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BTC Bahamas to Implement Cerillion Convergent Solution for NGN Services

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Cerillion Technologies today announced a multi-million dollar contract with The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC) to implement a fully convergent CRM and billing solution in the Bahamas. The new solution will replace two separate legacy systems and be used to consolidate all fixed and mobile services onto a single platform, including support for convergent prepaid and post paid rating. It is also a key component in BTC’s wider business strategy, preparing for deregulation and helping to secure revenues from the new Next Generation Network (NGN) currently under deployment. [Read more…]

Subex Selected by Romtelecom for Centralized Operations Center for Mitigating Risks to the Revenue Chain

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Subex Limited announced that Romtelecom selected Subex Rocware™ solutions to form the core of a Revenue Operations Center (ROC).

Romtelecom’s objective is to reduce the risk of financial loss from revenue leakage, fraud, or bad debts. The ROC environment at Romtelecom will include Subex’s Moneta™ Revenue Assurance Solution, NikiraTM Fraud Management Solution, and the Prevea™ Risk Management Solution. [Read more…]

Clarity Reaches 120 Million Subscribers

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Unified OSS comes of age

Clarity announced it is now the market leader in unified OSS, having hit 120 million subscribers. This amount of subscribers marks a breakthrough in the marketing and provisioning for unified OSS for Tier 1 as well as Tier 2 telcos. This achievement follows a 12 month period of extra-ordinary growth, which has seen Clarity sign contracts with a number of new customers including BSNL, Globe Telecom, and Western Power. [Read more…]

eServGlobal’s MessageMax Partner Program Launched with SOPRANO Campaign Manager

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eServGlobal Limited announced a new initiative to offer MessageMax alongside SOPRANO Campaign Manager and other third-party solutions, which is expected to deliver additional value for their clients.

The solutions partner program allows eServGlobal to expand its service capabilities by delivering MessageMax with third party messaging applications such as SOPRANO Campaign Manager, a world leading mobile marketing and customer engagement tool. [Read more…]

Sigma Systems Will Present a Converged Broadband Services Delivery Case Study at TM Forum’s Management World 2008

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Sigma Systems, a recognized industry leader, has been enlisted by the TM Forum to present a service provider case study with one of North America’s leading cable operators at the upcoming Management World conference, which will be held in Nice, France. Sigma will also demonstrate its solutions for advanced advertising, residential triple play, hosted commercial voice, and mobile services at booth 87. [Read more…]

Cypress Communications’ Unified Communications Educational Seminar will be Presented to Wall Street Technology Association

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Value of a hosted delivery model for unified communications to be discussed by
Frank Grillo at financial technology seminar at Warwick New York Hotel

Frank Grillo, Cypress Communications’ executive vice president of marketing, will present an educational session entitled, “Why Go Hosted? Implementing Unified Communications” for the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA). The seminar will be held Wednesday, 21 May 2008 at the Warwick New York Hotel in New York City, NY USA. [Read more…]

Telco Billing and Credit System’s Speed, Reliability Improved by McObject Database

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Lifetree Convergence has added the eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) embedded database system from McObject in its upcoming J@nus real-time rating and credit control platform. Enhancing service by enabling customers to access account features and balances instantly, the database, also, builds fault-tolerance into Lifetree’s operating support system/business support system (OSS/BSS) through its high availability sub-system. [Read more…]

Sicap and Red Bend Sign Agreement for Interoperable Device Management

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Mobile operators and device manufacturers will now have complete control over remotely managing all mobile devices in the network using a standards-based, fully interoperable solution from Sicap and Red Bend Software. Sicap, the leader in server-side Device Management, and Red Bend , the leader in Mobile Software Management, has announced their agreement to ensure interoperability between their products. [Read more…]

Subex unveils New OSS and BSS solutions at Management World Nice

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Subex Limited, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) for communications service providers, is unveiling a new version of its industry-leading Revenue Operations Center (ROC) and is launching new products in its Revenue Maximization and Fulfillment and Assurance business lines. The solutions are debuting at the TeleManagement Forum’s Management World 2008, held between May 18 – 22 in Nice, France. (Subex is at booth #96). [Read more…]

Subex Launched Call Routing Decision Solution, OptimaTM 4.6, to Enable Telecom Operators to Make Efficient and Informed Decisions

