December 2014 GCCM Magazine

December 2014

Global ClubMobile · Voice · Data

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With the Season‘s Greetings & Best Wishes for the New Year from the Carrier Community Team

Synergy & Connectivi ty

To Serve and to Connect

Thank You to 2014 GCCM Official Sponsors

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Content

7 2014 GCCM Events’ Statistics

4 Carrier Community press release

5 2014 GCCM Atendees

21 Companies’ Profiles

14 Industry News

Main contact:

T: +41 (0) 31 544 21 31Marktstrasse 10, 6060 Sarnen, SwitzerlandE: [email protected]: www.carriercommunity.com

© Carrier Community 2014

8 2014 GCCM Events’ Images

9 Thank You to our 2014 GCCM’s Guest Speakers

11 Metaswitch press release

14 Industry news

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Carrier Community Press Release

Carrier Community Carrier Community Launches Carrier-Exclusive Meetings in Brazil and South AfricaAfter a record-breaking year for attendance, Global Carrier Community Meetings are expanding in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America

Sarnen, Switzerland – December 15, 2014 – Carrier Community, an exclusive global industry-networking platform for telecom carriers and service providers,, is pleased to announce the launch of two annual Global Carrier Community Meeting (GCCM) events in Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro in 2015. These events will serve its growing membership in these regions and provide local and international carriers with a carrier-exclusive platform to meet, network, and do business.

Carrier Community has seen tremendous growth in 2014 and these newly launched events will continue to cater to the needs of its more than 3,400 members representing 1500+ operators from 130+ countries. It has added 400 members over recent months and is set to continue its growth with these new events.

Global Carrier Community Meetings 2015:

•February 9 & 10 - London 2015 GCCM•March 9 & 10 - Dubai 2015 GCCM•June 1 & 2 - Singapore 2015 GCCM •June 29 & 30 - Berlin 2015 GCCM•October 22 & 23- Rio de Janeiro GCCM•November 16 & 17 - Cape Town GCCM

In 2015, Carrier Community will welcome SMS, Value Added Service Providers and Mobile operators to join the platform and interact with its existing members both online and at the annual GCCM conferences. Each of the GCCM conferences will also host dedicated voice, data, SMS and mobile areas to give its members direct access to customers and facilitate new business opportunities.

Carrier Community will also launch its own apps for GCCM events and an event Magazine in 2015. It is continually updating its Online Meeting Planner

to add new features and further help members to meet each other and have meaningful business conversations.

To become a member of Carrier Community, please visit www.carriercommunity.com

To find out more GCCMs around the world, please visitcarriercommunityevents.com

About Carrier Community

Carrier Community is an exclusive global club for telecom carriers and service providers. It was founded as a central platform to enhance business opportunities across the industry’s various sectors and services. Community founders believe that the voluntary free exchange of contacts and information via a central portal as well

as organised annual networking events are core to the creation of new business opportunities in order to help the world become more connected. Carrier Community offers the industry a meeting place where members from voice, data, mobile, sms, vas, datacentres and other related segments can get together and share ideas, contacts and business information for the mutual benefit of all members. It hosts annual networking events throughout the year such as Global Carrier Community Meetings (GCCM) in London, Dubai, Singapore, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town as well as the European Network Planning Meeting (ENPM).

The Carrier Community has qualified more than 3,400 members since its inception representing 1,500+ Operators from more than 130+ countries. Our members occupy C-Level, VP, Director and Manager Positions at incumbent, mobile and alternative operators.

