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Allround Short-listed as Finalist for World Billing Awards 2006 in Best Revenue Assurance/Management Project Category

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The joint application of Magyar Telekom’s T-Com business line and Allround has been short-listed as Finalist for the World Billing Awards 2006 in the Best Revenue Assurance/Management Project category. The common project is an excellent example of proven billing accuracy, targeting efficient revenue assurance and legal compliance at the same time. The winners will be announced at the Billing and Information Management Systems 2006 Gala Dinner in London, on 8th June 2006.

László Harsányi, Director at Billing and CRM Directorate of T-Com stated: “it is our pleasure that the successful project with Allround was short-listed as finalist for the prestigious World Billing Awards. This nomination acknowledges the innovative ideas and the strong co-operation between the two companies to customize and implement this new methodology.“

The methodology behind this revenue assurance project was stability testing – time-based regression testing – which is a focused, efficient and cost-effective method to ensure that the tested system preserves its quality level over time. The backbone of this methodology is Allround’s flagship product – CeDaR. CeDaR introduces high-level of automation and the improvement of testing efficiency and meets the highest quality standards as the world’s first billing system testing solution attested by the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications (BABT). [Read more…]

GPTC Selects Telarix iXTools to Manage Interconnect Business

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Telarix™, a leading provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced that General Post and Telecommunications Company (GPTC), the main telecom operator in Libya, has selected Telarix’s iXTools™ as part of a strategic effort to expand its international carrier business and enhance the overall performance of its interconnect systems. The contract also marks Telarix’s expansion into Africa and the Middle East and solidifies the company’s position as the market leader among providers of interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions to the international telecommunications industry.

“GPTC has an ambitious plan to play a major and strategic role in the voice termination market worldwide and specifically in the Pan-African area,” said Kamal Farhat, Director of International Carrier Business at GPTC.

GPTC will leverage Telarix’s next generation routing optimization solutions, iXRoute™
and iXTranslate™, to further streamline and automate the carrier’s routing processes. These solutions eliminate the limitations associated with legacy Least Cost Routing (LCR) products by allowing carriers to define business and network requirements to financially optimize their network routing. [Read more…]

Intec CEMS Wins Best New Product Award at Billing and OSS World

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Intec Centralized Error Management System (Intec CEMS) was named “Best New Product” by US-based TeleStrategies as part of the Billing & OSS World 2006 Excellence Awards, which recognise the best vendors in the billing and operations support system ( OSS ) segment of the telecommunications industry.

Ed Finegold, Billing World & OSS Today editor-in-chief, said, “There were more than 100 submissions for the Excellence Awards this year. Intec CEMS was chosen to win the award for best new product due to its practicality for all types of carriers and its ability to impact and improve the bottom line, particularly for carriers undergoing significant change and consolidation with their large IT environments.”

This new product from Intec, which is already in volume production at a major US carrier, has also been shortlisted for two awards at the forthcoming World Billing Awards in London , June 8. Using Intec CEMS, service providers can cut revenue losses by dramatically reducing error volumes, lowering the costs of managing errors, and recovering revenue from unbilled usage and service order errors. Intec has also been shortlisted for a third World Billing Award for its mediation solution under “Best Billing Implementation”. [Read more…]

Openet Appoints Apollo Guy as Vice President of Sales for Americas

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Openet Telecom, a world leader in real-time charging, advanced mediation, and network-edge rating, today announced that Apollo Guy has been appointed Vice President of Sales for the Americas. Apollo is responsible for sales of Openet’s product and professional services, both direct and indirect, in North America, Central America and Latin America.

“I am excited in joining Openet at the cusp of IMS taking hold. Openet’s product suite provides proven and scalable solutions in a marketplace that is fast converging”, commented Guy. “Openet is playing a leadership position in changing the old commodity role of rating, charging, and mediation in the evolving communications sector, and redefining the concept of real-time performance”, added Guy.

Apollo joins Openet from CSG Systems, which acquired Telution, where he served as Vice President and General Manager, Broadband and Telco Business Unit. Prior to that, Apollo was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Lemur Networks. Apollo has over 20 years experience in the Telecommunications and Cable industries focused on finance, sales, marketing, business development and technologies, working for Rogers Cablesystems, Bell Canada, and Futureway Communications. [Read more…]

Vmobile Selects Allround’s Roaming Management System

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Allround, a leading supplier in the global roaming market is pleased to announce another major client of its Roaming Management system – Vee Networks Limited, trading as Vmobile Nigeria, one of the fastest growing operators in the country. In this highly competitive market Allround’s uniquely competitive price structure and close operator cooperation were vital to winning the tender.

“The tender was awarded to Allround based on the company’s reputation, high quality software, competitive pricing and many implementations both in the region and globally. Vendors had to demonstrate excellence in all categories, including system functionality, scalability, implementation and support. The awarding of the tender demonstrates Allround’s ability to excel in all these areas,” says Ayodele Adeboye, Vmobile’s Chief Billing Officer.

Nigeria represents a new addition to the expanding list of African countries, where Allround’s highly reliable TAP Solution allows Vmobile to introduce new services quickly to the market to get ahead of its competitors. It enables the management of all roaming aspects with unlimited operator connections and ensures Vmobile is always “TAP-to-date”. [Read more…]

telSPACE Selects Smartpath Solution by Trilibis Mobile

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telSPACE , an innovative provider of multi-service billing, rating, and customer care software solutions for the MVNO industry, today announced its selection of the SmartPathTM solution by Trilibis Mobile. This choice will accelerate telSPACE’s plan to offer data services that will dramatically enhance the customer’s experience with their mobile phones. These applications will work hand in hand with its data strategy launch powered by Wireless Services Corporation.

Paris Holt, telSPACE’s Chief Executive says, “The final piece to the puzzle has been put in place and we have now started development on what we believe will be the most comprehensive suite of cellular phone applications ever assembled. Each of our 27 MVNO clients will be able to customize this phone based application to fit their exact target demographic. Our goal is to revolutionize the way our MVNOs are positioned in the marketplace and provide customers with so much more functionality and utility than they have today.”

telSPACE has created a system that allows any company to add communications to their product line and become an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). The system comprises a comprehensive back office network, including all operations functions such as customer activation, carrier procurement, fulfillment, billing and rating, MIS reporting, customer service and soon data all integrated into one ubiquitous operating platform. telSPACE effectively uses the internet to automate the complex customer acquisition process, thereby allowing its clients to instantly penetrate new markets or expand service offerings. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions Nominated for World Billing Awards 2006

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Azure Solutions, the revenue assurance company, has been named as a finalist in three categories for the World Billing Awards 2006. The categories that Azure has been short-listed for are: ‘Overall Best Contribution to Billing’, ‘Most Innovative Billing Product’ and ‘Best Revenue Assurance/ Management Project’.

Azure’s Certo 2 product, the latest version of its automated revenue assurance solution, was nominated as a finalist in the ‘Most Innovative Billing Product’ category. Certo 2 helps operators detect, analyse and correct revenue-leakage problems in real-time and has already been implemented by several customers since its launch in January 2006. [Read more…]

COSMOTE Romania Upgrades Billing System with LHS BSCS 8

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LHS, a provider for telecommunications and billing software, announces that mobile operator COSMOTE Romania, member of the COSMOTE Group, selected LHS’ billing and customer care BSCS 8 system to replace its previous legacy system, on the basis of its proven marketing and pricing capabilities. The new billing system was installed to support COSMOTE Romania’s dynamic growth plans.

Christos Christopoulos, COSMOTE Romania IT Director stated: “COSMOTE is pleased to once again collaborate with LHS for the BSCS brand, which has a track record of excellent performance and proven reliability. Through LHS’ software, COSMOTE Romania is able to effectively implement promotional campaigns and promote its services to all its prepaid and postpaid customers”.

COSMOTE Romania, member of the COSMOTE Group, began commercial operations in December 2005 with the aim to make mobile telephony accessible to all. To this end, the company continuously expands its advanced products and services portfolio, introducing new voice, data and content value added services. [Read more…]

ACE*COMM Recognized for Best Customer Success by Billing World

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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, announced today that it has received the ‘Best Customer Success’ award from TeleStrategies, the publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine, at the Sixth Annual Excellence Awards reception on May 3 at the Billing & OSS World 2006 Conference in Miami. Published 12 times per year, Billing World & OSS Today is the most widely read magazine by the back-office software decision makers in the telecommunications industry.

“Billing World & OSS Today magazine is proud to present the 2006 Excellence Awards to the companies who are driving innovation and positive ROI in the billing and OSS/BSS industries,” said Jill Morgan, publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine. “The Best Customer Success category is self explanatory, but it should be noted that it was the single most competitive category in this year’s competition. This year’s winner – ACE*COMM – is a company we have seen go through many changes and challenges over the years in the industry. It is a company that has re-invented itself and thrived, but without ever abandoning its core expertise. What impressed us the most about ACE*COMM was the innovative way in which it has taken technology that is traditionally buried behind the scenes and given it relevance on the front lines.”

The Best Customer Success award recognizes outstanding industry achievement for real-life benefits achieved as part of a customer deployment. ACE*COMM’s Market Maker(TM) product – part of the ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) suite – was recognized for dramatically improving a Tier 1 cable operator’s ability to position its marketing resources to achieve higher quality upsell opportunities and close new customers. At the same time the operator was able to develop the information required to match marketing efforts with available network capacity. [Read more…]

Maroc Telecom Selects Atos Origin and Comptel for Automated Broadband Delivery

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Atos Origin, an international IT service provider and Comptel Corporation, a leading OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory announced today that they had been selected by Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s leading telecoms operator to automate DSL services across Morocco. Maroc Telecom provides fixed, broadband internet and mobile services across all regions in Morocco.

