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Boingo Partners with SingTel to Add 347 Singapore Wi-Fi Hot Spots

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Boingo Wireless, the world’s leading wholesale Wi-Fi network aggregator, has recently announced a roaming agreement with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) adding more than 347 locations in Singapore to the Boingo® Roaming System.

SingTel operates wireless hot spots in key locations across the country, including the Millennia Walk shopping center, Raffles City shopping center, Starbucks, Spinelli and Gelare cafes, popular eateries such as DeliFrance and Burger King, restaurants like Ichiban Boshi, Kuishin Bo, clubs like Ministry of Sound, tourist attractions like Sentosa as well as many country clubs, libraries and hotels. [Read more…]

TerreStar Builds Management Team to Deliver Next Evolution in Mobile Communications

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TerreStar Networks Inc., an emerging provider of America’s first 4G mobile communications network, has spent the last eleven months assembling a highly experienced management team since the FCC allocated 20MHz of S-Band spectrum for integrated MSS/ATC (Mobile Satellite Services/Ancillary Terrestrial Component) mobile communications in December 2005. TerreStar’s management team will guide the strategic development and operation of North America’s first all-IP mobile communications network with an integrated next-generation satellite and terrestrial system. [Read more…]

Comwave Telecom Partners With RADCOM to Enhance VoIP Service Quality for Growing Customer Base

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Comwave Telecom Inc., a leading Canadian provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service and RADCOM, Ltd., (Nasdaq and TASE: RDCM), a network test and service monitoring solutions provider, has announced that, in the third quarter of this year, Comwave selected RADCOM’s Omni-Q solution to monitor the quality of service delivered by its VoIP network. Omni-Q will allow Comwave to continuously collect, monitor and analyze voice quality and traffic performance to enhance service delivery to its customers. [Read more…]

InfoVista Enhances Metro Ethernet Services Through Pre-integration Certification with Alcatel

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InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Euronext IFV – FR0004031649), a leading service-centric performance management software company, has announced that its solutions are certified as pre-integrated with Alcatel’s 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) 4.0, the latest version of its industry-leading management application. Through InfoVista’s L2/L3 VPN Services Module for Alcatel 5620 SAM 4.0, service providers can leverage carrier-grade Metro Ethernet services and meet customer expectations for “always on,” high bandwidth service levels. [Read more…]

Research and Markets Releases The Next Generation Bill Report

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of The Next-Generation Bill: Commercial and Technical Strategies to their offering. The Next-Generation Bill: commercial and technical strategies examines the changing role of the bill in the next-generation world from the perspective of three different groups of telecoms service users: residential subscribers and small businesses; corporate customers; and wholesale customers (including network and content partners). [Read more…]

White Paper Addresses Telecommunications Information Management Architecture TIMA

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JacobsRimell (JR), a leading provider of customer-centric IP service fulfillment solutions, recently unveiled guidelines for a unified approach to telecommunications information management for all service providers as they face a number of systematic changes in the industry. The white paper, entitled “Telecom Information Management and Analysis (TIMA): Challenges and Solutions,” describes how an important strategic priority for service providers is to create an operations infrastructure that allows them to roll out new services much more rapidly, and with fewer errors, than in the past. [Read more…]

telSPACE and deltathree to Offer Integrated VOIP and Cellular MVNO Service Platform

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telSPACE, a leading MVNE, has teamed up with deltathree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDDC), a leading provider of hosted Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions worldwide, to provide a multi-service application for service providers that wish to deploy both VoIP and MVNO cellular services under a unified platform. [Read more…]

Survey Says African Telcos Losing Billions

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has revealed that African telecom operators are estimated to be losing over a quarter of revenues due to revenue leakage, which is double the global average (12.1 per cent).

The ‘Operator Attitudes to Revenue Assurance 2006’ report conducted by Subex Azure and telecoms analysts Analysys, reveals that the estimated loss across the sample of African operators was 26.8 per cent which is the equivalent to $25.7bn. [Read more…]

Xero Mobile Completes Phase Three of Implementation Plan

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Xero Mobile’s (Pink Sheets:XRMB) revolutionary ad-subsidized mobile phone service for college students is entering its pilot testing phase, the company recently announced, after completing the design and implementation of its core systems with technology partner XIUS.

Xero features TV-style ads with better ability to measure viewership than direct mail, the accountability of the Web and the intimacy of mobile, and unlike many competitors, has developed its own integrated telecommunications solution to provide a range of services. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Delivers Telecom Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance to MTC Namibia

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has successfully deployed its fraud management and revenue assurance systems at MTC Namibia.

