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…]
Comptel Extends Global Presence to South Africa by Opening Cape Town Office
Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, has announced that it is extending its global operational presence to South Africa in order to meet the growing demand for its software in the region. The Comptel representation based in Cape Town, South Africa, will be headed by Mr. Erwin Blomeyer. This new representation extends Comptel’s global presence to a total of 18 countries, serving over 250 customers in over 80 countries worldwide. [Read more…]
Vistula Communication Services Acquires Goodman Blue Limited
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…]
Highdeal Introduces New Hybrid Payment Solution with Online Balance Management
Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions, has announced the introduction of its new real-time Online Balance Management solution, Highdeal Transactive®.
Building on the award-winning Highdeal pricing and rating solution, the new Online Balance Management solution enables service providers to easily create and differentiate new packages, offering flexible payment options such as hybrid prepaid and postpaid plans and shared group payment plans. It is designed to utilise real-time charging information from any number of concurrent applications or blended services in order to obtain on-demand balance information. It also plays an integral role in protecting subscriber balances from credit risk and overspend. [Read more…]
Verso to Offer Intec BSS OSS Products and Services in Adriatic Region
Intec Telecom Systems, a global provider of Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) for fixed, wireless, and IP/next generation networks, has signed a partnership agreement with Mrežne tehnologije VERSO d.o.o., Croatia’s leading provider of customised network solutions and services. Under the contract Verso will offer and integrate Intec BSS/OSS products to its customers in the region, including Intec Interconnect, Intec Mediation, and Intec Centralised Error Management (CEMS) solutions. [Read more…]
LHS Generates 1125 Million Invoices Per Hour for Billing and Customer Care
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…]
Convergys Signs Customer Care and Billing Contract With BT
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, has signed five year contract with BT (NYSE: BT) to expand the use of Infinys, Convergys’ state-of-the-art billing and customer care solution, to support all of BT’s consumer, business, and wholesale customers. BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
“With Infinys as our core rating and billing engine, we can significantly streamline our billing operations, reducing costs, while introducing new services to market faster than we can today,” said Maria Pardee, CIO of BT Retail.
This agreement encompasses the use of Infinys to rate and bill all BT products and services including BT’s 27 million plus PSTN (public switched telephone network) customers. Convergys’ Infinys solution is capable of supporting traditional PSTN services as well as next generation all Internet Protocol (IP) services on the same platform, including services enabled by IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). [Read more…]
PAETEC Named Top Overall CLEC by ATLANTIC-ACM
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…]
Lucent Enhances Belize Telecom Rating and Charging Services
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
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…]
FTS Presents First Demo of Business Control Layer at GSM 3G Africa 2006
FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions for communications service providers, will be providing a demonstration of the value of the new sector of telecoms technology, called Business Control Layer, at GSM>3G Africa on October 19th at 12:05pm.
Business Control Layer is a software layer in a service provider’s infrastructure which resides between the network and BSS allowing providers to dynamically adapt network or service behavior, at the customer level, in order to increase revenues and improve customer experience. [Read more…]
FTS Creates Business Control Layer Sector in OSS BSS Industry
FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Billing and CRM solutions for Communications Service Providers (CSPs), has created a radical new sector of telecom OSS/BSS – the Business Control Layer. Business Control Layer technology has far-reaching implications upon service providers’ ability to increase revenue and improve customer service.
The Business Control Layer is a software layer in a service provider’s infrastructure residing between the network/OSS and the BSS. The Business Control Layer simultaneously connects to any network infrastructure and includes service management elements from the billing system coupled with real-time charging and network management elements. The technology can dynamically adapt network or service behaviour, at the customer level, in order to increase service providers’ revenue and improve customer experience. This works by capturing customer interaction events in real-time and responding in real-time based on a pre-configured set of business policies or actions, such as sending the subscriber a message, provisioning a network element, balance management or rating. [Read more…]
ACN Goes Live with MaxBill’s Customer Care and Billing Platform
ACN, one of the world’s leading direct sellers of telecommunications services, and MaxBill, a market leader in providing comprehensive, financial customer management and billing solutions, has announced the successful deployment of MaxBill’s End-to-End Customer Care and Billing platform, providing ACN with enhanced customer service and network marketing capabilities for its New Zealand market. [Read more…]
Openet and Promon Announce Partnership in South America
Openet Telecom, a leading provider of active mediation, charging and rating solutions, has announced a partnership with Promon, the largest network integration company in Brazil by the International Data Group (IDG), for the distribution of Openet’s revenue generating solutions to wireless, wireline, and cable operators in Central and Latin America.