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Subex Limited announced the launch of OptimaTM 4.6, which is a new version of its Route Optimization system. This solution has been designed to help service providers create optimized route plans for automatic switch upload as well as to facilitate a full reporting suite for data analysis. [Read more…]

Comptel Serves Nearly 200 Million Subscribers on the Indian Subcontinent

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Comptel Dynamic OSS solutions support the fantastic subscriber growth by leading service providers in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

Comptel, announced that the number of telecom subscribers its solutions serve via its customers has now reached close to 200 million. This landmark amount of subscribers has been reached through a combination of the signing of new customers in 2007 and the phenomenal growth of existing customers. [Read more…]

WeDo Technologies to Discuss Trends in Revenue Assurance with Leading Global Telecom Players

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WeDo Technologies will hold its third WeDo User Group Meeting on the 15th and 16th of May 2008 in Algarve, Portugal. This two day meeting will be attended by more than 120 WeDo partners and major mobile and fixed telecommunications operators from Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Companies in attendance will include organizations such as Vodafone, Orascom, France Telecom, Era GSM, TPSA, Orange, Brasil Telecom, Telefónica, and Mobinil.The meeting attendees will discuss the trends and challenges of Revenue Assurance and Fraud in several business areas and share their knowledge and experience with companies already using WeDo Technologies’ Revenue Assurance solutions. [Read more…]

Tribold Chosen for Telekom Austria’s Centralized Product Catalog Platform

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Telekom Austria AG chose Tribold’s to centralized product catalog and management capability solution. This will centralize the disparate product catalog currently in place at Austria’s leading communications services provider. This new platform will permit the creation of new products and services across product lines and feature configurable products and add-ons to allow Telekom Austria’s marketing team create customized service offerings. The centralized product catalog will ensure operational savings and efficiencies and reduce the time to market for new services. [Read more…]

Advanced Technologies & Services, Inc. Unveiled Revenue Assurance 2.0 at Billing & OSS World Conference

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Advanced Technologies & Services, Inc. (ATS) recently made a presentation about Revenue Assurance 2.0 at the Billing & OSS World Conference in Chicago , IL. ATS’ President Randall Guthrie presented to a capacity audience about creating the Revenue Operations Center (ROC) of the future and how Revenue Assurance groups at telecom operators played a critical role in its success. The evolution of Revenue Assurance has been a key topic recently throughout the telecom industry. [Read more…]

TTI Telecom Announces Netrac Studio 3

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OSS implementation environment to simplify network management and accelerates time to support new services and network technologies

TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. announced the launch of their Netrac Studio 3. This new solution gives network operators a single platform providing centralized control over the entire process and life cycle of data collection and processing for service assurance. The Studio merges the functionality of Mediation, Fault, Performance, and Service management under a single interface. [Read more…]

Sonus Networks and Tata Communications Unveil Strategic Plan for Global IP-Voice Network

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Tata Communications’ global voice network to be migrated by Sonus Networks

Tata Communications and Sonus Networks, Inc. unveiled plans for the strategic expansion of Tata Communications’ global voice network. The Tata Communications’ global voice network expansion represents further execution of the Company’s mission to expand its global reach and ability to deliver IP-leveraged communications solutions to businesses and consumers worldwide. Tata Communications will, also, deploy Sonus’ Network Border Switch to interconnect its disparate voice networks and deliver seamless IP services across geographies. [Read more…]

Subex CTO to Serve as TM Forum Advisory Director

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The firm continues its active support of TM Forum

Subex Limited announced that Mark Nicholson, CTO and technical visionary for Subex and its complete family of Fulfillment and Assurance and Revenue Management solutions, will serve as an Advisory Director for TM Forum. Mr. Nicholson will share his extensive OSS expertise to help enrich the decisions and direction of the organization. [Read more…]

Sonus Networks Reported First Qtr 2008 Financials

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Year-Over-Year Quarterly Growth and Increased Profitability Announced by Industry Leader

Sonus Networks, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter, which ended 31 March 2008.

Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 were $74.0 million, compared with $97.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 and $71.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Net income on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 was $0.6 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $14.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007, and a GAAP net loss of $4.0 million, or $0.02 per share, for the first quarter of 2007. [Read more…]