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Intec Appoints Kallol Hazra as New India Managing Director
The World’s Leading Broadband Decision-Makers Sign Up for BroadBand World Forum 2010
Global mobile data market to be worth US$340 billion by 2014
Chile’s Entel Selects Intec InterconnecT Suite
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Intec Appoints Kallol Hazra as New India Managing Director
Intec, one of the world’s leading providers of Business Support System (BSS) solutions, has announced the appointment of Kallol Hazra as Managing Director for Intec India; Kallol also joins the Intec India Board with immediate effect. Tasked with supporting growth for Intec and the delivery of market-leading end-to-end solutions for the company’s global customer base, Kallol heads up a team of highly skilled professional services consultants based in locations across Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. He joins the company at a time when the Indian telecoms market is witnessing significant growth.
A technology industry veteran with over 25 years experience, Kallol joins Intec from HP India where his last assignment was as Director of Application Services, in HP’s Enterprise Services Business (formerly EDS). Kallol and his team were responsible for multi-sector solution implementations from communications, media and entertainment to utilities, manufacturing and financial services, conceptualising, creating and delivering solutions using HP and partner IPs to solve customers’ business problems.
“I am very excited to have the opportunity to drive Intec’s market-leading BSS solutions as the market takes unprecedented steps forward,” commented Kallol. “Alongside a highly skilled team, of great integrity, Intec is in a very strong position to capitalise on the exciting market growth opportunities and I look forward to playing a key role in the company’s global development.”
“Kallol joins Intec with exceptional industry experience, which will prove a significant asset to Intec, customers and partners alike,” said Reece Donovan, President of Global Services for Intec. “Intec is well known and trusted both in the region, and globally, and our powerful and sophisticated BSS solutions are more relevant than ever before, for incumbents and new market entrants, looking to leverage new communication technologies and embrace new service offerings for profitable growth.”
Kallol undertook a number of roles in the combined entity of Compaq, HP and EDS for the last 14 years including technical support, sales, solution marketing and business development. He has also held positions with Tata IBM, Pertech Computers Ltd and PSI Data Systems India. Kallol has a Bachelors Degree in Technology and a Management Diploma and lives in Bangalore, with his wife and two sons.
Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world’s top 100 telecoms operators, with a vision to become the world’s most trusted supplier of BSS (Business Support Systems) solutions.
Intec’s many customers include AT&T, Aircel, Antel, Bharti, Cable & Wireless, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, Reliance, Talk Talk, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Verizon.
Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been with Intec since its inception, to provide the highest standards of performance, flexibility and robustness to help operators service their customers effectively and profitably.
Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has over 1,600 staff and a presence in 24 countries. For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com
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The World’s Leading Broadband Decision-Makers Sign Up for BroadBand World Forum 2010
The world’s largest broadband event – the Broadband World Forum 2010 – has this week unveiled its enhanced conference programme and released delegate passes for its biggest show yet.
The Broadband World Forum 2010 (26-28 October at CNIT, La Defense in Paris, France) will this year feature more than 200 leading industry speakers, including 125 global service providers, from around the world addressing over 6,000 attendees across four new tracks covering transport, intelligence, access and services.
The start of each day will see a series of keynote sessions run by global executives from operator and vendor companies worldwide covering the latest innovations in the broadband industry including Who pays? The new economic model for broadband, Broadband: Changing lives and Services in the cloud. This year’s keynote line-up includes:
• Oliver Baujard, Deutsche Telekom
• Dr. Choi Doo Whan, KT
• Virginia P. Ruesterholz, Verizon
• Thierry Bonhomme, Orange France Telecom Group
• Dr Shyue-Ching Lu, Chungwa Telecom
• George Nazi, BT
• Mike Quigley, National Broadband Network
• Lord Stephen Carter, Alcatel-Lucent
• Ashish Chowdhary, Nokia Siemens Networks
• Johan Bergendahl, Ericsson
• Matt Bross, Huawei
• Ms Chen Jie, ZTE Corporation
• Adolfo Hernandez, Alcatel-Lucent
• Stefan Dyckerhoff, Juniper Networks
Plus there will be an exclusive invitation-only Executive Leadership Summit and a half-day Broadband High Growth Markets seminar featuring contributors from across Europe, Asia and Africa.
Gavin Whitechurch, research director at Informa Telecoms & Media, commented: “This year’s enhanced event programme is set to make Broadband World Forum a truly global event. Our provisional agenda has already attracted high levels of interest from potential delegates and our exhibition is 80 per cent sold or reserved.
“Attendee figures are tracking well above previous years, and we hope that this exceptional level of early interest, along with the unrivalled speaker and exhibitor line up, will attract a record number of visitors to secure our place as the number one broadband show and establish us as the leading global telecommunications event.”
