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opportunities and might be a good place for struggling companies to pick up some life-saving revenues, particularly in the rural areas where several parts of Eastern and Southern Africa have started up telecommunications projects that are geared towards connecting the rural areas into international networks.
As you probably know by now, there were two winners of the TM Forum Excellence Awards in Nice this year, NetCracker for the Best Practices Award – Supplier/System Integrator, and Chunghwa Telecom for the Best Practices Award – Service Provider. We followed up with each of them to hear what they had to say regarding the awards. NetCracker told us that “Winning the TM Forum Excellence Award is a great honor, andwe were especially pleased to learn that we were chosen by the Forum’s service provider members. The fact that we were chosen by our existing and prospective customers has immense significance to us.” As for Chunghwa Telecom, they told Pipeline a little bit about what led to winning the award
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by saying that they “initiated a 5-year NGOSS program in 2006 for BSS/OSS flexibility and OPEX saving and after 3 years of solid practice and realization, more than 70 BSS/OSS have been evolved towards NGOSS. Joe Chung-Hua Hu, Researcher for Chunghwa Telecom Labs said, ‘To meet the challenges in the era of convergence, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT)is figuring out how to provide an open platform of service delivery in managing digital media and content services. The TMF SDF program defines the framework that supports and integrates all functions required for the lifecycle of a service delivered to a Customer, across all stakeholders in a Service Provider environment. Following the progress of SDF, CHT has stepped forward with a powerful vision via the advanced program to empower current OSS architecture towards the changing service market.’”
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