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Brasil Telecom Taps IBM and Narus to Accurately Identify Revenue

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IBM and Narus announced today that Brasil Telecom, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Brazil, has implemented the industry’s first solution to effectively help identify and collect unclaimed revenues generated across networks, known in the industry as “revenue leakage.” Using IBM BladeCenter and Narus’ carrier-class IP traffic analysis system, Brasil Telecom can now efficiently manage revenue streams across services running on their networks.
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Veramark Technologies Reports Profit for the Quarter and Year

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA), today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005. For the fourth quarter of 2005 Veramark reported a net income of $266,000, $0.03 per diluted share, on sales of $2,902,000. For the full year ended December 31, 2005 Veramark’s net income was $382,000, or $0.04 per diluted share, on sales of $10,859,000. For the year ended December 31, 2004 Veramark had reported a net loss of $114,000, or $0.01 per share, on sales of $11,036,000.
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LogicaCMG and LHS Systems Join Forces to Deliver Full Prepaid and Post-Paid Billing Convergence

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LogicaCMG today announced an agreement with LHS Systems to formalise the collaboration on convergent prepaid and post-paid software and a systems integration partnership. LogicaCMG and LHS Systems have a long-shared history delivering billing systems to mobile operators worldwide. For operators, investment in convergent billing systems offers proven business benefits in attracting new prepaid and post-paid customers, raising overall revenues and average revenue per user (ARPU), and increasing loyalty.
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Integrated Telecom Solutions (ITS) Releases Convergent Services Charging (CSC) Solutions

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Integrated Telecom Solutions, Inc. (ITS), a Richardson, Texas-based telecom solutions company, announces the release of Convergent Services Charging Solutions. Integrated Telecom Solutions’ Convergent Services Charging (CSC) Solutions are an innovative value-added product providing mobile operators a solution with which to gain optimal value from their investments in existing billing and prepay systems with minimal change.
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Telecoms operators should urgently review their outsourcing strategies, says Analysys

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Telecoms operators should urgently review their outsourcing strategies or risk being out-maneuvered by rivals, according to a new report, Outsourcing by telecoms operators: strategic and commercial options, published by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (http://research.analysys.com).
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Omnitel Launches NetCracker to Manage Resource and Service Management

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NetCracker Technology, the leading global solution Company enabling Service Providers to rapidly deliver and effectively manage convergent and content-rich offerings, today announced that Omnitel has completed its deployment of NetCracker’s OSS solution. The deployment of NetCracker’s service and resource inventory, outside plant, and discovery and reconciliation modules was completed in record time despite complex interplay of diverse systems. The success of the implementation was due to NetCracker’s ability to provide out-of-the-box capability, integration expertise and strong solutions delivery.
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NetCracker Underscores the Importance of Wireless OSS at 3GSM; Leading OSS Vendor Encourages Mobile Operators to Transform the Service Layer for a Competitive Edge

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NetCracker Technology, the global OSS solution leader, today announced that its goal at 3GSM was to present the importance of service layer transformation in creating, delivering and assuring new content-rich services.
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Comptel Announces Convergent Inventory Solution for Mobile Operators

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Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has today announced the availability of Comptel Incatel NIMS, the convergent inventory for mobile operators to help record, plan, assign and manage efficiently the physical and logical resources in their network.
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Echostar Presents MetraTech with Vendor Award for Fastest Implementation of a Major Project

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MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of Web Services-based billing, customer self-care, and partner management solutions, and EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) and its DISH Network have announced that MetraTech has successfully completed a project to deploy MetraTech’s MetraNet platform to deliver the service activation, provisioning and subscriber management functionality required to support a key service offering in late 2005.
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Subscribers Never Miss a Message with New SMS Divert Solution

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Subscribers can now divert or copy SMS to another mobile phone number or to email with IMF Divert, a revolutionary service that ensure they never miss a message again. Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Divert which is indispensable for business travelers, employees and pre- to post-paid migration. By enabling a number of revolutionary and valuable SMS-based services, IMF Divert helps network operators improve service levels, increase billable events and revenue from text messaging and build loyalty in key high-ARPU market segments.
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Avalanche Mobile Makes Children’s Mobile Phone Use Safe

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Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Control, a breakthrough text messaging control solution which helps parents protect their young children by enabling parents to see who is messaging their child, block suspicious SMS and importantly, temporarily suspend the messaging function of their child’s mobile phone during school hours or other quiet times.
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International Turnkey Systems (ITS) and Tango Telecom Announce Strategic Partnership at 3GSM 2006

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International Turnkey Systems (ITS), and Tango Telecom have announced a strategic partnership which will see the integration of the ITS Real Time Rating and Billing Platform (TABS) with the Tango Telecom Voice and Data Converged Charging Node (CCN). The full integration of the two platforms will marry the extensive billing and account settlement functionality offered by the ITS converged billing platform with the comprehensive network call control and metering functionality supported by the Tango platform.
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New Messaging Services from Avalanche Mobile Open New Ways to Reach Gen-Y

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Avalanche Mobile announces IMF Append, an innovative text messaging solution which enables mobile subscribers to send and receive their text messages for free – courtesy of third party sponsorship. This solution appeals to younger subscribers with limited budgets but lots of friends to keep in touch with, and of course to advertisers who are eager to reach the elusive Gen Y and youth markets.
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MatrixStream to Release World’s First High Definition IPTV and Set Top Box and PC Player

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MatrixStream Technologies, Inc., will soon be releasing the world’s first H.264 AVC (advance video codec) Video on Demand and IPTV Set Top Box (STB) and PC Player capable of the highest of high definition (HD) signal formats with 1080 vertical pixels by 1920 horizontal pixels. MatrixStream’s 1020HD STB will match and even exceed broadcast and satellite quality video over any broadband network the same way that VoIP can be used over any broadband connection.
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StreamServe and LHS Announce Strategic Partnership to Enable Enhanced Bill Presentment for Telecom Customers in 70 Countries

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StreamServe(R) Inc. (www.streamserve.com), the global leader in Enterprise Document Presentment, and LHS, a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care systems, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable LHS to provide the most advanced invoicing capabilities available for their client companies.
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Sunrise Telecom Nets Major Five-year Agreement with O2 Germany

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Sunrise Telecom® Incorporated (Pink Sheets: SRTI.PK – News), a leader in testing and monitoring solutions for voice, video, data services and next-generation digital multimedia, today announced that it was awarded a five-year contract to provide its Traffic Analysis and Monitoring System (TAMS) to O2 Germany, one of Europe’s leading providers of mobile communications services. Sunrise Telecom was selected for its technical leadership, flexible solutions, and exceptionally high performance during its partnership with O2 over the past several years.
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Avalanche Mobile Provides Operator’s the Key to Protecting Subscribers From Mobile Spam and Fraud

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Avalanche Mobile, a leading global developer of network-based SMS management technologies, announces the launch of their IMF Protect solution to help mobile network operators protect subscribers from mobile spam and fraud. A part of Avalanche Mobile’s Intelligent Messaging Filter™ suite, IMF Protect can screen and analyze all text messages before they are delivered to subscribers, which has significant implications for text spam and fraud which are becoming increasingly common problems for network operators and subscribers. These solutions will be demonstrated at Hall 4, HS6.08 at 3GSM in Barcelona from February 13 – 16.
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