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TDI Solution Wins Technovation Award

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Communication Solutions doubles effectiveness of sales with closed-loop coaching solution

TDI announced that it received the American Teleservices Association (ATA) 2008 Technovation Award for its Encore™ Suite. The Technovation Award recognizes innovative technologies that are the most influential to the advancement of Teleservices. It was presented at the ATA’s 25th Annual Convention and Exposition. [Read more…]

i-conX Enlists Telecom Expert for Emerging Markets

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Peter Deane, telecoms industry expert, was appointed by Dublin-based interconnect specialist, i-conX Solutions, to step-up the company’s continuing focus on emerging markets.

As former managing director for i-conX’s closest competitor, Intec, Peter was responsible for the company’s presence across Europe, Middle East, and [Read more…]

VimpelCom Group’s Strategic OSS Supplier to be NetCracker

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Operations across VimpelCom group will permit Integration with NetCracker’s solution

NetCracker was selected by Open Joint Stock Company VimpelCom Group as its strategic OSS supplier. The cooperation between NetCracker and VimpelCom is a continuation of the successful partnership originally established between NetCracker and Golden Telecom. [Read more…]

Revenue Assurance Benchmark Study Indicates Entire Revenue Leakage Three Times Operator Recovered Amount

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14 communications service providers from around the world considered by study

cVidya Networks announced the findings of the first Revenue Assurance Benchmark Study report carried out in collaboration between the TM Forum and cVidya Networks and based on the TM Forum’s 10 standard KPI methodology. The study included 14 communications service providers from 5 continents, most with a relatively high RA maturity level. [Read more…]

Cellcom Israel Reaffirms Trust in ECtel’s Revenue Assurance

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ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Management (IRM) solutions for communications service providers, has announced today that Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL), Israel’s largest cellular operator, has chosen to upgrade its RAP system to ECtel’s most advanced integrated revenue assurance RAP platform. [Read more…]

MetraTech Adds Two Seasoned Executives to Team

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MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider, has strengthened its leadership team with two key executives. The additions are a response to the recent wins in the communications, transportation, and SaaS markets, the new regional headquarters in Asia Pacific and Latin America, and the dramatic increase in employee count. [Read more…]

Leading Central American Operator Standardises on Intec; Consolidates Operations on Integrated Platform

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Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), has signed a significant contract with a leading Central American network operator for an end-to-end settlements solution. This latest contract adds another new customer to Intec’s growing Latin American customer base and is further evidence of Intec’s momentum within the region. [Read more…]

Bouygues Telecom Customer Care Depends on Sicap Technology

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Bouygues Telecom and its long term mobile technology partner Sicap announced today how the managed Sicap platform is helping the operator to provide advanced customer care.

Sicap has customized its Device Management Center in order for Bouygues Telecom customers to provide a user-friendly website to update Web&Mail service settings. [Read more…]

GETCO Selects Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Solution

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Leading Bangladesh operator to deploy Oracle Communications application

GETCO Telecommunication Limited, a pioneer in the Bangladesh communications industry, selected Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management software. This firm recently received a license from the Government of Bangladesh to act as an interconnection exchange provider. [Read more…]

Tata Communications Brings Virtualized Unified Threat Management (vUTM) to India

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Enterprises in India looking to optimize network management costs targeted by hosted security

Tata Communications introduced virtualized Unified Threat Management (vUTM) for the first time in India. This firm is the first service provider in India to offer its customers virtual UTM which integrates critical security functions including firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus, anti-spam, and [Read more…]

TDI’s CEO Awarded American Teleservices Association’s Fulcrum Award

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TDI announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Kathleen Kelly, has been awarded with the highest honor in the teleservices industry. The American Teleservices Association (ATA) honored Kelly with its 2008 Fulcrum Award, which recognizes the extraordinary contributions to the ATA by outstanding individuals and company leaders in the field of teleservices. [Read more…]

Atlantique Telecom Contract Extension Awarded to Intec Consolidates Market Reach in Africa

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Today, Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), announced a contract extension with Atlantique Telecom, one of the fastest growing GSM operators in West and Central Africa. Intec will supply its market-leading InterconnecT software to Atlantique mobile subsidiaries throughout French-speaking Africa, on a single centralized platform deployment. The implementation makes Intec the undisputed leader in the African wholesale billing market, with now close to 40 operators using its technology. [Read more…]

SunTec’s business rule-based TBMS-T solution helps Bakrie Telecom set new MURI record

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SunTec, the leading provider of Relationship-based Pricing and centralized billing solutions, has announced that its Indonesia-based client Bakrie Telecom has set a new Museum Rekor Dunia Indonesia (MURI) record in being the first-ever operator in the country to offer a revolutionary tariff scheme for SMS. The leading telecom service provider of Indonesia used SunTec’s real-time transaction pricing solution TBMS-T to introduce the innovative ‘SMS Satu Rupiah (Rp 1) per character’ plan – SMS charging based on the length of the message or the number of text characters — for its ‘Esia’ CDMA post-paid customers. The sales promotional efforts of Bakrie Telecom’s new service offering have won accolades from MURI, which is Indonesia’s most recognized certification for record achievement. [Read more…]