Upcoming Event: Optimising OSS & Service Provisioning

Posted on August 2, 2008 Written by oss

From time to time OSS News Review features upcoming events. The Optimising OSS and Service Provisioning event will be held in Prague from the 13th to the 15th of October, 2008.

EVENT: Optimising OSS & Service Provisioning

DATE: 13th-15th October 2008

LOCATION: Mövenpick Hotel, Prague

INFO: This event will provide practical information for operators on how to meet the challenges associated with the transition to NGN and all-IP. It will feature in-depth case studies from operators who are leading the way in rapidly deploying and supporting the high quality, converged services that drive customer loyalty and enable competitive differentiation.

Tata Communications Announces Dedicated Point to Multipoint Ethernet and Dedicated Multipoint Ethernet Worldwide

Posted on July 31, 2008 Written by oss

New configurations from Global Ethernet leader offer unmatched flexibility, scalability, and performance

Tata Communications announced today the introduction of two new Ethernet services to enhance the company’s industry-leading, global Wide Area Network (WAN) Ethernet Portfolio: Dedicated Point to Multipoint Ethernet and Dedicated Multipoint Ethernet. Tata Communications further strengthens its leading position in the global WAN Ethernet market with these new services, which offer [Read more…]

VIBtelecoms Furnishes Cutting Edge Data for Location Based Services Players

Posted on July 31, 2008 Written by oss

The focus of VIBtelecoms latest conference, Location Based Services (LBS), will be maximizing revenue and engaging the consumer. The conference is to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, 3 and 4 September 2008, in London and will explore [Read more…]

Fanatstic Nuance Solution Brings Self-Service Directly to Mobile Phone Consumers

Posted on July 29, 2008 Written by oss

Nuance Mobile Care is Groundbreaking Innovation that will Better Serve Consumers was Confirmed by Customers and Industry Expert

Today, Nuance Communications, Inc. announced Nuance Mobile Care (NMC), which is an easy-to-use mobile phone application that [Read more…]

TeleBarbados Implements Equinox Information Systems’ TeleLink Software

Posted on July 29, 2008 Written by oss

TeleLink joins with MetaSwitch to process usage records

Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems announced today that TeleBarbados installed the TeleLink mediation software system. The TeleLink solution integrates with [Read more…]

Globalcom Announces FTS’ Leap RevChain Billing Solution

Posted on July 29, 2008 Written by oss

FTS Enables Globalcom to Bring Billing Operations In-house Seamlessly

Today, FTS announced that Globalcom(tm) Inc. has gone live with their Leap(tm) RevChainR solution, Version 7.1. This deployment enables Globalcom to seamlessly [Read more…]

Intec Opens New Dubai Office to Assist the Quickly Moving Middle Eastern Market

Posted on July 29, 2008 Written by oss

Intec Telecom Systems PLC opened a new office in Dubai. This office, 35th worldwide, will serve the fast-evolving Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan telecoms markets.

The Middle East is one of the fastest developing wireless markets in the world, growing [Read more…]

Comarch Enhances Satellite DTH Services with IPTV Solution

Posted on July 29, 2008 Written by oss

Comarch announces new IPTV solution intended for Direct-To-Home (DTH) operators by allowing them to offer interactive TV services over a telecom infrastructure. [Read more…]

Xalted’s Interconnect Billing Solution Delivers Superior System Efficiency by Processing well over 100 million CDRs Daily

Posted on July 23, 2008 Written by oss

A first of its kind, Xalted’s Interconnect Billing Solution, InterTrace, processed 1.021 billion CDRs in a 5-day time span without any human intervention. A leading Indian telecom operator’s live data was used to process invoices for [Read more…]

T-Mobile Czech Republic Selected Amdocs Enterprise Software

Posted on July 22, 2008 Written by oss

Third T-Mobile company, which is the largest Czech mobile service provider, deploys Amdocs for product information management

T-Mobile Czech Republic and Amdocs announced today that the Amdocs CES Enterprise Product Catalog 7.5 software was selected as their central product information repository for services, handset and accessories offered via its self-service portal. With this software, T-Mobile Czech Republic will be able to [Read more…]

Comverse and IBM Join Forces

Posted on July 22, 2008 Written by oss

They will deliver value-added services and billing solutions for telecommunications providers worldwide

Comverse is partnering with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to help telecommunications service providers worldwide reduce operational costs, increase efficiencies, and drive growth.

