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December 22, 2004
CPqD AND INFITEL JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER A WEALTH OF SOLUTIONS OF
CARRIERS IN THE AMERICAS
Relationship to Deliver Revenue-centric Services to
Pan-American Service Providers
(NIEUWEGEIN, THE NETHERLANDS/
Ft. LAUDERDALE, FL / CAMPINAS, BRAZIL
– December 22, 2004) - CPqD Technologies & Systems, Inc, (http://www.cpqdusa.com)
a leading provider of Operations and Business Support system and Infitel
International N.V, (www.infitel.com) a
leading provider of software solutions for network operators and service
providers have partnered to deliver next generation revenue-centric
solutions to telecommunications service providers across the Americas.
This strategic partnership is an important advance in Infitel’s
Pan-American expansion formerly announced in the media last month. CPqD’s
deep knowledge of network operators and service providers’ business and its
strong regional presence together with Infitel’s global partnership with
platform vendors such as Siemens, Ericsson, HP and Lucent brings together an
unparalleled level of expertise for the deployment of cost-efficient
value-added service solutions in the Americas.
Operators worldwide are pressed to deploy new revenue-centric services
but faced with complex implementations, excessive costs and long lead times.
Infitel’s rich solutions portfolio and powerful application environment
allows operators to launch new services in record time with the support of
well known vendors and first rate professional services organizations.
Infitel's Application Suite is a set of pre-configured and feature-rich
value-added services, including Pre-paid Solutions, Number Portability, Ring
Back Tone, Advanced Call Completion, Intelligent Call Routing, as well as a
set of multi-modal applications, representing a group of innovative next
generation services that exploit new technical and business model
possibilities. Offering dynamic flexibility, individual Infitel Application
Suite services can be combined and modified to create even more powerful
solutions that can be implemented easily and inexpensively.
“Our relationship with CPqD is strategic for several reasons,” said René
DeGreef, COO, Infitel N.V. “First, it solidifies our position as a player in
Latin America and the rest of the Americas. Second, we are now well
positioned to win business from carriers as a result of CPqD’s clearly
demonstrated excellence and longevity servicing telecommunications operators
in the Americas. Finally, our solution portfolio and application
development environment simultaneously bring the benefits of both IN and
next generation technologies like OSA/Parlay and SIP, coupled with CPqD’s
expertise delivers tremendous benefits to carriers across the Americas.”
As an Infitel partner, CPqD is a member of Infitel’s INSPIRE Program (Infitel's
Solution Partners for innovative, revenue generating applications), the aim
of which is for Infitel to deliver together with partners a wide range of
innovative applications for telecommunications carriers.
CPqD will establish a Latin American test bed and
center of excellence in demonstrating Infitel’s solutions, leveraging CPqD’s
integration capabilities. Each company will also create and manage test
environments using CPqD’s infrastructure and Infitel’s software as well as
develop a “train the trainer” program to capitalize on each company’s
specific strengths. Finally, each company will jointly develop, market and
deploy new applications, in addition to customizing and integrating existing
services.
“We are delighted to partner with Infitel,” said
Francisco Lopes, Technical Director, CPqD Technologies and Systems, Inc.
“Infitel’s understanding of the telecom space, its experience in
implementing advanced solutions for some of Europe's largest and most
demanding telecommunications service providers coupled with our know-how in
providing innovative solutions to the telecommunications industry will
deliver tangible value to our joint customers in the future. Most exciting
is that we are currently working on modeling scenarios where we customize
and support Infitel’s solutions, hugely beneficial to our clients.”
About CPqD
CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions specializes in business and operations support
system (BSS/OSS) products and services backed by more than 28 years of
research, development, and expertise. The company offers telecommunications
service providers a wide variety of quality products and integrated support
services, including billing, customer care, and order and transactions
management. CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions, which is headquartered in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, is a division of CPqD, a leading global technology
services provider to the telecommunications industry, founded and
headquartered in Brazil. Additional information is available at
www.cpqdusa.com.
About Infitel International N.V.
Infitel offers field-proven, comprehensive software
solutions, which enable Network Operators and Service Providers to improve
profits by providing cost-efficient value-added service solutions, capable
of integrating voice centric Telecommunication services with enterprise IT
applications. On the basis of open interfaces (e.g. OSA/Parlay, SIP)
Infitel`s solutions unlock the potential of new business models for fixed,
mobile and virtual network operators, service providers and third parties
offering innovative services. Infitel empowers its customers to fully
control their service offerings. This way Infitel serves the future-oriented
market of Infinite Networking, which revolves around reducing costs,
increasing efficiency and enhancing revenues as well as embracing new
business models and future network scenarios. Infitel was founded in 1998
and is headquartered in Nieuwegein,The Netherlands (NL)
For more
information contact:
Francisco Lopes, Technical Director
954-332-3695
business@cpqdusa.com |