www.carriercommunity.com

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Thank You

• 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd• 1World Telecommunications Pte Ltd.• 25th Century Tecchnologies Ltd• 2sms.com• 3G Telekom• 3U TELECOM GmbH• 42com Telecommunication GmbH• 4Plus• 9Eons Ltd• A Telco• A1 Telekom Austria AG• Abul Khair Ali Trading L.L.C.• Acasia Communications Sdn Bhd• AceCom Networks Pte Ltd• Acme Tel FZC UAE• Afinna One• AGCS Asia Ltd.• Agile Telecom S.p.A.• Aicent Inc.• AIMS Data Centre Sdn Bhd• Air Fast Network Solution and Provider• Air Voice Technologies• Air21Group• Aircel• Airtel• Akamai Technologies• Akton d.o.o.• Alarislabs• Altavoip Spain• Amazon• Amicus Universal Pte. Ltd• AMS-IX• Anycall Telecom Network (HK) Company Ltd.• Apelby Communications• Arcadia Communication Private Limited• ArribaCom• Ascend Networks Pte. Ltd.• Ashan Telecom (HK) Ltd• Asia Telecom Ltd• at&t• Atlas Interactive Ltd• ATM S.A.• atms Telefon-und Marketing Services GmbH• audiotel-it.com• AussieSim• AVATIA Ltd.• Awantel GmbH• Bangladesh International Gateway (BIG) Ltd• Bankai Group• Bayan Telecommunications Inc.• BCE Nexxia• Beeline• Beepsend AB• Bell Canada• Beox• Bermat Inc.• Bezeq International• BFT Telecom• BH Telecom JSC Sarajevo• Bhaoo Pvt Ltd• Bharti Airtel Ltd• BICS• Bistalk Telecom AG• Blueberry Telecom• Bright Telecom• Brilliant Telecom• Brodynt Global Services• BT (GTM)• BTS• C2N Exchange Inc.• C3 Call / VNPT-GS• C-4 Systems Ltd• Cablenet

• Call Rwanda• CallPlus Wholesale• Callvox• Canada Node Inc.• Capital City Service Ltd.• Cascade Telecom• CAT• Cataleya Pte Ltd• Caucasus Online• Cel Telecom • Celcom• Centavo Pvt Ltd.• CenturyLink• China Mobile• China Skyline Telecom C.,Ltd• China Telecom• China Unicom• ChinaSkyline• Chunghwa Telecom• Chunghwa Telecom Singapore Pte Ltd.• Cideas GmbH• Cima Telecom Group• CITIC Telecom CPC• Clauditalia Communications S.p.A.• Clear Business Operations• Cloud2Tel• CLOUDMARK• CLX Networks• Colt• Columbus Networks USA Inc.• COMdata• Commune Solutions• Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau• Compute Galaxy Sdb. Bhd• Comunica-it-services SA• Condor Telecom• Confiartech Ltd• Connection Software• Cordial Communications• Core3 Networks Pvt Ltd.• CPH Group• CreativeCell Technology• CreaVision Int. Co., Ltd.• CRNOGORSKI Telekom A.D.• Croatian Telecom• Cypress Telecom Ltd.• Cyta• D Telecom Srl• Dee Telecom Holdings HK Ltd.• Deutsche Telekom• Dialogic• Dialogue Communications Ltd• DiGi Telecommunications• Digital Reality• Digitalk• Digitek Global• Dimotel• DNSNIC• docomo• Dtac TriNet Co., Ltd.• Du• Dusit Buncha Corporation• Dynmark International Ltd• EasyTalk Communications LLC• ECO Networks• Ecocarrier Inc• Ecotel Communication • Egypt Telecom • Elisa• EmergenceVoice Ltd• Encore Telecom• Enter Srl• Epsilon Telecommunications

• Equinix• Eser Telecom• Etisalat• euNetworks• Euroweb Romania• Eutelsat UK Limited• EVOX Trading• Exatel S.A.• Excila Telecom• Expereo • FASTtelco • First Communications • First Technology Development• Fizan Telecom• Flames Group SIA• FL-Connect • FOCUS TELECOM SL• Fortis Communications• Fortytwo Telecom• FPT• Gaharu Telecom• Gardenia Telco • GasLINE GmbH & Co. KG• GEMAXX Communications • Gencom Technologies Ltd• Get A Call Pte Ltd• Ghost Telecom Ltd• Gibtele.com• Gilat Satcom • GLM Telecom• Global A2Z Pte Ltd.• Global Streams, Inc.• Global Transit• Global Voice Telecom Ltd• Globalringer Inc• Globe Telecom• Globe Teleservices • Glory Technology (HK) Group Ltd• Gobal Cloud Exchange• Gramintel |STM Telecom Sanchar • GTS Central Europe• H J Technology LTD• Hamid Sourcing Ltd• HAWE Telekom Sp. z o.o.• Heer Teleservices Ltd • HGC• HiFi Comunicacion SL• Hilf Telecom BV• Himco Technology (Ptv) Ltd.• HKT Limited• Hoover Tel• Hornbill Telecom LTD• HTS Ltd.• Hurricane Electric• Hutchison Global Communications• iBasis KPN• iCom Voice Ltd• ICON Global Services Ltd• iCX Europe Limited• IDD Telecom Pte Ltd• IDT• Inaani Pte Ltd.• Indigo11 Services Limited• Indosat• InfomAge• INFO-Telecom• Inmarsat plc.• Innovia Contact Center• InterCONNECT• International Access Pte Ltd.• Internet Mobile Communications• Interoute• Interxion