The Comptel® Fulfilment solution will be integrated into Maroc Telecom’s OSS by Atos Origin to automate the activation of DSL services to Maroc Telecom’s customers. This will meet the rapid growth in demand for broadband in Morocco. [Read more…]

Greece Carrier Lannet Chooses Intec Convergent Billing

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Intec, a supplier of BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, announced today that Lannet, a major alternate provider offering fixed telephony and internet ADSL services to retail and corporate customers in Greece, has gone live with Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView). The news follows the recent announcement of a win for Intec Convergent Billing with a major carrier in the Asia Pacific region.

“We needed to replace an out-dated, unsupported retail billing system if we were to have the capability to quickly react to the market,” said Fotis Tsitsirigos, IT Manager Lannet. “The major advantage of Intec Convergent Billing is that it is a robust, capable platform that allows us to move from traditional telephony models and freely develop whatever we imagine or need to best respond, lead and compete. Following an impressive implementation with zero delays or problems, we are now cost-effective and independent with no necessity for outsourcing or external consultancy when responding to commercial challenges. This is critical for a relatively small company with limited resources.”

Lannet operates in a crowded, deregulated market of ten alternate providers and the national fixed telephony company, OTE. With a fast-growing customer base, the company is successfully pursuing a new market share expansion plan of new products and services backed up by loyalty programmes, network development, investment, acquisition and alliances. The Lannet vision is to be the leading challenger in fixed telephony and broadband services. [Read more…]

Telarix Announces New Corporate Strategy

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Telarix, Inc., a provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced a new corporate strategy designed to combine its award winning interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions with a service-focused offering to provide the industry’s most comprehensive solution — uniquely tailored to address service providers’ most critical business issues.

As part of the new strategy, Telarix will offer its interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions over a Flexible Delivery Platform, which includes a new hosted offering called iXTools ASP(TM). Now carriers can choose either an outsourced, hosted or traditional software license solution to improve revenue assurance, optimize routing, manage complex agreements and facilitate financial traffic management.

“Offering a solution such as this in both a software-based and a services-based model helps tailor the end product to meet a carrier’s exact needs,” commented Paul Hughes, Vice President of Communications Software Strategies with the Yankee Group. “Telarix’s Flexible Delivery Platform strategy demonstrates the company’s commitment to meeting global communications carriers’ specific OSS/BSS strategies, each of which may differ based on past investment history and technology acquisition and usage preferences, and bolsters the company’s position in the global OSS/BSS space.”

This unprecedented offering provides traditional global incumbents, emerging service providers, and dominant regional players of fixed, mobile and VoIP services a comprehensive solution tailored to their specific business environment and requirements. Three of the world’s five largest telecom providers already depend on iXTools to optimize their interconnect business. [Read more…]

cVidya Adds Rating and Billing Verification to MoneyMap

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cVidya Networks, a global leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, announced today the addition of a new module – rating & billing verification – to the latest release of its flagship revenue assurance product, MoneyMap®/Suite.

“Including the rating & billing verification capabilities in the MoneyMap®/Suite will be beneficial for our existing customers and will open up more business opportunities for cVidya Networks. It allows us to create wider offerings and to stabilize the position of MoneyMap® as the leading complete revenue assurance solution suite in the market. We have successfully installed this module for existing customers and the feedback is very positive,” said Alon Aginsky, CEO of cVidya Networks.

With this new module, the MoneyMap®/Suite now provides a full revenue assurance integrated operations platform covering all areas of revenue assurance – usage, configuration, and now rating & billing verification. [Read more…]

Appium and Intec Launch New Charging & Billing Capability

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Appium, a provider of next-generation telecommunications applications platforms, and Intec, a leading supplier of charging & billing systems, today announced the launch of a new enhanced pre-paid billing solution. The Intec Charging & Billing solution now works together with the Appium platform and allows operators to cost-effectively migrate their services to all-IP networks. The two companies are partnering to bring a first in complete, configurable real-time platforms between multiple network technologies and back-office systems. The charging & billing solution partnership is being announced exclusively at TeleManagement World in Nice, France. [Read more…]

Exstream Software Awarded Most Promising Company Award At Telestrategies Billing & OSS World 2006

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Exstream Software, Inc. announced that it received the ‘Most Promising Company’ award at the sixth annual Billing and OSS World Excellence Awards ceremony held during the Billing & OSS World 2006 conference in Miami, May 3-5. Telecommunications professionals from all over the globe attend this conference to discuss the latest trends and future challenges of the industry.

