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NEWCON implements Intercarrier- & Wholesale-Billing Solution for Swisscom

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Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecom provider, with 5.8 million mobile and around 1.6 million broadband connections, has searched for a next generation, cost efficient and flexible Intercarrier – & Wholesale- Billing Solution in order to improve its competitive position on the national- and international- Telecom market. NEWCON Ltd. has scoured with it’s over years improved Next Generation Intercarrier- & Wholesale- Billing Solution. The Next Generation Intercarrier- & Wholesale- Billing Solution has been implemented with a target to reduce the total cost of ownership for billing service by more than 20%. Thanks to NEWCON´s long-time experience as service integrator focused mainly on Telco Industry, heavily investing in from Telco’s required “Next Generation” Services accordingly to the ongoing and rapid changes in that industry. With this solution NEWCON supports Swisscom to strengthen the positioning of Swisscom to be one of the most competitive Telco’s in the European Market. [Read more…]

Vectra Chooses Comarch BSS

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Polish multi-play operator, Vectra has recently chosen Comarch BSS for its core billing, customer management and self-service platform as well as for field force automation software. [Read more…]

Australia’s NBN Co Selects Comptel for Catalog-Driven Service Fulfillment for IP Services

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Comptel Corporation has been awarded a new, multi-year contract with Australia’s NBN Co to supply Comptel Fulfillment and support the delivery of IP services on the country’s government-funded National Broadband Network. NBN Co will use Comptel’s catalog-driven fulfillment solution, including logical and service inventory and service lifecycle management, to ensure wholesale services are delivered efficiently on the network to retail channels. The project—the single, largest infrastructure investment in Australia’s history—will be conducted in conjunction with Comptel partner Alcatel-Lucent. [Read more…]

Gartner Ranks cVidya as Global Market Leader for Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management Solutions

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cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) the global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced recently that Gartner has ranked cVidya as number 1 for global market share for 2010 in the revenue assurance and fraud management space for telecom operators based on revenue. The release of Gartner’s report “Market Share: Telecom Operations Management Systems (BSS, OSS and SDP), Worldwide, 2009-2010” follows cVidya’s recent wins in Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management and the launch of the Integrated Revenue Intelligence Solutions (IRIS®) suite in 2010. [Read more…]

African mobile market grows while operators suffer from shrinking margins

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Communication has been the driving force behind a lot of Africa’s successes in the past, and the continued development of communication throughout the continent will be vital to the social and economic growth. In 2011 and beyond, operators will be looking to increase the number of subscribers, reduce costs, increase the ARPU and reduce churn. Those requirements are not new, they have been the goal of operators ever since mobile organizations came into being. [Read more…]

Clarity Utilities to implement Singapore’s Intelligent Energy System (IES) Pilot Project

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Clarity, the award-winning provider of unified solutions designed to simplify operations across Utilities and Telecoms, today announced that, alongside partner ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd, it has been accepted by Accenture to implement Phase 1 of the Intelligent Energy System (IES) pilot project spearheaded by Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA). [Read more…]

OXYCOM Chooses Comarch

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OXYCOM, the start-up company has decided to build a BSS Platform based on Comarch’s products. According to the agreement, the following modules will be implemented: Comarch Convergent Billing, Comarch Service Activation, Comarch Billing Mediation and Comarch ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). [Read more…]

Telecom Cook Islands selects XINTEC’s FMSlite

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Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) has selected XINTEC’s FMSliteTM Roaming Fraud Detector Module, a transaction-based fraud management system (FMS) that analyzes both fixed and mobile switch call records to detect fraudulent activity. Using SaaS/Cloud Computing XINTEC will host, manage and provide 24×7 access to the FMSliteTM software from a secure data centre in Luxembourg. SaaS is a low-cost hosted alternative for businesses to use software as needed (on-demand) rather than buying licenses and applications, gaining access to its functions remotely via the web. [Read more…]

Subex wins Multi-Million Dollar deal from Middle East operator for Revenue Operations Centre

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Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) for communications service providers, announced today that it will be providing its acclaimed and unique platform, Revenue Operations Centre (ROC) for Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance to a Middle East fixed and mobile service provider, in a multi-million dollar deal. [Read more…]

Subex to present on ‘Fraud Reporting and Trending’ at IIR Telecoms Fraud and Revenue Assurance Summit 2011

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Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) for communications service providers, announced that it is participating as Associate sponsor and scheduled to present at the IIR Telecoms Fraud and Revenue Assurance event. The event will take place from 21 – 23 March 2011, at the Holiday Inn in London – Regents Park. [Read more…]

Subex strengthens European Sales Team with New Recruit

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Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) for communications service providers, announced recently the appointment of Sandro Curati to the European Sales Team. Sandro is based in Germany and in his new role as Sales Director he will be responsible for developing the business for Subex in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Romania. [Read more…]

Volubill and Sandvine Partner to Deliver Fully Tested and Pre-Integrated Real-Time Policy Management and Policy Enforcement Engine

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Volubill, the leading provider of real-time policy management and charging solutions, has completed interoperability testing with Sandvine, (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND), the leading provider of Network Policy Control solutions for fixed and mobile operators, to create a best-of-breed solution that gives network operators the understanding of network traffic required to deliver more dynamic and contextualized data service plans. [Read more…]

Monitoring IMS/LTE at Scale

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The use of multiple technologies and an exponential rise in network elements creates new challenges in gaining end-to-end visibility of IMS and LTE network performance and availability.

By Matt Goldberg, Systems Engineer, SevOne, Inc.

LTE (Long Term Evolution) has been confirmed as the fastest developing mobile system technology ever, with at least 64 LTE networks expected to be in commercial service by end of 2012. All existing 3G technologies can harmonize to LTE, which provides a natural migration path for both CDMA and GSM/HSPA wireless carriers. [Read more…]