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be headed up by Stefano Pileri, and will be divided into four groups: Open Access, Network, Information Technology, and Technical Infrastructures.
AT&T Wireless has formed an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent where the latter would support the expansion of AT&T’s UMTS/HSPA wireless network. The companies say that the agreement will allow AT&T to “expand capacity while offering sophisticated next-generation services…” This is good news for Alcatel-Lucent, which started its relationship with AT&T per another agreement in 2004.
LapGreen, a company that offers telecom services in Uganda, Rwanda, Ivory Cost, and Niger, has chosen Lifetree Convergence Limited, a software company headquartered in Gurgaon-India, as a technology partner for its networks. The decision was made after researching at twelve different software vendors. Lifetree’s applications will first be deployed at Uganda Telecom Limited in Uganda.
The Commerce and Entertainment division at Amdocs took an opportunity at Mobile World Congress to introduce the Search and Digital Advertising solution, a new platform for mobile service providers that will offer personal advertising to the end user as a part
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Telecom Italia has reorganized its network infrastructure and technology to "... make the access network even more transparent.” |
of Amdocs Customer Experience Systems (CES.) It “integrates the Amdocs Search and Digital Advertising solution with the mobile commerce solutions of Amdocs Qpass to offer service providers new business models and revenue streams, such as ad-sponsored content.” “Combining our solutions into one ecosystem helps service providers offer a more cohesive and personalized experience for their customers without heavy investments in negotiating digital commerce relationships,” said Charles Born, vice president of corporate communications for Amdocs, in a press release.
Neural Technologies, a fraud and risk management solutions company, along with T-Systems North America, have been contracted by T-Mobile USA for the Minotaur™ risk management tool. “T-Mobile will use the fraud management solution to automate many manual processes with state-of –the-art detection methods to react even quicker to potential fraud events,” says the press release. According to Scott Hines, VP of Sales, Industry Line Telecommunications at T-Systems North America, Minotaur™ is scalable to all levels of systems. Hopefully, an implementation such as this will help keep costs, and anxiety levels, down for T-Mobile customers.
Congress has finally made the Do Not Call list permanent. Telephone consumers had to previously renew their wishes to avoid telemarketers every four years but, as of February, 2008, that is no longer the case. Let me be the first to cheer. Hurrah!
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