• IP Telecom Pte. Ltd.• Ipage Telecom• IPBtel• IPtelecom SG • IPVOIP s.r.o.• iQsim• Iristel Inc• Itell Communication Corp• ITIP LTD• iVoice Networks• IVS TECH (M) SDN Bhd.• IX Reach• Janacom Ltd• Japan Telecom• Jazzcom PLC• JAZZTEL• JeraSoft• Jersey Telecom (JT)• Junctionz Ltd• Jupiter Telecom Ltd• Kaiser Electronics Pte Ltd• KDDI• KEYHAN Telecom Inc.• Keymatrix fze• Keywest Communications• KOL TELECOM SERVICES LLC• Komshu Telekom (Wholex)• KPN International• Kryptos Global • KT• L2MC• LANCK Telecom Ltd• Lap Green Networks• Uganda Telecom• Latinatel• Lebara• Level 3 Communications• Lexico Telecom LTD• Limecom Srl • LINX• Lleida.net• Locus(KDDI Group)• Logflip Networks FZE• Logosoft• Luxor Communications S.A.• M800• MADA• Magnum KPN• Magyar Telekom Plc.• Mainberg Ltd• Manor IT (UK) Ltd• Marco Polo Communications • Marconi Networks & Telecom• Matrix Networks• Max Telecom Ltd• Maxis• MaxIT Telecom• Median Telecom GmbH• Mediatel• Mega Target Communication • Megaport• MekongNet• Mesh Telecom Inc.• Message Mobile• Metaswitch Networks • Miaminode USA• Micom Telecom• Mir Telecom• Mizan Phone Communications• MMD Smart Ltd• Mobi Web Ltd• MOBIK• Mosaik Solutions

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• Moving Gulf • MTX Communications• Multiconnects• Multinet Pakistan• Mundio Mobile• NBE Mobile Phone GmbH• Neotel DOO• Net-Connect Communications• Netia S.A.• NetTalk S.A.L Offshore• New Horizon Networks• New World Telecom • NewTelco GmbH• Nexge Technologies • Nexmo Ltd• Next Telecom Inc• NextPage Services • NexWave Telecoms• NGT Networks • NGT Telecom• Nightingale Communication & Services • NL-ix• Nobel • Nord Connect • NovoTel• Nowtel Carrier Services• NTT• Numeric Futures • NYXtel• O2 Czech Republic• Oblcom Swiss AG• Oculeus Limited• Oman Telecommunications Company• ONEWORLDVOIP Ltd• Onfonia Telecom• OOREDOO• Orange• ORINOCO d.o.o.• OT - Optima Telekom d.d.• OTE• Oteglobe• OXNP Telecom Ltd.• Pacnet• PCCW Global  • PEG Bandwidth• Phonetime Inc• Pingmar• Pioneer Trading• Planet Azul C.A.• PLDT• POST Technologies• Private Telecom• Progressive Telecom LLC• Prolinks S.A.L (offshore)• Protel S.A.L. Offshore• PT Comunicacoes, S.A.• PT Cyber CSF• PT GAHARU SEJAHTERA• PT XL Axiata TBK• PTCL• Qatama Communications• QSR Systems Pte Ltd.• QTel• Quantum• Quickcom Global Communications Ltd.• Radien Software Pvt Ltd• REDtone• RedVoIP• Reliance Globalcom• REVE Systems India Pvt. Ltd.• RIEDEL Communications Inc.• RiseTel

