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Telecom Italia goes live with Intec's convergent mediation
architecture
Inter-mediatE supports move to IP-based network and services
supporting over 27 million customers
London/Rome, May 11th 2003: Intec Telecom Systems
announced that Telecom Italia has gone live with the company's
Inter-mediatE™
convergent mediation solution.
The selection of Inter-mediatE followed a detailed and
competitive evaluation against other mediation vendors, with a
particular emphasis on performance on high-volume,
next-generation networks. Inter-mediatE replaced Telecom
Italia’s existing mediation system, providing fully convergent
mediation capabilities as it migrated its fixed line telephony
network across Italy, which serves over 27 million customers, to
IP. Intec eventually expects to be collecting and processing
hundreds of million of voice and data EDRs (event detail
records) per day.
Companies competing for this contract were evaluated on
technical, commercial and stability criteria. Intec’s solution
was chosen over its competitors for its proven performance and
flexibility in large-scale networks, and true convergent
capabilities. These will be particularly important as Telecom
Italia migrates its network from a traditional switched
infrastructure to an IP-based system, a move which it expects to
deliver very substantial cost savings.
Inter-mediatE is a flexible, high performance real-time
mediation platform designed to meet the requirements for
convergent service delivery and billing on all types and sizes
of network. Over 150 mobile, fixed, 3G and IP operators
worldwide rely on Inter-mediatE for convergent mediation
services, delivering accurate, high-quality data to downstream
billing and other operational systems.
“Telecom Italia is a long-term client and we are very pleased
the company selected us again on the basis of both technical
superiority in convergent mediation and business strength,” said
Kevin Adams, Intec’s CEO. “We see many operators who are looking
to improve business performance through upgrades to key OSS
systems and mediation is at the heart of this process. True
convergent mediation can cut operating costs by consolidating
multiple systems, and the capability to deal with all types of
services in one platform is a key requirement for efficient
operations.”
“Intec had a substantial performance advantage in benchmarking
tests, and its reference base of high end customers was very
reassuring” said Telecom Italia’s manager responsible for the
Mediation project. “In addition, we have built a solid long-term
relationship with Intec on interconnect billing, and we are
satisfied that Intec, as a public company, is a vendor with good
financial stability and a commitment to a real presence in
Southern Europe.”
The Telecom Italia Group is one of the world's principal
telecommunications companies, and a business leader in Italy.
The Group's international presence is focused in Europe, Latin
America and the Mediterranean Basin and it is one of Italy's
largest corporations.
Telecom Italia has more than 27 million fixed network
connections; mobile network lines total more than 20 million,
while Tin.it numbers in excess of 3.5 million subscribers. For
more information visit the website on http://www.telecomitalia.it.
About Intec
Intec Telecom Systems is an award-winning worldwide Operations
Support Systems (“OSS”) vendor for fixed, mobile and
next-generation networks (ie. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than
500 installations of its products worldwide. Founded in 1997,
Intec was listed on the London Stock Exchange (Code: ITL.L) in
June 2000. Intec is the market leader in intercarrier billing
systems and convergent mediation software, and a recent winner
of the 2003 Global Billing Award – Best Overall Contribution,
and Telestrategies ‘2003 Mediation Excellence Award’.
Intec’s billing and telecom OSS portfolio includes:
Inter-mediatE™ -
convergent mediation solution
InterconnecT™ -
carrier billing including US CABS and ITU
Inter-activatE™ - flow-through provisioning and
service activation
Inter-contenT™ - end-to-end content revenue management
Intec Dynamic Charging Platform™ – a real-time pre/post-paid
charging interface between the network and the back office
Intec ASF™ - end-to-end billing and management for advanced data
services
Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth,
BellSouth Peru, Brazil Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom
(Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, EBT
(Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis
(Malaysia), Singtel Optus (Australia), Orange, Telecom
Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA
(Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telia (Sweden),
Telefonica, Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel
(Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia) and Verizon. For more
information on Intec Telecom Systems, visit the website at
http://www.intecbilling.com.
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