“There is a clear need in our industry for enterprise solutions that streamline the document management process as well as deliver the capability to more proactively market to customers with personalized statements and invoices,” said Jill Morgan, publisher and editorial director for Billing World and OSS Today. “We continue to be impressed with the way Exstream is taking the telecom industry by storm. In the last few months alone, Exstream has gained huge traction with the largest of the wireless service providers, signing many significant deals. They certainly deserve the award in this category.”

Billing World and OSS Today magazine issues the ‘Most Promising Company’ award to recognize a company that is extremely well positioned for success in the telecom marketplace in the coming year. Receiving over 100 applications from OSS/BSS vendor companies vying for the six Excellence Awards, winners in each category had to demonstrate clear signs of success and growth. The finalists stood out due to their ability to measure, quantify and articulate the specific improvements they had delivered to their customers. [Read more…]

Comptel Launches Integrated Comptel Fulfilment Solution

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Comptel Corporation, an OSS software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, announced today the launch of the strengthened Comptel® Fulfilment – a suite of pre-integrated inventory and provisioning modules to cover end-to-end service fulfilment functionality from order capture to activation and reconciliation. The Comptel Fulfilment solution will help broadband and cable service providers meet the challenges of the growing demand and increasing competition for the delivery of services such as triple-play (voice, data, and video), by improving the cost, speed and quality of provisioning, to the obvious benefit of their customers. [Read more…]

Intec Billing Wins Interconnect Billing Deal with Dutch Incumbent KPN

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Intec Billing, a supplier of BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, has announced a win for core components from its market leading billing family, Intec Interconnect V7 and Intec Interconnect PREP, with the international wholesale voice division within KPN, the Dutch national operator. The deal is worth in excess of two and a half million dollars. KPN Global Carrier Services B.V. (KGCS) is an integrated part of the fixed division of KPN. It provides termination of international voice traffic originating outside and inside the Netherlands to any place in the world. [Read more…]

TelstraClear Uses Intec Interconnect V7 to Enhance Growth and Profitability

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Intec Telecom Systems, a provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), announced today that TelstraClear a competitive service provider in New Zealand is deploying Intec InterconnecT v7, the latest generation of the world’s most powerful, flexible and reliable system for domestic, international and ITU-based billing and settlements.

TelstraClear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telstra, the largest operator in Australia, is New Zealand’s second largest full service telecommunications provider, and provides services to the New Zealand market, serving the business, government, wholesale and residential sectors.

TelstraClear Strategic Sourcing Manager Justin Brochocki said: “We selected Intec’s Interconnect v7 because of its experience in the international market. Intec has a proven track record in delivering turnkey solutions of a similar nature to ours. This was an important factor for us.”

InterconnecT v7 meets the functionality and performance requirements of a dynamic telecommunications market by dealing with both traditional and next-generation products and services in a single system, and with proven ability to handle national carrier traffic levels. InterconnecT v7 takes settlement to the next level by also supporting inter partner settlement for IP-based services offered over next generation networks. This includes multi-party settlement with a variety of enterprises such as content providers, for services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), content downloads and multimedia messaging. [Read more…]

Convergys Wins Best Overall Company Award at Telestrategies’ Billing World 2006

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today it has received the “Best Overall Company” award as part of the sixth annual Billing and OSS World “Excellence Awards” at Telestrategies’ Billing World 2006.

Billing World and OSS Today magazine established the Best Overall Company Excellence Award to recognize a company that has proven leadership in its respective market and has demonstrated market achievement and innovative product development. The award application required companies to list key clients, recent contract wins, and partnerships. Additionally, the application required companies to address specific implementations and how they met client requirements, challenges, third-party involvement, benchmarks, and implementation times, and how the solution improved the clients’ operations. [Read more…]

Telarix Extends Flexibility of iXTools with Support for Oracle

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Telarix, Inc., the leading provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced that iXTools will also be supported on Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g. Telarix now offers interconnect solutions designed to support a variety of hardware architectures and database systems.

Telarix’s iXTools(TM) is a powerful suite of software modules that enables carriers to reduce costs and increase profitability across their interconnect networks. By analyzing both revenue and cost information associated with telecom traffic in near real-time, carriers can optimize network routing and identify financial risks and opportunities while ensuring that every call is captured, rated and billed accurately. Three of the world’s five largest telecom providers depend on iXTools to optimize their interconnect business.

“Telarix is committed to addressing the interconnect challenges facing today’s carriers, regardless of their operating environment and database platform,” said Don Lynch, CEO of Telarix. “We are pleased to support Oracle and further extend the benefits of iXTools.”

Telarix recently introduced its next generation interconnect billing solution, iXBill. The innovative system ensures the entire interconnect billing process is fully tracked and captured, providing service providers an unprecedented view of their revenue streams while identifying critical financial trends. [Read more…]

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