• Romtelecom• Roots Communications LTD• Rostelekom• RouteSMS Solutions• RouteTrader • Royal Green Communication Corp.• Rozvytok LLC• RSCom• RTX• Safaricom Kenya Ltd• Saif Telecom• Saigon Postel Corp.• Saleem Telecom Ltd.• Sama Telecom• Samena Carrier Forum• Samir Kundu Group• SAMITEL LTD• Sano Corporation Ltd.• Sawasdeeshop• Schrego Communications • SCTLibya - Telecom System• Shatel Global• Sheng Li Telecom Ltd • Shinetown Telecom • SI2I Ltd• SIA Lattelecom• Silverstreet Group • Simple Telecom • Singapore Power• SingTel • Singularity• Sipstatus• SK broadband Telecom• SK telecom• SK telink• Sky Telecom AG• Skynet Lab FZE• Skytel Teleservices• Slovak Telekom A.S.• SM Communication• SMS Consortium• SMS GCN • SMS Group• SMS GRP Pte Ltd• SMShighway• Snap Business• Sofia Connect EOOD• Softbank• SoftNET d.o.o.• Solution9 • SPARKLE• Spectrum ICA• Speed• Speed Data International• Speedflow• Sprint• SprintLink Netherlands B.V.• Starhub • STC• Subah Infosolutions Ghana Ltd• Summit Communications Ltd• Sunrise Communications AG• Swiss Telecom Carrier SA• Swisscom• SWITCHOVER AG• Sync Sound• Synectiv• Syniverse• Talk Today• TalkTalk Communications• Tata Communications• TAVGER Telecommunication Services

• Tawasul Telecom• Tcell• TCG Telecom• TDC• Technology Distribution• Tee Lee Telehub Pte• Telarix• Telasco Comunications Ltd• Telaxia/Axia Globe Ltd• Telco - Trader• Telco Exchange Ltd.• Telco Globe • TelcoPath• TelcoVillage GmbH• TeleAlpha Pte Ltd.• Telecall• TelecityGroup• Telecom Capital• Telecom Colombia• Telecom Egypt• Telecom Italia Sparkle• Telecom Luxembourg • Telecom Services Network • Telecom Services USA INC• TelecomItalia Sparkle S.p.A.• Teleconnect• Telefónica• TeleGeography Research Inc• Teleglitz LLC• Teleglobal Pte Ltd.• Telehouse• HKCOLO.NET • Telekom Asia Pte. Ltd.• TM• Telekom Slovenije• Telekom Srbija• Telekom Srpske• Telin • Telenor• TeleOK (TeleInfo Sp. z o. o.)• Teleone• TeleWhite• TeliaSonera• Teliphone Navigata Westel Communictions• Tell Inc.• Telstra• Telus• Telwide Telecommunication• TEO LT AB• TG Transit SIA• The Messaging Centre Ltd • Thomson Reuters• Tigo Comunicaciones Celulares S.A.• TIME• Titan International Wholesale• TM• Toolbox Network Pte Ltd.• Toos Telecom • TopTel Networks• Tranglo• TransferTo• T-Systems International GmbH• TTK Company• Türk Telekom International• TURKCELL• TW Telecom• TWT S.p.A• TXT GHANA Ltd• tyntec GmbH• U mobile• UAB Vertex• Uganda Telecom

• Unitymedia Kabel BW• Universal Call Ltd• UPC Ireland• UPM Telecom• Vanco Asia Pacific• Vanrise Solutions• Vasudev Global Limited• VeloSolutions• Vendor Microsoft• Vendor REWE Systems• Venus Telecom LTD.• Veoo Ltd• VERIXI• Verizon• Versatel • Verscom • Versitel Pte Ltd.• Vesper Technology Limited• Viacloud W.L.L• Viatel• Videocon Telecommunications Ltd.• VimpelCom Ltd• Virgin Media Business• Virgin Mobile MEA• Virtela ( NTT) • VIS Telecom• V-Leadz Telecom• VM Telecom s.r.o• VNPT• Vocom Int’l. Telecom• Vocus Communications Limited• Vodafone• Voicekings SAL Offshore • Voicepace Technologies Pte. Ltd.• Voicetec• Voipex• Voiping Ltd• Voipmonster • VOIPRIDE Communications• VOIPVIZE• Vovida Telecom• VOX Carrier• Voxbone SA• Voxvalley Technologies• VR Telecom S.L• VSC Global Telecom • VTLWaveNet (Viatel Group)• VvoxGlobal Pte Ltd.• W.I.C. Group • Wasel Telecom• Wavetel• WD TELECOM• Windows Phone• WISS Telecom• World Hub Communications• World Interconnect• WorldSIM Ltd• XConnect• Xicomm, LLC.• XO Communications • Xotel• Xperttel- FZC• YaBand Telecom B.V.• Yeastar Technology Co., Ltd.• Yutele Technology (HK) Ltd.• Zain • Zajil Telecom• ZAO Rascom• Zayo Group• ZERO11 World, INC.• Zia Telecom• ZoneTel