Through a recently-signed technology and services agreement, Comverse and IBM will offer customers solutions based on [Read more…]

Astellia Brings 3G Radio Access into the Mobile Broadband Arena

Posted on July 22, 2008 Written by oss

Astellia’s monitoring solution enhanced its 3G capabilities to enhance the quality of data services by combined analysis of IP level and radio level.

Mobile data services usage is taking off thanks to attractive offers and the introduction of [Read more…]

Mtel Hosted Contact Center Selected Covergence to Manage and Control SIP Trunking

Posted on July 21, 2008 Written by oss

Session Manager provides cost savings and increased call control though deployment of a SIP trunking solution

Covergence(r) announced that Mtel selected the Covergence Session Manager (CSM) to deliver a single point of policy enforcement for real-time applications used within its Whizper online contact center services. The Covergence Session Manager will enable Mtel to increase the [Read more…]

HP Offers Telecom Companies Real-time Charging Solution to Transform Billing

Posted on July 21, 2008 Written by oss

HP pointed to five telecom operators that are transforming traditional billing
operations into real-time engines to grow with HP’s charging technology.

HP RealTime Charging enables precise, customer-centric pricing models that help telecom operators expand revenue with high-value services. The offering also helps operators create competitive [Read more…]

cVidya Networks Wins the World Billing (BIMS) Awards 2008

Posted on July 21, 2008 Written by oss

Awarded for the best Revenue Assurance and Management Project deployed in 2007

cVidya Networks announced that it won the World Billing Awards 2008 in the Best Revenue Assurance and Management Project category at Billing & Information Management Systems (BIMS) 2008. The candidates were evaluated based on [Read more…]

Swisscom’s Smooth i-Phone Launch by Sicap

Posted on July 21, 2008 Written by oss

Sicap assisted Swisscom prepare the 3G i-Phone for last week’s launch. Its Intelligent Network-based billing platform being set up for real-time rating to back up the Swiss operator’s prepaid services.

Long-term supplier of billing solutions in the Swisscom network, Sicap responded to the marketing demands of Swisscom by implementing [Read more…]

cVidya Chief Scientist Re-elected to the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) Advisory Board

Posted on July 21, 2008 Written by oss

Dr. Solotorevsky also serves as the Team Leader for the Revenue Assurance Modeling Team

cVidya Networks announced that Dr. Gadi Solotorevsky cVidya Chief Scientist has been re-elected for the 3rd consecutive year to the TMF Advisory Board as an advisory director. Dr. Solotorevsky also leads the Revenue Assurance modeling team of the TMF and has led several initiatives including the first Revenue Assurance Benchmark study and the development of the TMF standard KPI methodology. [Read more…]

Neural Technologies Selected by MTN South Africa for Fraud Management

Posted on July 20, 2008 Written by oss

Neural Technologies (Nt) announced that mobile telecoms operator MTN South Africa has migrated over to its Minotaur™ Fraud Management Solution.

MTN migrated to Minotaur™ from the former Cerebrus RE solution, which Neural Technologies has been supporting since it acquired Cerebrus Solutions at the end of 2004. MTN took the decision to upgrade to Minotaur™ following an extensive validation ‘gap analysis’ and market screening which demonstrated Minotaur’s™ throughput capability, wide-ranging functionality and its flexibility in terms of configuration. [Read more…]

Intrinsyc Acquisition of Destinator Technologies Completed

Posted on July 19, 2008 Written by oss

Market Opportunity For Soleus™ and Destinator® Navigation Software Products
Immediate Revenues and Expanded Market Opportunity Benefits of Acquisition

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of certain assets and operations of Destinator Technologies Inc. (“DTI”) and certain of its affiliates.

“This acquisition enables Intrinsyc to immediately capture the revenues and business operations of the Destinator wireless software product portfolio which includes navigation software for handsets and personal navigation devices. Customers include tier one Original Equipment Manufacturers: Motorola and LG. We have also acquired [Read more…]

eServGlobal and Bull Partnership to Deliver Communication 2.0 Services

Posted on July 19, 2008 Written by oss

The partnership will offer value added communication solutions, an enriched user experience, and driving new revenue opportunities for telecoms operators

eServGlobal Limited and Bull announced their partnership to offer value added communication solutions: initially with messaging for the new Communication 2.0 environment, and future opportunities in charging and mobile payment, bringing an enriched user experience and driving new revenue opportunities for telecoms operators. [Read more…]