Contracts, Customer Services, Billing, Antigua, CLA: Converged billing is expected to become greatly simplified for the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA CPS) now that Redknee has been brought in to streamline APUA’s billing system. Based on a turnkey contract APUA can now look forward to offering innovative rates and incentives.

Contracts, Customer Services, Fixed, Mobile, Convergence, Billing, Philippines, Asia-Pacific: Completing the hat-trick of PLDT / Smart contracts is the selection of Comverse as provider of a billing platform for a highly comprehensive range of fixed, mobile and convergent services.

Contracts, NGN, Philippines, Asia-Pacific: Developing Telecoms has always been highly impressed by the rise and rise of telecoms in the Philippines. In that sense it came as no surprise to us to receive three recent reports relating to PLDT and demonstrating how advanced communications have become in this country. UTStarcom’s winning bid to deploy a next-generation-network leads our coverage...

Contracts, Mobile, SMS, Roaming, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, MENA, Asia-Pacific: Our second report this week on the Philippines looks at the problems faced by the huge number of Filipinos based overseas as they try to keep in touch with their friends and families based in their home country. Filipinos based in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can look forward to low-cost mobile communication resulting from Roamware’s new contract with PLDT subsidiary Smart Communications.

Contracts, 3G, Mobile, Romania, CEE: RCS & RDS, the Romanian fixed and greenfield mobile operator, has selected Nokia as its WCDMA 3G core and radio network supplier. The company looks forward to a quick entry into the Romanian 3G mobile market and, under the brand name Digi.Tel, to offer a wide range of services.

VoIP, Internet, CLA: DigiLinea, a VoIP infrastructure and service provider to the US Hispanic and Latin American markets, has announced that KDDI will use the DigiLinea US Hispanic/Latin American VoIP Enabler Platform to provide its clients worldwide with the availability of local DIDs from over 100 cities across Latin America as well as high-quality low-cost direct termination region-wide.

Contracts, Software, Yemen, MENA: Managed network growth and increased demand for voice and data services are two challenges facing an operator in Yemen. Optimi, which supplies customised planning, optimisation and monitoring solutions for new wireless technologies, has won the contract to supply software solutions to the problem.

Networks, IP, China, Asia-Pacific: China Mobile’s programme for attaining VoIP network migration in Shaanxi Province is now complete, thanks to softswitch solutions from Huawei. VoIP network migration has as its aim the optimisation of network structure, lower operating and maintenance costs, and an enriched end-user experience. The world’s first-ever large-scale All-IP transformation is the result.

IP Telephony, Convergence, Russia, CEE: ASVT, which delivers voice, data and video services to government, consumer and corporate markets in the Russian Federation, will be deploying Comverse’s MyCall Converged Telephony as well as its Converged IP Centrex. This will form part of ASVT’s long-term strategy to deliver IP-based multi-purpose communication bundles to consumers and enterprises.