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Thank you to our 2014 GCCM’s Guest Speakers

Beatriz Butsana-SitaManaging director BT Global Telecom Markets Appointed managing director of BT Global Telecom Markets (GTM) in 2010, Beatriz joined BT in 1995 as a principal consultant in BT Consulting, after working in Belgium and the United States with KPMG and Utility Management Consultancy. She gained her BT international experience in business development, where she contract-managed such major global accounts as BMW, Bank of Tokyo, Sumitomo and Daiwa. She then set up BT’s managed hosting business in Germany and the Benelux, and later served as a director of marketing propositions for BT Retail in the UK. Before joining GTM, she led BT Retail call centre-based sales operations in the SME market and desk-based corporate account management. Born in Belgium, Beatriz graduated from Antwerp University with a Masters in Engineering and Economics. She also holds diplomas in advanced management and global leadership from Stanford University, California and the Tuck Business School in Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA.

Leonardo CercielloSenior Vice President MarketingHe began his career in Telecom Italia in 1994. Prior to this appointment, Leonardo had managed the Voice Services Business Line with the responsibility of the marketing and sales department. He held also various senior positions within Sales Department. He has been Vice President for Africa as of February 2010 and Vice President for Middle East Region as of 2008. From the year 2000 he operated as Director of Europe Carrier Services. From 1996 to 2000 he served as Country Manager in London and in Frankfurt.

Nadja Lux Head of International Platform Sales and Customer Care at 42com8+ years of experience in the telecommunication business. Several years of experience in Customer Care and Change Management. Studied labor psychology

Suraj AngepatCOO Kryptos Global Pte Ltd.Appointed a Chief Operating Officer of Kryptos Global Pte Ltd in May 2013 to establish the telecom arm of Kryptos Group which is a market leader is Cloud Solutions & a SPLA partner with Microsoft services over 450 Hosting services providers and Data Centers in India. Prior to Kryptos, Suraj worked at Tata Communications Limited as DGM Sales and was responsible for various turkey infrastructure bundled voice termination deals enabling higher revenue and margin growth. He started his career with Fiber Chem systems as automobile sales and service representative and steered himself into the sunrise industry of Hosting, Datacenter & Voice services in 1998, headed the hosting, messaging and datacenter product department of one of India’s leading ISP and was responsible for the launch of Hybrid hosted mailing solutions. Suraj has his graduation from Madras Christian College ( Madras University).

Steven BessemDirector Business Development Middle East and Africa at iBasis, a KPN CompanySteven Bessem is Director Business Development at KPN/iBasis since 2004. At iBasis Steven is responsible for new business concerning Mobile VAS services. Having worked in telcos since 1995 in Europe, Middle East, Africa with global companies such as AT&T, Telecom Italia and Orascom, his experience spans functions of Mobile Services, Voice and Infrastructure delivery. He holds a Bachelor of satellite engineering from York University and a Master of Science from University of Amsterdam.

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Mark Phimister iBasis, Vice President EuropeAfter joining iBasis 13 years ago and establishing its international finance organization, Mark moved to the position of Managing Director EMEA where he successfully managed an entrepreneurial team that significantly grew the iBasis voice business in the region. As a result of the business merger of iBasis and KPN Global Carrier Service, Mark spent 2 years in The Netherlands as a key member of the business integration team with primary responsibility for finance and administration. In December 2009 he took up his current role of RVP Europe where he is responsible for sales, purchase and business development of voice and mobile roaming services. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Mark held senior positions in consumer electronics and automotive engineering businesses prior to joining iBasis.

Ooi Seng KeatVP, Carrier Services, SingTelOoi Seng Keat is currently VP, Carrier Services and he is responsible for carrier relations for SingTel and in particular, managing the international wholesale voice and data business. He is also responsible for end to end strategic planning, development, operations and management of SingTel Group’s international cables including access and interconnecting facilities, as well as the management of a group of joint venture companies that provides subsea maintenance services in the region.

