider for the largest, most profitable networks in the world, will discuss his experience using The Phelon Group’s Voice to MarketSM methodology in a Webinar to take place on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. [Read more…]

Plantronics Brings a Sense of Style to PC Headsets with New .Audio Family

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Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) today announced its new family of .Audio(TM) PC headsets developed for a wide range of uses, including gaming, podcasts, Internet telephony, and multimedia. The .Audio 340, .Audio 510 and .Audio 550 stereo headsets headline the new family of 13 products that all boast great sound quality, as well as new contemporary designs that reinforce Plantronics’ commitment to style (like the Plantronics H51) .

“Podcasters need headsets to deliver top-notch audio response, clarity and volume range, and the new Plantronics headsets certainly fit the bill,” said podcaster Joe Carpenter, also known as the “Guy” from his podcast A Guy, a Girl and a Bottle. “Perhaps the biggest surprise with these headsets was the overall comfort and fit. I typically wear a headset for several hours a day while editing our podcast and am used to headsets that squish, pinch and pull. Not the case here. These new headsets will help me comfortably produce my podcast week after week.” [Read more…]

Azure Solutions Opens Revenue Assurance Service Bureau for Latin and North American Markets

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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 center to meet increased customer demand from a growing roster of telecommunications operators in both the Latin American and North America markets. [Read more…]

ACE*COMM Announces Two New Contracts for Its Advanced OSS Solutions – Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) and B Digital

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today announced it has signed two contracts, one with Cameroon Telecommunications, the other with B Digital in Australia, to provide elements of its advanced OSS suite.  [Read more…]

Infogix Executives to Speak at Telestrategies Spring Revenue Assurance & Analytics Conference; Revenue Management Professionals to Share Strategies and Best Practices for Mitigating Information Risk

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Infogix(TM), Inc., a leading provider of Automated Information Control solutions, today announced that Ramon Nayar, Vice President and Unit Leader of Professional Services for Infogix, will lead a workshop session at the Telestrategies Revenue Assurance & Analytics Conference taking place March 8-10, at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. [Read more…]

ACE*COMM Introduces Network Business Intelligence Capabilities for Enterprise Telecom Systems

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today introduced the ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) suite for enterprise telecommunications environments at the VoiceCon Spring 2006, March 6-9, a leading industry forum for business IP telephony. [Read more…]

Veramark Announces General Availability of eCAS(R) 4.0; Adds Online Directory to Every Desktop

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) today announced the general availability of Release 4.0 of eCAS(R), its industry-leading, totally web-based call accounting system. Since its debut in 2002, the eCAS Call Accounting system has enabled thousands of small to medium-sized businesses to gain control of their telecom spend, optimize their communication networks, increase user accountability, improve employee productivity, and–since the recent introduction of Online Directory for eCAS–provide corporate contact information/white pages on every desktop in the user’s network.  [Read more…]

OSS Observer puts Telcordia #1 in Fulfillment, Inventory, Order Management; Telcordia Demonstrates Unparalleled Capabilities in the Service Fulfillment and Assurance Sector According To OSS Observer

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Telcordia is the clear market leader in Inventory, Network Resource Management and Service Fulfillment according to a newly released report from OSS Observer, one of the leading market research firms analyzing the telecom software market. The results of this report continue to demonstrate Telcordia’s unique industry-leading position as the dominant global OSS market vendor with clear leadership positions in the Service Assurance and Fulfillment market segments.  [Read more…]