Astrolink Selects PricewaterhouseCoopers to Help Develop Business Infrastructure.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001 PricewaterhouseCoopers brings extensive telecommunications start-up infrastructure development experience ASTROLINK International LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a global broadband telecommunications company See telecom company. , and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization, today announced that they have entered into a contract under which PricewaterhouseCoopers will assist Astrolink as it defines its operational support system (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) architecture. This architecture definition phase of the OSS project will enable Astrolink to lay the groundwork needed to implement a full-scale development of its business systems. "We are very excited to have PricewaterhouseCoopers work with us," said Steve Soroka, Astrolink vice president, operations. "We selected PricewaterhouseCoopers over approximately ten other vendors because of its successful list of telecommunications OSS implementations." "PricewaterhouseCoopers is pleased to have the opportunity to assist Astrolink on becoming a leading global provider of broadband services via the latest in satellite technology," stated Mark Buck, a Management Consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects Services partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who leads the Astrolink project. PricewaterhouseCoopers' New World Networks solution set is the result of a long collaboration with the world's leading hardware and software vendors to create an integrated, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that addresses important business and operations support systems--including order management, billing, customer care, provisioning, and trouble management for IP-based service providers. PricewaterhouseCoopers has designed this solution to enable its clients to support wireline, cable or wireless products and services. Globally, PricewaterhouseCoopers has helped more than 100 clients address their OSS needs. A dedicated project team from PricewaterhouseCoopers will reside on-site at Astrolink's headquarters until the project is completed. About Astrolink Astrolink is owned by Liberty Media, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Global Telecommunications, Telespazio, and TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc . Based in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from , Astrolink will build and operate a global telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. that leverages state-of-the-art satellite technology. Astrolink will focus on the high-growth area of broadband data services, carrying traffic for Internet, intranet, multimedia, and corporate data networks. Customers will install small satellite dishes at businesses to connect quickly and cost-effectively to high-speed networks. The service will be complementary and compatible with other broadband services like fiber optic transmission and fixed wireless technologies. Astrolink's web site is at www.astrolink.com. About PricewaterhouseCoopers The Management Consulting Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers helps clients maximize their business performance by integrating strategic change, process improvements and technology solutions. Through a worldwide network of skills and resources, consultants manage complex projects with global capabilities and local knowledge, from strategy through implementation. PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's largest professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance in an Internet-enabled world. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. Note to Editors: The name PricewaterhouseCoopers is one word, with upper case P, upper case C, and all other letters in lower case. |
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