A new presentation by Openet reviews the how leading MNOs are "leverage the speed that LTE brings to create value for customers and generate more revenue".

Openet announced that "INWI, a leading Moroccan operator, has deployed Openet’s Policy Manager to successfully provide convergent policy control and advanced allowance management .. INWI has integrated Openet’s Policy Manager with its advanced Balance Manager and Offer Catalog solution to monetize and shorten time-to-market for innovative new use cases. 




These will include: 


the offer of ‘

Openet announced that it has "..virtualized its real-time charging system. This builds on the existing virtualization of Openet’s policy and mediation systems, its secure API gateway technology and its Fusionworks platform .. By fully virtualizing its BSS infrastructure, Openet will enable mobile operators to more rapidly monetise new capabilities including VoLTE QoS management, shared data plans

  
Openet announced that "Openet’s policy and charging control (PCC) solution for voice over LTE (VoLTE) services has been successfully deployed on multiple operator networks worldwide. The standards compliant PCC solution enables operators to configure policies and develop new charging and billing models for VoLTE service rollouts .. Demand for VoLTE services means virtualization will play a

A new "Policy Management Scorboard" (based on "direct feedback from service providers, market share data, and publicly available financial data") by Shira Levine [pictured], directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence, Infonetics Research ranks the 8 largest global vendors of policy management solutions: Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Ericsson, Huawei, Openet, Oracle, Juniper,

 
A recent research, conducted by Telecoms.com Intelligence (sponsored by Openet),  incorporates the input of more than 100 operators worldwide, finds that "truly flexible BSS solutions from specialty vendors are the best option to improve service and pricing innovation, multi-vendor interoperability and system flexibility ..  The survey highlighted key benefits of working with specialist BSS

Openet announced that it has "..entered into an OEM agreement with VoltDB [see "HP's PCC Uses VoltDB In-memory Database" - here] ..  As the telecom industry evolves to meet the ever-increasing demand for data, operators are increasingly expanding their investment in virtual environments, including within their Network Function Virtualization (NFV) initiatives. VoltDB expands Openet’s deployment

Sarah Reedy [pictured], Senior Editor, LightReading shows that despite the SDN/NFZ buzz, the great Capex saving are not yet there (at least for 2014).

"SDN and NFV have operators planning for lower capital expenditures, but that's not yet being reflected in their projections for 2014 .. AT&T [see "AT&T Expects SDN and NFV to Reduce Capex in 5 Years" - here], Verizon Wireless, Sprint and

  
Tata communications expands (or changes?) its hosted PCC/DPI offering (see "Tata Communications Builds Hosted Policy Management and Enforcement w/Allot and Openet" - here) with Tango's Telecom Policy Control Solution (as well as Procera's DPI - see Procera's CEO comments here).




Tango announced that "Tango Telecom and Tata Communications announced a collaboration to deliver hosted policy

Openet announced that ".. Orange Slovakia deployed Openet’s Policy and Charging Control (PCC) infrastructure to enable a major rollout of advanced shared data bundles. The deployment makes it possible for Orange Slovakia to quickly define segmented data offers, with associated balances, notifications and policy rules.

The Openet solution supports Orange Slovakia’s innovative new data plans

Infonetics Research shared some slides from the "Adding Value to the Network with Integrated Policy and Charging" webinar it held yesterday with CSG International, Openet and Oracle Communications.

The whole show is available here.


Top applications operators are able to offer using policy management. Join in now or on-demand:  







One example of many of how operators are using policy

A new report by Diane Myers [pictured], principal analyst, Infonetics Research on the Diameter Signaling Controllers (DSC) market forecasts that the ".. global Diameter signaling controller revenue to grow at a 54% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2018 .. Expected strong growth in the Diameter signaling controller (DSC) market is attracting vendors from varying backgrounds, from

AT&T plans for 1-800 data service have been materialized.

Some of my previous posts show us how the process of developing the new product evolved over two years:

[Feb 12]: AT&T Considers "1-800" Model for Mobile Data
[Jun '12]: AT&T CEO: 1-800 Data will "Catch Fire in the Next 12 Months"
[Dec '12]: AT&T Asks Subscribers about 1-800 Data Service 
[May '13]: AT&T 1-800 Maybe Based on

 
Procera Networks announced record-high revenues for Q3 ($21.3M, +33 Y/Y) bring it closer to Sandvine ($27.2M) and Allot Communications ($24.1M). The company also announced a new fixed Tier1 order (here) with parental control capabilities, and the selection of its DPI engine software, NAVL, by "4 leading technology companies for inclusion in their products" (here).




The 3 vendors total

Openet announced that a ".. Tier 1 North American wireless operator successfully deployed Openet Policy Manager in a virtualized environment to support 2G, 3G and 4G LTE networks. The deployment supports more than one million transactions per second and aligns with the operator’s goal to adopt architecture consistent with network functions virtualization (NFV). Openet has incorporated