Mun-Kein ChangExecutive Vice President, Product Marketing Mun-Kein has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Before joining Aicent, he was the Regional President of Asia-Pacific of GRIC Communications based in Singapore, responsible for sales, marketing, technical support, and operations for all GRIC customers and partners in the region. Before GRIC, he worked at Tandem Computers, providing consultation and professional services to major banking and telecommunication companies. He has also held management positions at Zenith Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard Asia-Pacific divisions. Mun-Kein holds a B.S. Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Surrey, England, as well as an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Singapore Polytechnic.

Alexander ReinigCEO and Chairman at 42com12+ years of industry experience in the technology/telecoms sector.Product manager and business process analyst at DaimlerChrysler. Financial consulting assistant at PWC. Studied business, engineering, marketing and management

Hans-Georg KauertLeiter der Abteilung Wirtschaft /Head of the Economics Department Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research

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Metaswitch Press Release

Introduction

There’s a lot of buzz in the industry today about Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). This article, based on a talk I gave at ENPM, explains the relevance of NFV for the wholesale carrier community.

I’m not going to explain NFV from scratch, but just so it’s fresh in your mind here’s a re-cap of the main points.

•The future of telecommunications is net-works based on IP. Service Providers, seeing revenues eroded by OTT competition such as Skype and WhatsApp, are flocking towards IP for the advanced services, the speed of service creation and the cost efficiencies it can provide. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the wireless space with the move to LTE and VoLTE.

•Whereas TDM networks require expensive special-ised hardware to manage precise timers, there is a wide variety of commodity equipment that can han-dle telecoms’ IP workloads.

•The vision of NFV is to trans-form Telco networks - From a narrow set of services built on an eclectic collection of specialised devices, each with their own arcane operating pro-cedures and restricted talent pool capable of operating them- To an agile service environment built on inexpensive commodity hardware, with standard operating procedures accessible to a wide pool of experts

•To achieve maximum agility and efficiency, NFV borrows and expands on the virtualization and cloud techniques already established in IT datacentres.

Relevance to carriers

That’s NFV in a nutshell, but what’s the relevance of NFV to the carrier community? First and foremost

carriers need to be able to “carry” IP voice as that will remain the core of any Telco’s ser-vice offering. Beyond that, carriers will need to keep pace with service providers’ requests to “carry” a wide variety of services with dif-fering QoS and capacity requirements. So car-riers too should be looking to invest in agile service environments.

What does such an agile service environ-ment look like? At its simplest level it’s a vir-tual POP. Start with a datacentre with racks of commodity hardware. Deploy a virtual SBC

to provide an IP interconnect point for your custom-ers to connect to. Connect that back into your existing backbone network and you’re good to go.

Why a virtual POP rather than a physical one? Vir-tual POPs are much quicker and cheaper to get up and running. A physical POP will cost hundreds of thou-sands of dollars and can take anywhere from 6-18 months to get up and running. Whereas a virtual POP can be deployed in minutes and set up remotely with-out your operations staff having to leave their desks. This is revolutionary not evolutionary!

This revolution means that mar-kets that wouldn’t be cost-effective with a physical POP suddenly be-come a real proposition. You can use Virtual POPs to reach new customers or you can choose to deploy POPs to give a more local service to existing customers and, with suitably intelli-gent routing, you can direct calls to

flow between virtual POPs. This helps to offload some traffic from your core network as well as giving better QoS from your customers. Win-win.

It doesn’t stop there though. The same techniques that allow you to set up new POPs quickly and cheaply also apply to scaling up capacity. Well-designed virtu-alization software allows you to scale just the resourc-es you need, so if you need more signaling capacity to cope with RCS services you can add that. Conversely if you need more media capacity for transcoding or sheer bandwidth then you can add more media processing elements. This is a really simple and quick operation

Metaswitch Virtualization for Interconnect Providers

NFV promises to revolutionize the way carriers approach their business. It’s not just a promise for the future though - it’s happening now.

