Roaming Revenue Software minimizes settlement complexity.
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Roaming revenue management and settlement solution lets operators focus on increasing their own roaming revenues while maintaining customer and roaming partner satisfaction. Compliant with GSM TAP standards, solution supports CDMA CIBER protocol and enables efficient traffic processing regardless of network type. Enabling integrated roaming as part of broader wholesale management strategy, software can also provide clear economies of scale and simplified roaming business processes.
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Intec Launches Enhanced Roaming Solution
Mobile operators given greater control over maximising roaming revenues
London/Atlanta/Kuala Lumpur: October 27, 2009 - Intec, a global provider of business support systems (BSS) solutions, has announced the availability of its new Roaming Solution, designed to help remove the complexity from inter-operator roaming revenue settlement, allowing operators to focus on increasing their own roaming revenues while maintaining complete customer and roaming partner satisfaction. The solution is fully compliant with GSM TAP standards as well as supporting the CDMA CIBER protocol, enabling operators to process traffic as quickly and efficiently as possible, regardless of the type of network they operate.
Based on and as a complement to Intec's market-leading interconnect and mediation products, the Intec Roaming revenue management and settlement solution allows operators to be less reliant on third-party data clearing houses, thereby further boosting cashflow and financial transparency. By bringing control of the roaming settlement processes in-house, operators can integrate roaming as part of a broader wholesale management strategy. For a group of operators within a parent company, the solution can also function as a group-wide clearing house, providing clear economies of scale and simplified roaming business processes. For existing Intec wholesale business customers, Intec Roaming provides a clear and cost-effective path to taking charge of all aspects of their roaming operations.
"Our new Roaming Solution enables customers to react faster to industry changes and reduce overall costs associated with roaming traffic," explained Simon Pincus, Intec VP of Product Management. "By helping our customers improve their competitive performance, including a shorter-time-to-market launch for new products, they can concentrate more effectively on their most valuable customers, their high ARPU users."
"As a solution compliant with the policies established by the GSM Association, Intec Roaming provides Vivo with the agility required in a competitive environment, enabling us to close roaming agreements in flexible ways and improve revenue through this type of traffic," said Leo Petersen, Vivo Director of Interconnection and Roaming. "From a security perspective, the solution is robust, relying on the NRTRDE, HUR and Points of Control modules, thereby guaranteeing successful roaming transactions, while alerting us to possible cases of fraud and preventing revenue loss. The solution is easy-to-use and easy to learn, enabling Vivo to provide it more broadly internally."
Among many key features of Intec's Roaming Solution is support for the GSM Association-defined 'Rejects and Returns Procedure' (RAP). RAP provides operators with a mechanism to handle erroneous TAP files and call event records, resulting in fewer TAP files and records reaching any inter-operator dispute process. This improves inter-operator invoicing and settlement and cuts operating costs.
The solution also supports the new requirements for near real-time roaming data exchange (NRTRDE), which is crucial to minimize potential revenue loss associated with pre-paid roaming. End-to-end support for the roaming business process is underpinned by Intec's proven, high performance and scalable architecture, providing the user with a robust platform for future growth and change.
Intec's Roaming Solutions is now available; for more information please contact info@intecbilling.com
About Vivo
Vivo, controlled by the groups Portugal Telecom and Telefonica, is the mobile telecommunication company that offers the best quality in phone calls, according to Anatel (Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicaes). Vivo covers more than 2000 cities in Brazil with GSM and CDMA technologies, servicing the needs of its domestic subscribers as well as the large numbers of international visitors who come to Brazil.
The qualities that differentiate Vivo from its competitors include the search for excellence in its services as well as in its relationship with customers, a large portfolio of services, especially innovative services of voice and data transmission, like access to mobile broadband Internet, video transmission and other on-line communication formats. www.vivo.com.br
About Intec
Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world's top 100 telecoms carriers, and is one of the world's fastest growing suppliers of Business Support Systems (BSS) solutions.
Intec's 400 plus customers include AT&T, Antel, Cable & Wireless, The Carphone Warehouse (UK), China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Verizon. Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been with Intec since its inception, to add real value and ROI to their business by providing the highest standards of performance, flexibility and robustness to help communications service providers service their customers effectively and profitably.
Intec's products and solutions portfolio includes:
- Retail billing and customer management
- Multi-service mediation and activation
- Inter-carrier billing settlements including US CABS and ITU-based settlement
- End-to-end content partner management
- Optimized wholesale routing and trading
- Real-time and convergent charging
- Pre-integrated solutions for wholesale, wireless and next generation charging functions
Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has over 1,600 staff and 31 offices in 24 countries. For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com.
Press Contacts:
Rosemary Mount, Marketing/Intec Americas, +1 (404) 705 2982; Rosemary.mount@intecbilling.com
Sarah Webb/PR Manager, +44 1483 745800; sarah.webb@intecbilling.com
