Global Vision selects Subex Azure fraud management/revenue solutions

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Revenue & Billing; 24 September 2007; 10790 views

Subex Azure, a provider of Operations Support Systems solutions for telecom operators, has won contracts to provide Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance solutions for Global Vision Telecom in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to be deployed in its Prestel and U-COM Congo CDMA networks...

Subex Azure, a provider of Operations Support Systems (OSS) solutions for telecom operators, has won contracts to provide Fraud Management (FM) and Revenue Assurance (RA) solutions for Global Vision Telecom (GVT) in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be deployed in its Prestel and U-COM Congo CDMA networks.

Telecel International, which is managing the investments for Global Vision Telecom, owns Prestel and U-COM Congo. The company specialises in the design, installation and operation of emerging telecoms technology in developing countries.

After acquiring new mobile and unified licenses in DRC and Nigeria respectively, Global Vision Telecom was concerned about the high risks of fraud prevalent in the African telecoms market. It wanted to put a strategy in place to prevent network abuse for its growing subscriber bases, and validate its processes and ability to charge accurately from day one in these new regions.

Subex Azure will be deploying both its Nikira FM system and its Moneta RA system. Using rules-based alarms and artificial-intelligence driven pattern-matching to identify likely fraudulent usage, Nikira enables operators to detect known fraud types and patterns of unusual behaviour in all telecoms environments: wire-line (PSTN, ISP, VOIP), wireless (2G, 2.5G, 3G) and across all services (post-paid, prepaid, VAS, MMS, m-commerce). Moneta is a suite of automated revenue assurance tools and capabilities offering a set of pre-configured solution templates to address revenue assurance issues across areas such as service fulfillment, usage integrity, retail billing, interconnect/ wholesale billing and content settlement.

* Subex Azure’s mission is to empower telecom operators to achieve competitive advantage and deliver new service experiences to subscribers. The company's customers include 32 of the world's 50 largest telecom operators by revenue; it has more than 150 installations in over 60 countries. Subex Azure was named in the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2006 list of companies.

More info: