Telecom
Robi Axiata Selects Comptel OSS Solution
Bangladeshi mobile operator Robi Axiata has chosen Comptel Provisioning & Activation and Comptel Catalog to replace its existing post-paid, pre-paid and VAS provisioning systems with Comptel’s solutions. The changeover is expected to help the operator improve time-to-market and ensure low service-deployment error rates. Robi Axiata is a joint venture company between Axiata Group, Malaysia and [...]
Sonera wins 4G frequencies in Finnish auction
In a Finnish 4G frequency auction, Sonera was awarded frequencies with which it can build a next generation ‘super-fast mobile broadband network’ in Finland. Teliasonera has informed that the company will start building the network immediately, and aims to open the network for the first pilot customer during the first quarter of 2010. The company [...]
Vocaltec acquires Outsmart assets
Vocaltec Communications, a provider of multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Outsmart, a provider of telecommunications convergence solutions. The Outsmart assets acquired by Vocaltec includes Outsmart’s technology and intellectual property, as well as its primary customer and partner contracts. Vocaltec plans to engage certain Outsmart [...]
Bouygues Telecom selects Alca-Lu’s LTE solution
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Bouygues Telecom has selected its end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) solution for a trial of mobile broadband services. The trial is intended to evaluate the performance of LTE services in the 1800 MHz spectrum band. Alca-Lu will serve as the sole supplier and network integrator for Bouygues Telecom’s field trials program, [...]
TeliaSonera, Altimo combine ownership interests in MegaFon, Turkcell
TeliaSonera and Altimo have agreed to combine their ownership interests by contributing their respective direct and indirect interests in Turkcell and Megafon, into a new company. The new company will be established in a western jurisdiction and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Together the companies hope to create an international operator, with over [...]
STC selects Motive technology
Motive, a provider of digital life management solutions for fixed and mobile broadband services and an Alcatel-Lucent company, has been selected by STC (Saudi Telecom Company), a telecommunications carrier in Saudi Arabia, to deliver its High Speed Internet ServiceView solution. The solution offers a unified customer care environment aimed at providing end-to-end visibility and control [...]
NTT Docomo, five vendors develop specifications for value-added IMS
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and NTT Docomo have announced the joint development and successful testing of common technical specifications for value-added IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network services. The technical specifications recently demonstrated by the six companies support deployment of data processing functions, such as image conversion, on the IMS network. The [...]
Alcatel-Lucent launches IP Transformation Centre in India
Alcatel-Lucent has launched a new IP Transformation Centre (IPTC) in Chennai, India. First centre of its kind in the sub-continent, the IPTC is aimed at developing, integrating and testing end-to-end IP networking solutions for Alcatel-Lucent’s Indian and global customers as they migrate to next generation architectures. The centre will enable service providers to design, test [...]
Teliasonera, Alcatel-Lucent deploy 100Mbps access network in Finland
Alcatel-Lucent and Nordics operator Teliasonera have announced the deployment of the first 100Mbps VDSL2-based access network in Finland, enabling the delivery of a full-blown (high-definition) IPTV service offering across the country. Teliasonera’s fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) architecture makes use of fibre cables that are trenched from the operator’s central offices to the basement of (apartment) buildings. From [...]
AJC, PCL announce Gigabit Ethernet Service between US and Aus
Australia Japan Cable (AJC), operator of the AJC cable system between Japan and Australia, and Pacific Crossing (PCL), the operator of the ‘lowest latency network’ across the Pacific, PC-1, have announced the launch of their Gigabit Ethernet Service for carrier, enterprise, and ISP customers looking for scalable, flexible connectivity options between Australia and North America. [...]