“Openet is delighted with to have a Promon partnership in place,” said Apollo Guy, VP of Sales and Alliances, Americas, at Openet. “Openet is committed to extending its North American market leadership into Central and Latin America. Promon’s proven track record with operators in the region combined with Openet’s industry-leading products and solutions will accelerate our shared objectives,” said Guy.
Promon’s domain expertise and strength in the Latin and Central America markets provides telecommunications operators with a local presence for integration, deployment, and operational support for the full breadth of Openet’s solutions. [Read more…]
Amdocs Signs Contract with Vodafone Netherlands
Vodafone Netherlands, one of the largest mobile providers in the Netherlands, and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), has announced that Vodafone Netherlands has signed a five-year managed services agreement with Amdocs. Amdocs will assume responsibility for Vodafone Netherlands wholesale and retail billing, provisioning and partner settlement operations. This will allow Vodafone Netherlands to increase its focus on addressing customer needs and on service innovation, while achieving operational cost efficiencies. [Read more…]
IBM Benchmarks Intec Convergent Billing
Intec Telecom Systems and IBM have completed a performance benchmark of Intec Convergent Billing v6, the latest version of the market-leading customer care and billing system, on IBM System p5 servers, demonstrating the capability to handle a sustained throughput equivalent to the needs of a customer base of 60 million pre-paid subscribers. The benchmark was based on a current customer implementation and reflected realistic operating conditions and data.
Intec Convergent Billing v6 is designed to offer scalable, leading-edge performance for any combination of payment method and communications technology, including pre- and post-paid, fixed, wireless, and next-generation services, for operators and service providers of all types and sizes. [Read more…]
Comptel Showcases Live Triple-Play Provisioning and Mediation Solutions
Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), a leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that its provisioning and mediation solutions feature in a fully functional live Triple-Play environment at the Triple-Play Alliance’s labs near Munich, Germany. As one of the founding members of the Triple-Play Alliance, Comptel is the only OSS vendor involved in the Triple-Play Lab, an international centre of competence that has been set up to develop and demonstrate integrated voice, data and video applications. [Read more…]
Cerillion Technologies Breaks into List of Britain’s Fastest-Growing Unquoted Technology Companies
Convergent billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, has been named one of Britain’ fastest-growing private technology companies in this year’s Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100: a league table, ranking companies by sales growth over the period 2003-2005. Cerillion, whose sales increased by 42 per cent a year from £6.3 million in 2003 to £12.7 million in 2005, achieved 90th place on the list. [Read more…]
Formula Telecom Solutions Re-brands as FTS
Formula Telecoms Solutions (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Business Control, billing & CRM for communication and content providers, has announced that it has changed its name to FTS. After years of innovation in the industry, FTS has undergone a wide re-branding effort to more accurately reflect its visionary position.
As well as the name change, FTS has created a fresh, new visual identity and a new website which better reflect the sophistication and innovation of FTS’ solutions. The new website will explain to Service Providers about FTS’ success and experience in delivering complex solutions, such as bundled services delivered over single or multiple network technologies and prepaid/postpaid convergence. [Read more…]
COMCOR Russia Chooses Comptel Convergent Network Inventory Solution
Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading Operational Support System (OSS) software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today that Moscow Telecommunications Corporation (COMCOR) has selected Comptel’s network inventory solution. COMCOR, one of the largest competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in Russia, will be using Comptel Incatel NIMS initially to handle outside plant, inside plant and logical resources in its network. In a later phase, COMCOR will deploy Comptel’s inventory as part of the Comptel Fulfilment solution, to automate provisioning of its network and services. [Read more…]
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