SCi, an independent, UK based sales outsourcing company is delivering significant results for new entrants to the UK market looking to establish a presence. One of these new entrants is Irish telecoms company eircom, the principal provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in Ireland. It has been outsourcing an element of its sales process to SCi in the UK since February 2006 and has to date seen significant results in the growth of its business in the region, including a pipeline of €1m. [Read more…]

CA (NYSE: CA) has announced that its industry-leading enterprise application management solutions, Wily Introscope and Wily Customer Experience Manager (CEM), have been selected to provide real-time performance monitoring for the Accelerated VoIP and IMS Services (AVIS) Catalyst Project. [Read more…]

Rosbank, one of the top 10 retail and corporate banks in Russia, has selected NexusINFORMER from Nexus Telecom to monitor the traffic on its ATM network. Once again, Nexus Telecom proves its unique competencies for real-time performance monitoring and reporting solutions, enabling carriers and enterprises to offer carrier-class services to their end users. [Read more…]

Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, is opening an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The new office is going to be the company’s regional headquarters for the Middle East and Africa region and will be based in Dubai Internet City (DIC). [Read more…]

George Glass, Chief Architect at BT and Tony Sceales, CEO at Celona Technologies will discuss BT’s SOA implementation case study at this year’s TeleManagement World Americas in Dallas. The case study, which is based on one of the largest scale SOA implementations in the world talks about how BT has been able to realise new revenues early whilst delivering reductions in costs through system and process rationalisation. [Read more…]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2007. [Read more…]

Microtronix® Datacom Ltd. has recently unveiled their latest low cost IP solution for Telco’s looking to economically update their legacy X.25 Call Billing Record collection systems. The Microtronix AMATPS Collection System is targeted at Telco’s currently using obsolete X.25 cards and dial-up modems to collect billing records from remote switches. [Read more…]

Tech Mahindra Limited, the leading provider of IT services and solutions to the global Telecom industry, has won the first ‘UK Trade & Investment India Business Awards 2006.’ They were declared winners in the coveted ‘Business Partnership of The Year Award’ category.

These awards have been instituted by the UK Trade & Investment at the behest of Prime Minister Tony Blair in September 2005. UK Trade & Investment India Business Awards recognise and celebrate UK-India business partnership, specifically in terms of inward investment, collaborative business partnership, entrepreneurship and innovation. [Read more…]

Bharti Telesoft, a leading global supplier of core Value Added Services (VAS) platforms and Business Support Systems (BSS) for wireless and wireline carriers, has signed an agreement to deploy its RoamVantage platform at SabaFon, helping to deliver a range of roaming services that will increase service options for inbound roamers and enhance operations for the leading Yemeni service provider. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Ltd., the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators has announced the successful global integration of businesses, employees & products of the two merging companies – Subex Systems and Azure Solutions. The results of the integration were reflected in the strong financial performance of the new combined entity for the second quarter of FY07. [Read more…]

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 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 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 (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 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…]

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…]

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…]