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Volubill Charges Forward with 84 percent Revenue Growth in 2008

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Policy Control and Real-Time Charging Prove to be key drivers for effective Bandwidth Management and Service Profitability

London, United Kingdom—16 February 2009—Volubill, a leading supplier of real-time charging and control applications for mobile data and content services, today reported another year of stellar revenue growth. The company’s CHARGE-ITTM family of products have proven to be instrumental in helping service providers, especially those within emerging markets, charge for data services and manage bandwidth across fixed and mobile broadband networks—and ultimately increase revenue and advanced service options. [Read more…]

Aircel Implements Oracle Software to Support Aggressive Growth

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Leading Indian Mobile Operator Deploys Oracle® Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database

Aircel Limited, India’s leading GSM mobile operator, has implemented multiple Oracle applications to help drive its aggressive growth plans. With more than 15 million customers in 10 Indian states, Aircel plans to expand its operations to at least seven more states this month and also launch WiMAX services soon. [Read more…]

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Implemented by Fox Mobile Distribution

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Platform to Help Leading Mobile Content Provider to Deliver Compelling New Services by Maximizing Operational Efficiency and Flexibility

Fox Mobile Distribution, one of the world’s leading providers of mobile entertainment and part of Fox Mobile Group, has implemented Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management to increase billing flexibility as it rolls out new services, as well as improve operational efficiency and enable continued growth. [Read more…]

Comverse Introduces Unified Communications Offering for Telecom Providers’ Enterprise Customers

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Businesses to benefit from seamless interaction between desktop and mobile applications

Comverse announced the commercial availability of its Unified Communications offering that allows telecom providers to deliver seamless mobile and PC-based voice and data communications to small and medium-sized businesses inside and outside the office setting. [Read more…]

Grameenphone and Sicap Partner for Intelligent Service Browsing

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Grameenphone subscribers in Bangladesh can now browse and access mobile services using a simple scroll-down menu, powered by Sicap software.

Sicap USSD Menu Browser (UMB) is more than just a simple USSD gateway. It intelligently channels applications towards a dynamic and interactive content menu, helping Grameenphone fulfil its commitment to “make it easy” for its customers to adapt and use various services. [Read more…]

Intec Supports Market Expansion for Exatel in Poland

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Intec Supports Market Expansion for Exatel in Poland

London/Barcelona/Warsaw, February 16th 2009 Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (OSS/BSS), today announced that Exatel, one of Poland’s largest communications network providers, has deployed an upgrade of Intec’s market-leading Total Service Mediation and InterconnecT billing and settlement solutions. The upgrade implementation, undertaken within budget and in advance of the anticipated roll-out, is set to help Exatel’s ambitious expansion plans. [Read more…]

Amdocs Expands Its Managed Services Offering and Continues to Demonstrate Momentum

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Service providers select Amdocs to reduce costs, support growth, improve operational quality and lower project risks

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that its managed services offerings continue to gain momentum with service providers around the world. Highlights from the 2008 calendar year include [Read more…]

Amdocs Helps Service Providers Stake Their Claim in the Digital Value Chain

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New App Store solution enables service providers to grow revenue via third-party digital applications and personalized online experiences

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced a new mobile applications portal solution to help service providers gain revenue from, and play a critical role in, mobile applications retailing. Called Amdocs App Store, it provides a collaborative environment in which service providers and their third-party developer partners can develop, sell and profit from the innovative digital applications and value-added services that are the hallmarks of the digital 3G and 4G world. [Read more…]

Comptel Dynamic OSS Sets New Benchmark for Mediation and Real-Time Charging Performance

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IBM benchmark highlights Comptel’s ability to protect Communications Service Providers against the growing mediation and charging requirements that ‘lifestyle’ services demand

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, today announced the results of an extensive scalability and performance benchmarking study undertaken in conjunction with IBM. [Read more…]

All roamers are different. Sicap treats them that way.

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Sicap over-the-air SIM technology dynamically steers network connections for roamers according to their device usage preferences. Long term leader in Device and SIM management, Sicap has today announced the live deployment by a major operator of an intelligent platform which individually steers yet does not bind roaming customers to preferential networks. [Read more…]

Amdocs Simplifies the Road to 4G

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Real-time charging, applications retailing, and turnkey business-support systems solutions for LTE and WiMAX network planning and rollout for monetizing 4G implementations

Amdocs announced new products and services to ensure a more predictable, profitable evolution toward 4G, whether via the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) standards. [Read more…]

VOSS Strengthens Team with Proven Management

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VOSS, a leader in Unified Communications (UC) service delivery software, announced today that it has appointed Norman Halvorson as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Will Blench to the role of VP Global Sales. VOSS, who closed $12 million in Series B private equity funding in September 2008, is using the funds to fuel its growth in the rapidly expanding marketing for deploying UC features (i.e. deploying integrated voice and video telephony, messaging, conferencing, presence and collaboration tools). These two strategic new hires directly support the funding objectives to grow the business. [Read more…]

Amdocs Delivers Value, Results Needed for These Times Through Enhanced Services

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At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the market leader in customer experience systems, announces enhanced services to lower the risk and cost of system implementation projects of all sizes. Whether service providers undertake sweeping transformation or incremental changes to their systems and operations, Amdocs’ delivery, project governance and testing services ensure reliable, low-risk results. [Read more…]

Comverse Optimises Converged Messaging and Social Address Book for Mobile Internet Devices

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Comverse has announced that its latest communications applications, such as Converged Messaging and a centralised social address book, have been optimised for mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin software platform. Comverse is demonstrating these applications at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 16 –19 February (Hall 8, Stand 8B 83). [Read more…]

Telefonica Europe Selected Amdocs ChangingWorlds for an Innovative and Personalized Mobile Internet Service

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At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that Telefonica Europe has selected Amdocs ChangingWorlds’ technology to launch a new, ground-breaking Mobile Internet service to four of the mobile operators from Telefonica Europe. Amdocs completed its acquisition of ChangingWorlds in December 2008. [Read more…]

Amdocs Announces New Offerings for Growth Markets Around the World

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At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced new and enhanced offerings to meet the needs of service providers in growth markets. These new offerings and enhancements to the Amdocs CES Portfolio are designed to enable service providers in both established and growth markets to introduce new products quickly, reduce risk and lower costs. [Read more…]

Implementation of Comarch IPB at Polkomtel

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Comarch SA, the Polish producer of IT software, and Polkomtel SA, Plus network operator, are executing the common implementation of Comarch InterPartner Billing (IPB), a system for managing multi-operator billing operations.

The contract for implementing Comarch InterPartner Billing in Polkomtel was concluded in May 2006. The implementation process was divided into five stages, each of them corresponding with different character of business billing and the type of operator. [Read more…]

Telenor Deploys Polystar’s Global Roaming Quality solution

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Polystar OSIX announced today its successful involvement in the GSMA Global Roaming Quality program and the first commercial installation of Global Roaming Quality (GRQ) solution.

Global Roaming Quality is a new framework for Roaming Service Level Agreements (RSLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Quality of Service (QoS) and is aimed to [Read more…]