Reliance Communications Expands Relationship With Intec To Transform Its Oss/bss For Next Generation Readiness

[Arun 795]

MarketWatch

8:34 a.m. EDT Sept. 3, 2008

Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next generation networks, announced today that Reliance Communications, India's leading integrated telecommunication company with one of India's largest subscriber base of over 55 million customers, has successfully upgraded its current Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView) installation to the latest version (6.0) and signed contracts for Intec's Content Partner Management solution. These additional capabilities are key enablers for the delivery of complex, content-oriented next-generation services.

"We have expanded our relationship with Intec because the flexibility, scalability and performance of Intec's billing technology has allowed Reliance Communication to grow at very high rates and gain business advantage within the highly competitive and fast-developing Indian market," said Mr. Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications. "This additional deployment will help us to further enhance our competitiveness in the telecommunications market, to bill and manage partner relationships more efficiently, and launch new next generation content services like DTH, IPTV and other value-added services."

The latest version of Intec's Convergent Billing solution (v6.0) provides operators with extended functionality, distributed architecture for increased scalability, improved efficiency of billing operations, and enhanced support for multi-national requirement. Intec's Content Partner Management (Intec CPM) solution will allow Reliance to manage partner agreements for content and value-added services more efficiently. For example, Intec CPM enables operators to accurately handle rating and revenue sharing with direct and indirect partners to support rapid and profitable deployment of next-generation products and services. It also ensures that partners are able to self-manage agreements and transactions via a web portal.

"Intec's technology, experience and capabilities in BSS/OSS will help us to seamlessly evolve our OSS/BSS architecture into the next generation through the rapid launch of innovative, cost-effective products and services to a huge and growing customer base," added Mr. Sumit Chowdhury.

Intec Vice President, Asia Pacific, Norm Halvorson concluded, "We are committed to helping our customers create strong competitive differentiation especially in new next generation business services. Intec is proud to support Reliance Communications in its delivery of high quality, next generation services to the rapidly expanding Indian market."