Broadband World Forum is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary and has long been established as the place to meet and discuss the commercial and technical opportunities, developments and issues surrounding broadband. The new conference structure for 2010 is in response to delegate feedback and now features analyst breakfast briefings, more keynote sessions, a choice of four conference tracks and a world-class exhibition including 280 companies. In addition the Broadband InfoVision Awards will now be presented during a full gala dinner cruise on the evening of day one.
To view the full event programme and register for the conference, visit the Broadband World Forum website at www.broadbandworldforum.com or call +44 (0)20 7017 5506.
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Global mobile data market to be worth US$340 billion by 2014
Emerging markets will be the key driver in the growth of global mobile value-added-service (VAS)* revenues from $200 billion in 2009 to $340 billion in 2014, according to new research from Informa Telecoms & Media. China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine are expected to account for 36 per cent of the global mobile data revenues in 2014.
“Compared to the developed world, there are very different economic, social, demographic and cultural challenges in the emerging markets. In many countries, 3G services are still not available, or are limited to mobile subscribers in larger cities. Therefore operators have to depend on 2G services such as SMS, USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems, to be able to drive mass market adoption of their mobile value-added-services, and to successfully reach subscribers in smaller towns and rural areas,” according to Shailendra Pandey, senior analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media.
Mobile operators and service providers in emerging markets have, in many respects, been more innovative and proactive in developing and deploying new mobile VAS than their counterparts in the developed world. In particular, operators are seeing strong uptake of utility type services including mobile payments, P2P funds transfer and agricultural information services. The reason being that these services are having a big impact on the day-to-day lives of the local population and are contributing to the social and economic development of the population in these markets. Services such as M-PESA from Safaricom in Kenya, the Rural Information Service from China Mobile, the “Please Call Me” service from MTN in South Africa, and the “CellBazaar” service from GrameenPhone in Bangladesh are some good examples.
Mobile social networking is beginning to see strong growth in emerging markets but most of the services are instant messaging chat applications. One of the most successful service examples is China Mobile’s IM service called Fetion, which has over 100 million registered users. The addressable market for the Fetion service is large as it can work using IVR, GPRS and SMS access modes.
Mobile app stores have so far not received the same attention from the operators in emerging markets as they have in the US and Western Europe but some large operators like China Mobile have already launched – or are considering launching – their own app stores. Earlier this year,China Mobile has collaborated with Nokia to launch a joint mobile app store “MM-Ovi” and it has been reported that over 4 million mobile apps had been downloaded from this app store by March 2010.
With high market saturation and limited growth prospects in developed countries, the emerging markets with a high growth potential are becoming a key focus for mobile industry players including operators, handset manufacturers and infrastructure vendors, as well as the VAS platform and technology vendors.
Informa’s research on the Mobile VAS market is available to its Intelligence Centre clients and from its on-line research store www.informatm.com/mobileservices
*Informa Telecoms & Media defines mobile VAS as all mobile services apart from voice calls.
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Chile’s Entel Selects Intec InterconnecT Suite
Intec, a global provider of business support systems (BSS) solutions, today announced the selection and implementation of its InterconnecT settlement suite of products by Entel PCS, one of the largest mobile service providers in the Chilean market, to streamline its operational processes across its business, thus improving its time to market and revenue as well as visibility and control. Entel PCS will take advantage of the solution’s availability on low-cost commodity hardware to further lower the cost of its operations.
“The Intec solution brings us a reliable and flexible system for expanding our operations and easily addressing the challenges of the forthcoming number portability requirements. Intec offers a proven solution that enables us to bridge our interconnection operations with other areas of our business,” said Robinson Luengo, Entel Financial and Interconnection Manager. “Intec understands the challenges and requirements for business growth and maximising revenues from interconnect agreements as evidenced by similar implementations throughout Latin America.”
Entel PCS, which has more than a 38% market share in Chile with double digit subscriber growth, provides mobile communications service throughout Chile. The selection of Intec’s solution, which in addition to the InterconnecT settlement core, includes InterconnecT Prep for EDR pre-processing, Automated Reconciliation Manager and Financial Manager, will allow the wireless operator to compete more effectively against its competition.
“With the Intec InterconnecT suite Entel PCS is able to substantially reduce its manual processes, speed its reconciliation with partners for faster time to revenue, and easily configure new partner agreements for enhanced service offerings. Entel will also be able to view its interconnect business and value-added services in a holistic fashion through reporting, providing added visibility and control for enabling better business decisions,” said Ian Watterson, Intec VP Americas. “Entel PCS is a strong addition to Intec’s Chilean and regional customer base, and we look forward to helping them grow their business.”
Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world’s top 100 telecoms operators, with a vision to become the world’s most trusted supplier of BSS (Business Support Systems) solutions.
Intec’s many customers include AT&T, Aircel, Antel, Bharti, Cable & Wireless, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, Reliance, Talk Talk, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Verizon.
Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been with Intec since its inception, to provide the highest standards of performance, flexibility and robustness to help operators service their customers effectively and profitably.
Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has over 1,600 staff and a presence in 24 countries. For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com.
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