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Telecom OSS Goes Open Source Courtesy of Transverse

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Transverse, a pioneer of open source business solutions, is officially announcing its company launch today. Transverse is the first company to extend the true promise of open source computing to telecom operational support systems (OSS) — better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to vendor lock-in. [Read more…]

Spirent Communications Chooses SL Corporation to Enhance Reporting in Perform OSS

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SL RTView’s Extensible and Customizable Real-Time Visibility Benefits Customers SL Corporation® announced that Spirent Communications plc selected SL’s RTView™ to enhance the reporting functionality within the Spirent Perform™ operations support system (OSS). This integrated solution enables Spirent to provide customers with [Read more…]

Reliance Communications Selects Intec to Enhance Its OSS/BSS for Next Generation Readiness

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Reliance updates Intec Convergent Billing and adds Intec Content Partner Management to Support its Rapidly Growing Customer BaseIntec announced today that Reliance Communications successfully upgraded its current Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView) installation to the latest version (6.0) and signed contracts for Intec’s [Read more…]

Comarch To Hold BSS OSS Workshops

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Comarch, the worldwide supplier of innovative OSS, BSS and VAS solutions, has organized workshops in Germany from the 23rd – 26th of September 2008 in order to present their newest solutions and products as well as their plans for the future. [Read more…]

OSS Visibility Index for July 2008

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OSS News Review has released our OSS Visibility Index ratings for the month of July 2008. The OSS Visibility Index is a list of the most visible companies and products and services in the telecom OSS/BSS industry.

The OSS Visibility Index is published on a monthly basis and comes in two parts. The first part of the OSS Visibility Index consists of the rankings of the companies that were most visible online during the reporting period. The second part of the OSS Visibility Index consists of the rankings of the OSS products and services that were most popular during the reporting period. This third installment of the OSS Visibility Index includes data compiled during July, 2008. [Read more…]

Alcatel-Lucent Selected by Shentel to Upgrade Network for Wireless Broadband Services

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CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A technology and IP backhaul solution is included in deployment

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) and Alcatel-Lucent announced an agreement today valued at more than USD $30 million for equipment, services and software to upgrade Shenandoah Personal Communications Company’s network in Virginia, West Virginia, [Read more…]

The Berkman Center Defines Bypass Fraud

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“If you use a discount calling card from the US or Europe to phone Ecuador, Nigeria or any one of dozens of developing countries, your voice is now more likely streaming over the Internet and terminating via an illegal operator rather than travelling over conventional channels,” The Berkman Center, Harvard Law School.

What is the problem? [Read more…]

BTC Mobile Takes a Firm Stand Against Bypass Fraud with Neural Technologies’ Deal

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BTC Mobile implemented Neural Technologies’ (NT) Minotaur™ solution to enable it to tackle fraud on its network.

BTC Mobile has over a million mobile subscribers. A fraud review carried out by the operator in 2006 highlighted several areas of concern, the most pressing of which was Bypass Fraud. Bypass Fraud is the illegal [Read more…]

Martin Group Commits to Acquire Enhanced Services Software Assets

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Martin Group announced today that it signed a letter of intent to acquire Enhanced Services Software, which enables carriers to offer its customers self care, advanced messaging, new revenue applications, and capabilities with flow-through provisioning from their existing network infrastructure. The software, which is being acquired [Read more…]