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Convergys Announces Change in Financial Reporting Structure and Conference Call

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today it will implement a new financial reporting structure that will be effective with the filing of its 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2006. Convergys will now report financial results for its three segments: Employee Care, Customer Care, and Information Management Group. [Read more…]

Sergel AB Goes Live on RateIntegration’s PriceMaker Enterprise Pricing Server

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RateIntegration, a provider of pricing and rating solutions to software and service companies in the telecommunications, retail, and financial services markets, today announced that it has completed phase two of the replacement of the core pricing and rating engines in Sergel’s legacy and next generation billing and customer care systems. Sergel, a wholly owned subsidiary of TeliaSonera Group [TLSN.ST], is an application service provider (ASP) serving the telecom, news media, energy, real-estate and government sectors. [Read more…]

Automation of International Dial Code Data Could Improve Profitability of Interconnect Agreements

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As telecommunications competition has become more prevalent worldwide and numerous new mobile networks have entered the market, carriers are faced with a complex web of frequently changing dial code plans that can be difficult to monitor and update. Complicating the issue even more is that many carriers continue to use the same manual methods “such as extensive Excel spreadsheets” to verify costs for completing calls over other networks. [Read more…]

Intec wins contract with Russia’s VimpelCom for Intec Trading and Routing system

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Intec, a leading supplier of BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, will deliver its Intec Trading and Routing Solution to VimpelCom.  The solution enables optimised capacity trading and traffic routing in the highly competitive wholesale voice business. The deal further extends Intec’s relationship with VimpelCom, following announcements in 2005 of a multi-million dollar agreement for core components of Intec’s BSS/OSS technology (Intec Dynamic Charging Platform and Intec Mediation.) VimpelCom is also a long-term user of Intec’s market leading settlement platform, Intec InterconnecT. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions and Verizon Outline Strategies for Proactive Revenue Assurance at TeleStrategies RA Conference

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Mr. Steven Bruny, President of Azure Solutions (www.azuresolutions.com), one of the world’s leading revenue assurance companies, and Kathy Romano, Director of Broadband Billing and Collections at Verizon (www.verizon.com), will outline steps operators can use to build revenue assurance into new service offerings. While common sense tells us that building revenue assurance programs in early is clearly the best practice, it’s not always easy to do. [Read more…]

Telecom Software Vendor Cramer Establishes Presence in Atlanta; Newly Appointed Executives, New Office Space and Growth Initiative Highlight Local Activities

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Cramer, a telecom software vendor, today announced a series of moves that will expand its presence in Atlanta. The company has appointed two Atlanta-based executives, secured new office space in the Georgia Tech Venture Center (GTVC), and launched a growth initiative that will triple the size of the Atlanta office over the next six months.  [Read more…]

VimpelCom Deploys Amdocs Self Service Software For More Than 40 Million of its Russian Subscribers

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“Vimpel- Communications” (“VimpelCom”) (NYSE: VIP – News), a leading provider of telecommunications services in Russia and CIS, and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience TM, announced today that VimpelCom has successfully implemented Amdocs Self Service to support its more than 40 million corporate and individual subscribers in Russia. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions Embarks on Trade Mission to India and Pakistan

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Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, is taking part in a trade mission to India and Pakistan, organised by UK Trade & Investment, between 27 February – 7 March 2005.  The trade mission will involve meeting a series of senior regulatory and telecoms executives in the region, where Azure will highlight the revenue-assurance issues they are facing. [Read more…]

Industry Leaders Unveil Groundbreaking Technologies At VoiceCon Spring 2006

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VoiceCon(R), produced by CMP Media, today released the list of vendors who will be making significant announcements at VoiceCon Spring 2006. VoiceCon Spring, now in its 16th year, is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise voice, IP Telephony and convergence in North America. VoiceCon Spring 2006 (www.voiceconspring.com) will be held March 6-9 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando.  [Read more…]

Teledata Networks’ BroadAccess Goes Pure IP – Enables Providers to Offer IPTV

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Teledata Networks, an established global provider of innovative Access Network solutions that enable smooth migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) and delivery of Triple Play services, announced today its new version of the BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateway, which is optimized for supporting advanced Voice, Data and Video services based on its pure Ethernet architecture.  [Read more…]

PLC Network Solutions to Install Its Broadband Over Power-line Technology in Theatre Complex, Hamilton, Ontario

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Trimax Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary PLC Network Solutions (PLC) (OTC BB: TMXO), a leading provider of Broadband over Power-line (BPL) communication technologies, announced today that it has signed an LOI to install its Broadband over Power-line devices and bundled services in the Westside Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton is located 30 minutes from downtown Toronto.  [Read more…]

Vibrant Solutions Director of Business Intelligence Yves Robinson to Present at MVNO Strategies and Markets USA in San Jose

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Yves Robinson, Director of Business Intelligence, Vibrant Solutions, will discuss how MVNOs can identify and target underserved markets. As director of Business Intelligence for Vibrant Solutions, Yves Robinson is responsible for the company’s analytics engagements, setting technology product direction, consulting to customers on their needs and overseeing research and development for the portfolio.  [Read more…]

Cantv (Compañía Anónima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela) Joins OSS Through Java Initiative (OSS/J) Service Provider Advisory Council

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Cantv (Compañía Anónima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela), a leading Venezuelan telecommunications provider of wireline, wireless, and broadband services, announced today that it has joined the OSS through Javaâ„¢ Initiative to lead the Initiative’s Procurement Guidelines project. This project will consolidate and define OSS/J product specifications for carriers seeking to implement OSS/J-standards based solutions.  [Read more…]

Ensim Announces Major Upgrade of Unify Service Delivery Platform for Hosted IP and Application Services

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Ensim Corporation, the leading supplier of service enablement and automation software for Hosted IP and Application Services, today announced a major upgrade of its service delivery platform, Ensim Unify 3.0. This latest release of Ensim’s comprehensive multi-service delivery platform for Web, VoIP, Messaging and Collaboration services includes a host of new features and platform enhancements to simplify and speed the delivery of converged hosted services.  [Read more…]

Logista Partners With CommPartners to Offer VoIP Solutions to Small, Mid-Size and Large Businesses

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Logista Solutions, a leading national information technology and systems integration services provider, announced today that it is partnering with CommPartners, Inc., an IP-based network operator and telephony services and solutions provider, to expand its Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) suite of products to target the small, medium and enterprise business markets. These new VoIP services will be marketed under the Logista brand name.  [Read more…]

Collaborative Efforts by ATIS and IPDR.org Result in Adoption Of IPDR Protocol in New Trial-Use Standard for Next Gen Accounting Management; ATIS TMOC Standard Utilizes IPDR Protocol

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The Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced an important milestone in its ongoing collaborative efforts to produce “Next Gen” Accounting Management standards and protocols for global use and adoption. [Read more…]

Industria Announces March Launch for Radical New Zignal IPTV Offering; London’s IPTV World Forum Named as Setting for Debut of Groundbreaking Middleware Solution

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London’s Olympia exhibition centre will provide the setting in March for the first public appearance of a radical departure in IPTV middleware, with the launch at this year’s IPTV World Forum of a new service delivery platform from Zignal, a leading provider of IPTV software solutions and devices.  [Read more…]