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LAUREL, Md.—Sentori Inc. announced it will work with Siemens Netherlands to provide the Sentori 3G Billing and Customer Care software system for Belize Telecommunications Ltd.’s GSM/GPRS network. Sentori’s customer management …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to introduce a billing system enabling i-mode subscribers to make monthly payments at convenience stores using a two-dimensional bar code on the screens of their mobile …

CRACOW, Germany—ComArch S.A. has introduced its Tytan Mobile Portal, an addition to its TYTAN suite of products. Tytan Mobile Portal allows carriers and their partners to work on one platform, …

BEIJING—Despite an official ban, China Mobile’s subsidiary in southwestern Guizhou Province launched a trial run of a controversial calling-party-pays billing system. China is officially still using a two-way billing system, …

MANCHESTER, N.H.—Verizon Communications introduced its One-Bill consolidated billing service to residential customers in New Hampshire. The service allows customers to consolidate their local, wireless, high-speed Internet access, regional toll calling …

MINNEAPOLIS—ADC said that India’s Reliance Industries Ltd. has chose its convergent billing platform for its wireless, broadband, wireline and data services. Reliance plans to use SingleView’s customer, service and revenue …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—According to one of the United Kingdom’s largest cell-phone retailers, Carphone Warehouse, less than 1 percent of the 170,000 customers that purchased General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones …

AUSTIN, Texas—SchlumbergerSema and Compaq Computer Corp. jointly launched a customer care and billing solution that integrates advanced Storage Area Networks (SAN) technology, which offers mobile operators higher storage capacity and …

CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. announced it has signed a five-year billing and customer care contract to provide its Atlys billing product to PrimeCo Personal Communications to support PrimeCo’s digital wireless offerings. PrimeCo …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—After announcing its wireless initiative last week, BT Group said it is aware of the security concerns surrounding wireless local area network (WLAN) services. The company admitted it …

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Boingo Wireless Inc. said it has implemented Portal Software Inc.’s billing solution, known as Infranet, for mobile service providers. “Boingo developed its billing infrastructure with the Infranet solution, which …

GENEVA—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming exchanges (GRX) are rapidly emerging as a profitable new service niche in Europe and around the world, as mobile operators get serious about GPRS …

OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Cellular Systems completed deployment of equipment allowing it to offer voice-activated dialing services through Preferred Voice. Dobson said it would market the VoiceDial service, which will allow customers …

LONDON—Mobile operator MmO2 said it has signed a 10-year deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars to outsource IBM Corp.’s customer care software. According to the agreement, IBM will redesign, …

KIRKLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. signed a seven-year contract with Amdocs, St. Louis, for provision of a customer care and billing system, data center services and application support. “Amdocs was the …

LONDON—BT Group announced details of its wireless initiative, five months after spinning off its mobile subsidiary MmO2. BT plans to create a U.K. public wireless local area network and launch …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Network infrastructure company Tahoe Networks Inc. has announced partnerships with two companies to provide mobile data services for wireless operators. The two companies are Kabira Technologies Inc. and …

DALLAS—Smart card-enabled solutions provider Gemplus announced it will team with billing solutions company Telemac Corp. to integrate Telemac’s IMA-Module network-edge real-time billing software into Gemplus SIM card for wireless devices. …

LAUREL, Md.—EUR System announced it will add Sentori Inc.’s Sentori 3G’s wireless business solutions to the products and services offered in its outsourced data center environment. According to their agreement, …

BOSTON—Telecom Media Networks, an industry practice of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group, announced it has integrated Netonomy’s MyNetonomy e-Care and e-Commerce solution with Portal Software’s Infranet convergent billing …

ORLANDO—VeriSign was busy at CTIA Wireless 2002, making five announcements plugging new partnerships and services. First, VeriSign outlined its telecommunications strategy, since its acquisition of Illuminet Holdings Inc. and H.O. …

ORLANDO—Amdocs unveiled ClarifyCRM, its new end-to-end solution that offers integrated customer relationship management and billing applications to service providers, this week at CTIA Wireless 2002. Amdocs said the new CRM …

ORLANDO, Fla.—The Yankee Group and Sentori Inc. announced an emerging niche within the MVNO wireless market space during a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2002 earlier this week. The new …

ORLANDO, Fla.—Acterna released its AirAudit Call Verification System for GPRS, a product Acterna says is the industry’s first centrally managed, distributed solution for service verification on GPRS networks. The system …

BOCA RATON, Fla.—Wireless Internet communications provider JumpStart Wireless Corp. announced its DispatchSuite will be marketed by Skytel Communications Inc. through its Web site. DispatchSuite allows companies to integrate existing forms …