Business News Americas | March 9, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Broadband data management company Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC) expects to deploy its policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for an additional six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (CALA) by midyear, Federico Navarro, Tekelec’s CALA sales VP, told BNamericas.
Tekelec’s PCRF is currently deployed for 44 service providers across 27 countries worldwide, reaching more than 280mn subscribers on networks of operators that includes Telefónica (NYSE: TEF).
The CALA region accounts for a third of that, with deployments in Paraguay, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
Consultancy Analysys Mason recently named Tekelec as the leading independent software vendor of policy management, which has become a US$382mn market worldwide and is forecast to grow to US$1.07bn by 2015.
Operators are now taking very seriously the notion that they have to be able to manage their networks if they are to deal with the “tsunami” of mobile data traffic that is coming, for which they need to implement policies.
Navarro, who attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, said 80% of his customer meetings were related to the PCRF solution and only 20% for Tekelec’s traditional business of number portability solutions.
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