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20th January 2005 - Teleglobe International Holdings
Ltd, a leading provider of international telecommunications
services to mobile and fixed operators and Internet
service providers, today announced the launch of its
Managed Roaming which offers worldwide GSM mobile carriers
the ability to intelligently assign their outbound roamers
onto preferred visited networks. This innovative application
was developed jointly with XIUS, a leading mobile infrastructure
applications developer.
Managed Roaming is the first of several hosted application
services that Teleglobe and XIUS are partnering to provide
to mobile operators on a worldwide basis. Managed Roaming
enables the home network GSM operator to assign a traveling
subscriber onto a specific visited network. The home
network operator may specify the visited network that
provides the best delivery of the home network suite
of services (improving the customer experience and increasing
use of these services) and also that provides preferred
tariff terms for roaming (contributing to better average
margin per user, or AMPU).
"With maturing mobile penetration in many markets,
roaming has a growing impact on operators' revenues.
Operators have renewed interest in lucrative services
such as roaming; pressure is building to offer competitive
roaming offerings both in terms of quality and rates,"
said Stephane Brisebois, Teleglobe's General Manager
of Signaling Services. "Until now, the ability
of the home network operator to assign their traveling
subscriber onto the most appropriate visited network
has been very limited. Managed Roaming provides the
mobile operator with the alternative of a hosted application
that allows them to actively match their traveling subscriber
to the network that has the best match of services,
quality of service, and roaming financial arrangements."
The Managed Roaming application runs on a platform
that is centrally located on Teleglobe's premises, allowing
the home network operator to rely on a service rather
than investing in a system of its own. The operator
remains in full control as he remotely manages traveling
subscribers' registration onto preferred visited networks
via a secure web-based interface to Teleglobe's Managed
Roaming application.
"This is a first of several AMPU-enhancing hosted
application services that XIUS is deploying with Teleglobe
in an exclusive manner. The Managed Roaming Solution
will result in an instant and significant increase in
operators' roaming revenue and profitability, while
providing better services to traveling subscribers,"
said GV Kumar, Managing Director and CEO of XIUS.
"Teleglobe's Managed Roaming gives mobile operators
the ability to offer their subscribers a better grade
of roaming services, enabling operators to actively
manage costs for improved margins and lower prices,"
said Robert Rosenberg, President, Insight Research Corp.
"As a hosted service, this type of Managed Roaming
service does not require any incremental investment
on the part of the operator or the subscriber, so it's
a win-win. Because it does not require any special programming
of SIMs, or new home network equipment to support, operators
have little if any incremental operating expenses, which
makes it attractive to mobile carriers of any size."
Managed Roaming and other hosted offerings to follow
build upon Teleglobe's current signaling services to
over 400 GSM operators worldwide, and uses a well-proven
highly reliable signaling network that spans over 225
countries. Teleglobe hosts the Managed Roaming application
on a rigorously managed, fault tolerant, scalable and
open signaling architecture. The service offers the
flexibility to either a single mobile operator or a
group of operators (e.g. regional alliances or consortia)
to apply visited network preference plans on a location-specific
basis - by country, region, state or city.
Combined with Teleglobe's existing SCCP service for
international SS7 transport and routing management between
mobile networks and the Wireless Global Roaming (WGR)
service for SS7 ITU/ANSI conversion, Managed Roaming
provides the customer with a complete integrated roaming
solution for best service scalability, reliability and
costs.
About Teleglobe
Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd is a leading provider
of international voice, data, Internet and mobile roaming
services with over 50 years of industry expertise in
international telecommunications. Teleglobe became a
public company trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol
TLGB with the acquisition of Voice over IP (VoIP) network
leader ITXC Corp. on June 1, 2004.
Teleglobe owns and operates one of the worlds most
extensive telecommunications networks, reaching over
240 countries and territories with advanced voice, mobile,
and data services. Teleglobe is the carrier of choice
to more than 1,200 wholesale customers representing
the world's leading telecommunications, mobile operators
and Internet service providers.
Carrying over 11 billion minutes per year, and a significant
portion of the world's Internet traffic, Teleglobe's
network is consistently ranked among the most robust
and reliable, performing at the high end of industry
standards. Detailed information about Teleglobe is available
on the company's web site at www.teleglobe.com.
About XIUS
XIUS (www.xius.org) is a leading provider of real-time
authentication, authorization and billing solutions
to mobile carriers. XIUS has developed, filed commercially
launched several wireless IPRs including its patent-pending
platform called the Wireless Intelligent Services Engine
(WISE), an advanced mobile services platform that uniquely
combines signaling and real-time rating technologies
to enable multiple mobile services.
The WISE platform provides carriers with advanced revenue
creating and real-billing capabilities, including global
prepaid cellular roaming. XIUS' solutions are now deployed
in more than 22 major wireless networks in Asia, the
Middle East and Russia. XIUS has been merged with Megasoft
(www.megasoft.com), a global provider of outsourced
software development services.
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