Alestra - AT&T - Selects Lucent Technologies Billing Software Solution.Business/Technology Editors MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LU) today announced that Alestra, Mexico's leading provider of broadband, IP data and voice services and an AT&T subsidiary, has purchased Lucent's Arbor arbor Garden shelter providing privacy and partial protection from the weather, most commonly a lightweight, latticed framework (trellis) of wood or metal with interlaced branches of vines or climbing shrubs trained over it. (R)/BP billing platform, part of the Kenan(R) line of billing and customer care software. Alestra contracted with Lucent to deploy its Arbor/BP software, a fully functional, industry-leading, IP, 3G mobile and convergent billing system. The software is currently being implemented by Accenture, the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" and solutions, and Lucent's billing and customer care consulting services group. With its highly configurable and robust architecture, the Lucent Arbor/BP billing platform offers Alestra the ability to rapidly launch leading-edge services, customize services for individual customers and offer multiple services on a single invoice. "Alestra is operating in a highly competitive market, where flexibility and speed to market are crucial," said Charles Ydoate, Software Sales Director for Lucent Technologies Billing and Customer Care group in the Caribbean and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. region. "The proven performance and seamless scalability of the Lucent Arbor/BP and BILLDATS software will help Alestra continue to provide world-class services to its customers, thereby maintaining its competitive advantage in the Mexican market." Alestra has also recently upgraded their license for BILLDATS(R) Data Manager, a convergent multi-vendor software mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, platform from Lucent's Kenan line of software. BILLDATS Data Manager collects vital usage, content, and transaction data from Alestra's network; mediates the data; and rapidly distributes relevant data downstream for use in management applications. This new upgraded version of BILLDATS Data Manager also offers Alestra enhanced revenue assurance capabilities. "We needed a convergent billing solution capable of supporting Alestra's strategic direction as we continue to add new revenue-generating services to our portfolio. It also had to be flexible enough to drastically reduce the time to market for these new offers," said Ignacio Guzman, NextG Project Director at Alestra. "We felt Lucent's Arbor/BP software and BILLDATS Data Manager offered us the best solution to meet our needs both today and in the future." About Alestra ALESTRA is the leading Mexican telecommunications company See telecom company. , offering broadband and value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services, and the highest standards of telecommunications technologies. ALESTRA's network provides seamless access to AT&T's Worldwide Intelligent Network, which delivers over 250 million data and voice messages daily, to more than 280 countries and territories. ALESTRA is the first telecommunications company in Mexico to obtain the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9002 certification for all of its processes. For more information about Alestra, visit: www.att-alestra.com.mx About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
|
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion