www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comverse today announced that GTEL Mobile, a new mobile operator in Vietnam, has deployed the Comverse® ONE™ Billing & Active Customer Management™ solution, a converged billing system that will help differentiate the operator from other telecom providers by offering flexible billing models and a 360-degree view of the customer, regardless of touch point.

Established last July, GTEL Mobile is a joint venture between Vietnam’s GTEL Corporation and VimpelCom (NYSE: VIP), the leading provider of telecommunications services in Eastern Europe. Vietnam’s telecommunications industry recently has been growing at 20 to 25 percent annually, with more than 50 million mobile service users.
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comverse announced today that Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, has launched the ComverseONE Billing and Active Customer Management™ solution to support prepaid and postpaid subscribers and roll out bundled multi-play service offerings.
Sotelco, whose majority owner is VimpelCom Group (NYSE: VIP), also will implement Comverse’s voice and messaging services from the Comverse HUB, including SMS, MMS, ringback tones, call completion services, and management of mobile data services.

“The commercial start under the Beeline brand in Cambodia is an important stage in the international development of VimpelCom following our success in Russia and CIS,” said Vladimir Riabokon, Executive Vice-President, VimpelCom. “Following the successful deployment of Comverse ONE at Sotelco, we strongly consider the opportunity to work with Comverse to expand this platform to additional affiliates and markets in the region.” Comverse ONE Billing and Active Customer Management is a comprehensive Business Support System (BSS) solution that saves operators time and money because convergent billing, order management and customer management are built around the same data model, thereby removing integration points and speeding deployment times. This approach allows operators to support new business models, and is scalable to meet evolving business needs and phased transformation goals. (more…)