Billing Solution delivers customer-centric management.October 26, 2006 -
Crestel Convergent Billing combines operational and business support services, policy management, authentication, and customer care requirements with convergent billing solution in ready-to-deploy appliance for Tier-1 and Tier-3 WiMAX service providers.
Crestel enables high-value broadband service delivery to qualified customers through user and device authentication, provisioning, mediation, real-time rating, and charging with prepaid and postpaid billing.
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Original Press release
Elitecore Technologies Ltd.
904,Silicon Tower,
Ahmedabad, , 380 006
India
Crestel Introduces WiMAX Billing and Customer-Centric Management
(WiMAX World Conference and Expo, Boston, USA. 11 October, 2006)
AHMEDABAD, India, Oct. 11 / - Elitecore Technologies introduces Crestel Convergent Billing to deliver end-to-end billing and customer-centric management that meets the complete OSS / BSS, policy management, authentication and customer care requirements with distinct offerings for Tier-1 and Tier-3 WiMAX service providers.
"Even as WiMAX has extended beyond backhaul towards the access level, it has emerged as a parallel service to cellular technologies with its ability to cater to mobile VoIP," says Hemal Patel, Managing Director and CEO, Elitecore Technologies, vendor of Crestel Convergent Billing. "To meet the challenge of providing matching service levels, WiMAX providers require a complete billing, service delivery and customer management solution."
WiMAX deployments are gaining speed, giving credence to predictions that the WiMAX equipment market is expected to grow from 42 million USD in 2006 to 3 Billion USD in 2010, according to In-Stat research.
"Although focus has been on cost-effective wireless connectivity in rural and low-infrastructure areas driven by green-field operators, WiMAX has found ready acceptance with Tier-1 operators in densely populated urban areas for the convenience of anywhere VoIP and high-speed data, content offerings, requiring different levels of service delivery," Patel adds.
Crestel meets the requirements of these two sets of deployments with a convergent billing solution and a ready-to-deploy appliance.
As a convergent solution, Crestel delivers network agnostic, OSS / BSS, functioning through a unified control layer, enabling multi-service operators to seamlessly integrate their WiMAX offering into current networks while offering matching service levels over the new technology.
In conjunction with Elitecore's RADIUS solution which offers proven carrier-class AAA, Crestel enables high-value broadband service delivery to qualified customers through user and device authentication, provisioning, mediation, real-time rating and charging with prepaid and postpaid billing. The complete solution enables service providers to deploy an extensive portfolio of differentiated offerings that include voice, video and data services over broadband.
At the other end, it offers a one-stop solution to smaller providers and greenfield operators with limited technical and financial resources, delivering pre-paid and post-paid billing, accurate service provisioning, policy-based QoS, inbuilt RADIUS functionality, differential packages and customer web self-care in a single, ready-to-deploy appliance.
Elitecore has partnered with leading WiMAX equipment vendors like Aperto and Navini Networks to deliver a complete, ready-to-use WiMAX solution.
Crestel meets the billing and customer care needs of Tier-1 service providers like BSNL, MTNL in India, serving over 4 million end-customers as well as GSM and CDMA clientele. Crestel's portfolio includes pre-WiMAX deployments in Africa and current deployments in India. Its ready-to-deploy solution is installed in over 96 cities in 20 countries across the world.
Crestel personnel would be present at Stand 104, WiMAX World Conference and Expo, Boston, for product presentation and appliance demonstration.
About Elitecore Technologies Limited
Elitecore Technologies combines an innovative approach with deep business knowledge to offer Crestel Convergent Billing Solution with a carrier-grade billing, customer care, mediation and provisioning platform that enables next generation data, voice and video services over wireline and wireless networks. In addition, it offers billing and bandwidth management and unified threat management solutions. Crestel equips service providers with the resilience to build successful convergence, together with the intelligence to create fine segmentation, enhancing profit margins. Open, expandable APIs, make Crestel a future-proof solution, empowering clients to deliver great customer service, introduce innovative revenue-generating products rapidly, reduce total cost of ownership and enjoy scale with margins.
For more information on Crestel, visit http://www.crestel.in/.
Source: Elitecore Technologies Limited
CONTACT:
Priyanka Shah,
Elitecore Technologies Limited,
priyanka@elitecore.com,
+91-79-26405600
Web site: http://www.crestel.in/
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