IBM transforms IDEA Cellular

Successful Post-paid IT and Business Transformation Enables Idea to Deliver Superior Experience to Over 5 Million Customers Across India. IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Idea Cellular Ltd (Idea), India’s 3rd largest mobile operator, has leveraged the company’s business consulting expertise to transform its postpaid business, enabling Idea to provide improved customer service while simultaneously […]

ONO Upgrades with NetCracker

ONO Upgrades Rating and Billing Capabilities with NetCracker. NetCracker Technology announced that ONO, the leading Pay TV, broadband, mobile, and fixed line voice provider in Spain, has signed an agreement with NetCracker to upgrade its rating and billing capabilities and to deliver its Active Mediation solution to support ONO’s rapidly growing mobile service offerings. ONO […]

TeliaSonera selects Ericsson

TeliaSonera selects Ericsson for enhanced customer experience. TeliaSonera has selected an Ericsson Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution based on the Customer Experience Assurance (CEA) offering. With this new solution, TeliaSonera will address subscribers’ demand for high levels of service quality and user experience by proactively and more efficiently resolving customer experience issues with regards to […]

Comptel and Tecnotree partner

Comptel and Tecnotree Partner to Manage the Delivery of Complex, Triple-Play Orders and Improve the Customer Experience. Comptel Corporation and Tecnotree Corporation announced that they have partnered to help communications service providers (CSPs) overcome the challenges of creating and delivering complex, triple-play orders that include mobile, fixed broadband and television services. At Mobile World Congress, […]

MTN Group selects Flytxt

MTN Group Selects Flytxt Platform for Real-time Decisioning. Flytxt, the Big Data solution provider for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), today announced its group-level agreement with MTN, the largest Telecom Group in Africa. The CSP will deploy Flytxt’s real-time, on trigger decisioning and customer engagement solution across its group operations. MTN, having recently won the prestigious […]

Ericsson and CenturyLink partnership

CenturyLink will enhance customer experience with Ericsson Service Agility. CenturyLink, Inc. and Ericsson have signed an agreement for a next-generation OSS/BSS solution. Through this joint development effort, Ericsson will utilize its Service Innovation Framework to help enhance the CenturyLink customer experience, giving enterprise customers more control over their services and helping reduce service delivery times. […]

Deutsche Telekom partners with Magisto

News from Mobile World Congress: We’ve Partnered With Global Telecommunications Company Deutsche Telekom. Quoting the Magisto Blog: In addition to spending time getting to know other mobile industry mavens and showcasing Magisto at the Israeli Pavilion and Qualcomm Ventures booths, we’re also excited to announce, from MWC, that we’ve partnered with global telecommunications company Deutshe […]

Oi selects F5

Oi Selects F5 Diameter Signaling Solution. F5 Networks announced that Oi selected the F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC) to meet the Diameter signaling management demands of their LTE network. Signaling serves a crucial function within a telecommunications network’s internal communication system. For 4G/LTE, signaling is based on the Diameter protocol, with agents that control […]

Juniper expands SDN portfolio

Juniper Networks Expands Software-Defined Networking Portfolio to Help Service Providers Build High-IQ Networks. At MWC (Mobile World Conference) 2014, Juniper announced an expanded SDN portfolio, as described in the link above, specifically targeting service provider operators to accelerate service creation and customised user experience. Juniper Networks is expanding its SDN portfolio with new software and […]

Ericsson combines cloud, SDN, NFV

The real-time cloud – combining cloud, NFV and service provider SDN. Ericsson has released their high-level architectural view of a network that combines cloud, SDN and NFV. More information can be found on the link above.

Ericsson, SAP and Telenor Connexion do M2M

Ericsson, SAP and Telenor Connexion bring benefits of M2M connectivity to new frontiers via partnership. One year into their partnership, Ericsson and SAP have success with Telenor Connexion, enhancing business processes and offering a complete end-to-end solution for large enterprises. Together the three companies are making it simple for enterprises to connect their assets and […]

Ericsson, Huawei and NSN sign OSSii

Ericsson signs agreement for multi-vendor interoperability in OSS Further to the Huawei and NSN agreement, an earlier cooperation agreement with Ericsson has also now been invoked for OSSii. This party (Huawei, NSN, Ericsson)agreement comes on the back of Huawei acquiring Fastwire and indicating an intention to extend their OSS offerings to customers. Ericsson’s official statement reads as […]

Vipnet Croatia to Launch Redknee

Vipnet Croatia to Launch Redknee’s Converged Charging Solution to Advance Growth Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that Vipnet Croatia, a leading EMEA operator and provider of multi-play services, will upgrade to Redknee’s latest version of its real-time charging solution. Redknee’s highly scalable and flexible solution provides Vipnet Croatia with innovative real-time charging and billing capabilities to […]

NEC, NetCracker and Cricket Collaborate on SDN

NEC, NetCracker and Cricket Communications to Collaborate in Customized Trial of SDN and Network Virtualization NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced an agreement with Cricket Communications, a pioneer of prepaid wireless services, to trial network virtualization based on SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technologies. Cricket, NetCracker and NEC will collaborate in the […]

HeavyReading on SDN and NFV

“Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) create new management challenges that can’t be addressed with current operations support systems (OSSs). SDN and particularly NFV – which is emerging as the larger, “umbrella” concept – are therefore encouraging new companies, with new network management approaches, to enter the market, while causing established players to […]

Comptel and Tech Mahindra Strategic Partnership

Comptel and Tech Mahindra Agreed on Strategic Partnership for Comptel Fulfillment Solutions. Comptel Corporation and Tech Mahindra have agreed on a strategic fulfillment solutions partnership to deliver aligned value propositions for the ongoing OSS/BSS transformation of Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Comptel will benefit through a strengthened partnership a wider sales channel, increased productivity and secured […]

Chunghwa signs Ericsson

Chunghwa boosts customer experience with Ericsson real-time charging and policy control Chunghwa Telecom Co. has selected Ericsson as the consulting and systems integrator of an online charging system (OCS) and policy and charging rules function (PCRF). The new BSS (business support systems) environment supported by Ericsson will include a single integrated online charging and policy […]

Huawei buys Fastwire

Chinese networking giant Huawei has acquired Australian company Fastwire, in an attempt to accelerate its capabilities in OSS (operational support systems). Huawei has not formally announced the acquisition, but mentioned it at a London briefing by Leroy Blimegger, its global president of assurance and managed services. He was speaking to press and analysts ahead of […]

Ericsson and Ciena sign strategic agreement

Ericsson and Ciena announce strategic global agreement Ericsson and Ciena announce a strategic global agreement to develop joint transport solutions for IP-optical convergence and service provider software-defined networking (SDN). As part of this agreement, Ericsson offers Ciena’s Converged Packet Optical portfolio, including the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and 5400 family. Ericsson will benefit from Ciena’s best-in-class […]

Huawei and NSN OSS agreement

Huawei and Nokia Solutions and Networks Sign Bi-lateral Agreement for Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative Huawei announced the signing of cross-license agreement for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) along with Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN). The OSSii aims to simplify interoperability between OSS systems in a multi-vendor environment. OSSii will provide easy access […]