BT Chooses Amdocs For Global Mobile Portal Billing And Customer Management.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Amdocs' Solect Division will deploy IAF (Internet Application Framework) A suite of software development technologies from Ross Systems, Inc., Atlanta, GA (www.rossinc.com) that is the backbone of its iRenaissance Suite. Meta-data driven, IAF comprises a . Horizon to support and manage the BT Global Mobile Portal advanced mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. offering Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ), the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions for communications and Internet services, announced today that BT Global Mobile Portal will deploy IAF Horizon as the IP billing and customer care platform to manage its extended offering of IP services for its mobile subscribers. The BT Global Mobile Portal is one of the world's leading Mobile Service Providers with fixed and mobile Internet access, giving consumers the ability to access content and services from any device. The enhanced functionality of IAF Horizon for mobile IP services allows BT Global Mobile Portal to leverage profitable new business models such as revenue sharing revenue sharing Funding arrangement in which one government unit grants a portion of its tax income to another government unit. For example, provinces or states may share revenue with local governments, or national governments may share revenue with provinces or states. , sponsored services and m-commerce. The BT Global Mobile Portal project follows the successful deployment of IAF Horizon by Amdocs' Solect division for BT's ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. lines of business. "We choose IAF Horizon because its capabilities are clearly aimed at the emerging challenges and business models presented in mobile data and m-commerce," said Kent Thexton, President, BT Global Mobile Portal. "Amdocs' rapid deployment methodology and the ability to support the complexity of new network and service interfaces as well as features such as advanced revenue sharing and service sponsorship demonstrate Amdocs' leadership in mobile IP customer care and billing." "We view BT as a strategic customer, and are very pleased to have been chosen as a Mobile IP CC&B vendor for this initiative," said Paul Atkinson paul atkinson worst kick in the comp. Paul Atkinson was an English confessor for the Catholic faith. He is also an inhabitant of Thornton Dale. External link
About BT Global Mobile Internet BT Global Mobile Internet (GMI GMI Governance Metrics International (New York, New York) GMI Giant Magneto-Impedance GMI Global MSF Interoperability GMI General Motors Institute GMI General Mills, Inc. ) is the Mobile Internet division of BT Openworld. It delivers complete mobile Internet access solutions to network operators around the world. Since 1999, BT GMI is the UK's Mobile Internet market leader, launching first the UK's first free access Mobile Internet Service Provider - Genie Internet (www.genie.co.uk) and then with BT Cellnet the UK's first Mobile Internet Phone - the first working, commercial WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. (Wireless Application Protocol) pre-pay service in the UK. Genie Internet is now one of the UK's top ten ISPs with in excess of 1 million registrations. The BT GMI platform has been developed with some of the world biggest names - Microsoft, Phone.com and LookSmart are core technology partners. Content partners include The Street.com, Agence France Presse, Eclipse Sports, Sports.com, Travelocity, Lastminute.com, PR Newswire Europe, Excite, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, European Investor.com, and eSignal.com. BT GMI is currently developing a mass-market global portal, applications and solutions in collaboration with national operator partners - SmarTone (Hong Kong), Telfort (The Netherlands), Viag Interkom (Germany) and StarHub (Singapore), among others. For more information visit the website at www.genie.co.uk About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leader in customer care and billing systems for communications and Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . Amdocs has an unparalleled success record in project delivery of its mission-critical products. With over 6,500 information systems professionals deployed worldwide, Amdocs supports a global customer base. In April 2000, Amdocs completed the acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a leading provider of customer care and billing systems for IP service providers. For more information visit our Web site at www.amdocs.com Amdocs is first to market with customer care and billing solutions for mobile IP. Amdocs supports advanced mobile IP functionality, helping mobile service providers (MSPs) move first with revenue sharing, sponsored services and mCommerce. The breadth of Amdocs' CC&B offerings allows MSPs to adopt the mobile IP business model best suited to their needs. Amdocs offers IAF Horizon for standalone or hybrid operations, integrated with the MSP's existing CC&B solution. Amdocs' Ensemble product, which is installed at leading mobile carriers worldwide, is being deployed to support the rollout of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and WAP services in convergent voice-IP environments. Nokia has also embedded the IAF Horizon platform into the Nokia Charging Center for GPRS and has committed to working with Amdocs in a combined effort to deliver industry-leading solutions. About IAF Horizon Amdocs' Solect division has over seventy installations of IAF Horizon worldwide. The IAF Horizon billing, rating, customer care and service management solution provides a flexible platform for defining and registering new services quickly and easily, with no coding delays or downtime. It enables service providers to create differentiated service offerings with complex rating rules through its rule based rating engine. Customer touch-points, including invoicing and Web-based self-care, can be readily branded to support a service provider's wholesale or Virtual ISP (VISP VISP Virtual Internet Service Provider VISP Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention Trial VISP Video Imagery Standards Profile VISP Visual Information Systems Program ) model on a single platform, while maintaining the integrity of the individual brand. Customers include BT, Broadwing's ZoomTown, Cablecom, E-Plus, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , PointOne, Puerto Rico Telephone Company Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT), is the largest Puerto Rican telecommunications services company. It is headquartered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and has operated for almost a century offering voice, data, long distance, broadband, directory publishing and wireless services for the (PRTC PRTC Puerto Rico Telephone Company PRTC Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos (El Salvador) PRTC PEPSU Road Transport Corporation (India) PRTC Potomac River Transportation Company .net), Tele Danmark, ThinkLink, and Saritel (Telecom Italia). About IAF Horizon For Mobile IP The Solect Division's IAF Horizon for mobile IP provides a service management and CCB CCB Calcium channel blocker, see there infrastructure that allows MSPs to set up different business models such as: -- Sponsored Services - MSPs can set up services to be sponsored by third parties realizing revenues from the sponsors and/or subscribers. Services can be sponsored to support advertiser-consumer and employer-employee sponsorship models. -- Revenue Sharing - MSPs will deliver Internet content and applications such as financial, travel, news and entertainment information by partnering with the appropriate content/application providers who will want to be reimbursed accordingly. MSPs will require the functionality to `share' the revenue collected from a mobile subscriber for use of these services. -- mCommerce - MSPs will enable mCommerce by providing the mobile connectivity to eShops. MSPs will require the functionality to collect money from mCommerce transactions and then allocate these monies across the various parties involved to ensure they are truly integrated in the mCommerce value chain. The IAF Horizon service management features enable management of bundled mobile IP offerings, such as IPaccess (GPRS, EDGE, CDMA-1x), e-mail, Internet/Intranet access and WAP-based content and value-added services. The rule-based rating engine supports sophisticated billing plans and its inherent flexibility accommodates rating on any service attribute in a carrier grade environment. |
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