MTC Namibia is the leading mobile services provider in Namibia, with in excess of 500,000 subscribers. Portugal Telecom recently acquired a 34 per cent in the company, and MTC Namibia was looking to further expand its reach in the region. As MTC Namibia’s network grows, it wanted to ensure that it had greater visibility of traffic crossing its network and had the tools to minimize its exposure to revenue leakage and reduce fraud on its pre-paid services. [Read more…]

bcgi Opens New Office in Spain

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bcgi (NASDAQ:BCGI), a leading provider of products and solutions that enable mobile operators and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) worldwide to differentiate their offerings and increase market penetration while reducing costs, has recently announced its continued international expansion with the official opening of an office in Madrid, Spain. The new location places bcgi directly in the economic heart of Spain, giving clients in Southern Europe greater access to the company’s expertise in billing and payment solutions. [Read more…]

Expenditure on New Mobile Phone Charging Systems to Grow 30 Percent

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Juniper Research has forecast that the annual growth rate for expenditure on new convergent mobile prepaid/postpaid solutions will average 30% per annum to 2011. Expenditure is forecast to grow from $299m in 2006 to just over $1.1bn by 2011 as operators strive for competitive advantage and improved operational efficiency. The largest expenditure over the 2006 to 2011 period is forecast to be in Europe due to the complex legacy charging environments installed in most established operators. [Read more…]

Vistula Communication Services Acquires Goodman Blue Limited

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Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (“Vistula”) (OTC Bulletin Board: VSTL) (http://www.vistula.com), a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over IP (“VoIP”) services to major telecommunications carriers and Internet Service Providers, has acquired Goodman Blue Limited (“Goodman Blue”), a UK systems integration and software house.

Goodman Blue provides a software package that allows service providers, of any kind, to deliver real-time, self-service and fully automated, provisioning, rating, billing, service management and reporting of telecom and other services. For Vistula and its customers this software sits on the outside of V-Cube(TM)(1) so that service providers can create hands-off management of their customers’ billable activity. The Goodman Blue solution is called – Order to Cash (“O2C”). [Read more…]

Subex Azure Signs Fraud Management Contract with Safaricom

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has announced that it has won a contract to provide its fraud management system to Safaricom Ltd, the Kenyan mobile services provider.

Safaricom is the largest mobile operator in Kenya with a customer base of 4.4 million subscribers. The number of mobile phone subscribers in Kenya has risen by 41 per cent over the last year according to the Communiciations Commission of Kenya. Safaricom wanted a scalable fraud management solution to help it reduce and identify subscriber fraud on its pre-and post-paid services. [Read more…]

LHS Generates 1125 Million Invoices Per Hour for Billing and Customer Care

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LHS, a leading provider of telecommunications and billing software, has revealed the results of a breakthrough performance test for its fully convergent billing and customer care system, BSCS iX. On an enterprise-class Sun Fire E25K server equipped with 72 UltraSPARC IV processors at 1,5 GHz processor, BSCS iX generated 1.125 million invoices per hour supporting 40 million customers. [Read more…]

PAETEC Named Top Overall CLEC by ATLANTIC-ACM

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PAETEC Communications, Inc., has announced it has received two Carrier Excellence Awards from ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based telecommunications research consultancy. PAETEC captured both the 2006 Metro Wholesale PRI Product Award and the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) Best-in-Class Service Partner Award. These awards are for the highest average ratings for PAETEC’s PRI product and the highest overall ratings for service provision, respectively. [Read more…]

Visionael Acquires Defero to Secure Position in OSS IP Service Delivery Market

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Visionael Corp., a leading provider of process-oriented inventory, provisioning and activation solutions for IP service delivery, has announced the acquisition of Defero AB, a Swedish operations support system (OSS) solutions provider. The deal strengthens Visionael’s ability to support service providers in the rollout of next-generation services across IP networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. [Read more…]

Lucent Enhances Belize Telecom Rating and Charging Services

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Belize Telecommunications Limited will soon be launching a range of new and enhanced services to its prepaid customers by means of Lucent’s SurePay real-time rating and charging engine, which has been commercially deployed in networks worldwide with a base of more than 135 million subscribers. SurePay is a scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution designed to support a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce services. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Signs Interconnect Deal with Omantel

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has announced that it is to implement an interconnect billing system for Omantel, the Oman telecommunications company.

Omantel and its mobile business Oman Mobile, provide fixed and mobile services to over 1.5 million customers. Omantel required an interconnect system to enable it to effectively rate, bill and provide settlements on its international and national services and agreements. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Partners with Hitachisoft to Deliver Revenue Assurance Solution to Japanese Telecoms

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Subex Azure Ltd, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Hitachisoft, one of Japan’s leading IT software development companies, to provide revenue assurance to Japanese telecom operators.

Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachisoft has the exclusive sale rights in Japan for the Subex Azure Revenue Assurance System (SARAS) and therefore will be able to combine it with its own technology and resell SARAS-based solutions to operators. [Read more…]

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