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Certo helps Telesur
analyze and protect usage revenue, as provider braces for new
competition
August 22, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance
company, today announced that Telesur, the principal telecommunications
service provider in Suriname, South America, has implemented its Certo
revenue-assurance platform to monitor and analyze the usage data for all
of its telecommunications services offerings to increase revenues and
reduce potential revenue leakage.
Telesur is the government-owned telecommunication operator of Suriname
and is readying for an eventual migration to 3G networks. Currently,
Telesur is the sole provider of all fixed, mobile and Internet
telecommunication services in the country, but it is facing the
introduction of competition in the near future. The deployment of Certo
comes soon after Telesur's recent selection of Nortel's [NYSE/TSX: NT]
XA-Core for improved wireless service, and upgrades to both its
nationwide wireline and wireless networks to increase capacity, improve
quality of service and enable delivery of a large suite of advanced
services.
Azure's Certo revenue-assurance platform will allow Telesur to monitor
and correct revenue leakage problems on its networks in real time. Certo
uses advanced process automation to provide end-to-end visibility and
control of the entire revenue life cycle faster, more cost-effectively
and with greater accuracy and fewer resources than any other solution on
the market. The Certo revenue-assurance platform is part of Azure's
comprehensive offering of revenue-assurance products and services, an
award-winning portfolio that includes Interconnect Billing,
International Settlements, Fraud Management, Mediation Management, Event
Integrity, Route Optimisation and Inter-Party Management.
"The integration of Certo will enable us to automate our usage analytics
and reconciliation processes, ultimately improving workflow efficiencies
and enabling us to better serve our customers," said Iris
Struiken-Wijdenbosch, managing director of Telesur, who retired last
month.
Steven Bruny, president of Azure's North American operations, Azure
Solutions Inc., said: "Telesur is a solid addition to the growing roster
of customers Azure is serving in South and Central America. As
competition and network complexity continues to increase worldwide, our
Certo revenue-assurance platform provides operators the ability to
detect and correct potential revenue leakage, thereby maximizing profits
and the ability to introduce new services more quickly."
For further information regarding Azure and its products and services,
please go to www.azuresolutions.com.
About Telesur
Telesur is the government owned telecommunication operator of Suriname
and is facing the introduction of competition in the near future.
Telesur provides all possible telecommunication services to its
customers. For more information visit Telesur on the Web at
www.telesur.sr.
About Azure Solutions (www.azuresolutions.com)
Azure Solutions is the world's largest revenue-assurance company. It is
headquartered in London, with people in Westminster (Colorado), Ipswich,
Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta,
Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Mexico City. Azure's end-to-end
revenue-assurance product portfolio for current-generation networks
includes Data Integrity, Wholesale and Interconnect Billing,
International Settlements, Fraud Management, Mediation, Management,
Translation and Rating, Event Integrity and Route Optimisation. Azure
has launched Azure Inter-Party Management and Azure Fraud Control System
as the first products in its next-generation portfolio. Azure provides
individual products or complete revenue-assurance solutions using a
common platform and any combination of products that a customer might
need. Customers can choose a system that they own and operate themselves
or a bureau that Azure manages on their behalf. Azure has over 60
customers across the world comprising PTTs, mobile operators, national
operators, carrier's carrier and cable TV companies. Azure has
significant carrier experience and understands the problems faced by all
these operators. The company's heritage can be traced back to BT in the
early 1990s. Azure was spun out of BT in April 2003 and is backed by New
Venture Partners, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and Intel Capital.
Recently Azure won the 'Best Revenue-Assurance Project' award at the
World Billing Awards 2005 in London, and 'Most Promising Company' at the
TeleStrategies Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards 2005 in
Philadelphia.
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