Oliver Carter, Perimeta SBC Product Manager

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Item Assumption Running costs in AWS (/voice-minute)

Instance rental (c3.large) Average 10% capacity used 0.001 centsBandwidth G.711 codec 0.018 centsBilling storage Downloaded daily 0.00005 centsBilling download bandwidth 3 minute call average 0.000004 centsSecure VPN connection Single VPN connection 0.0006 centsTotal 0.02 cents

in a virtual environment. With the right software it can be achieved automatically – a process known as elastic scaling (see http://www.metaswitch.com/news/metadata/100614/metaswitch-demos-mvoip-lte-voice-summit). In fact it is possible to scale up and down your capacity in a matter of minutes! You can optimize your power utilization and other overheads, minimize your cost base and maximize your profit in a way that hasn’t been possible before.

Is it ready yet?

So that’s the promise of NFV and the impact it can have on carriers. Though how much of this is con-jecture and marketing waffle, and how much is real? Let’s take a look at the virtual POP in a bit more detail.

Typically applications involved in signaling, OSS or BSS are simple to virtualize and in some carriers’ net-works are already deployed in this fashion. However for a virtual POP you need a component that can do more than just handle signaling – as you’ll need to

•Handle media streams without introducing signif-icant delay or jitter – a function that has historically required network processors.

•Perform transcoding – a function that has histori-cally required DSPs

•Provide security – a function that has historically required specialised encryption hardware and net-work processors.

There are many different terms used for this com-ponent: “IP-IP Gateway”, “IPX proxy”, “IBCF+TrGw”, however in practice providers will use an SBC to per-form this function. Up until recently, carrier grade SBCs have used specialised hardware to perform the functions above, which makes them incompatible with NFV. Fortunately the last couple of generations of Intel chips (starting with Sandy Bridge) have ena-

bled all of these functions to be performed in software, so you no longer need specialised hardware for an SBC. As a result some SBC vendors have embraced SBCs in software, and of these only Metaswitch’s Perimeta product has verifiably cracked how to achieve all of those functions in software at carrier-scale.

Show me the money

Above we talked about how much quicker and cheaper virtual POPs can be to deploy, but what about running costs. Can they really be viable for business?

For illustration and because the prices are easily ob-tainable let’s look at running in the most well known public cloud – Amazon Web services. This is just for illustration, but costs in other fully managed clouds are expected to be similar. The cost breakdown below shows the costs of running an SBC in Amazon, includ-ing encrypted VPN connections to peers. All costs are normalised to show the price per-voice-minute.

You can see from this that a total running cost of 0.02 cents (or $0.0002) per-voice-minute mean that it is entirely viable to run this as a business as long as your revenues are higher than that. In addition it’s worth noting that the dominant factor in the cost is bandwidth, which means that costs essentially scale directly with revenue. If you have a quiet period your costs are negligible, but when activity picks up again your costs increase, but so does your revenue.

The bottom line

NFV promises to revolutionize the way carriers ap-proach their business. It’s not just a promise for the future though - it’s happening now. Virtual SBCs have started to be deployed live for Interconnect traffic – see for example http://www.metaswitch.com/news/press-releases/2014/bt-selects-metaswitch-virtual-sbc. Don’t be left behind – make your plans for NFV today and contact Metaswitch if you’d like to under-stand how they can help you make the transition.

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Industry news

State-owned telco Uz-bektelecom has continued to cut prices for interna-tional bandwidth for in-ternet service providers (ISPs), introducing a new rate of USD276.27 per Mbps from 4 December 2014, Uz-Daily writes. The operator has already dropped the rate four times in 2014, in June (USD306.04), July

Sources:www.totaltele.comwww.telecompaper.comwww.telegeography.com

Uzbektelecom continues to reduce price for international bandwidth12 Dec 2014

(USD303.51) and Au-gust (USD299.22 and USD286.74). TeleGeog-raphy’s GlobalComms Database notes that the telco has been driving down the price as fast as possible in recent years, having charged USD1,510 per Mbps in March 2010, and USD529 at the end of 2011.

Telecom Personal, the second largest mobile op-erator in Argentina, with 19.767 million subscribers as at 30 September 2014, has partnered with California-based Jasper to introduce ‘Internet of Things’ and M2M connectivity for busi-nesses. Enterprise custom-ers will gain a highly scal-able platform to launch, manage and monetise their connected services globally, the vendor says.

TeleGeography notes that Jasper has previously

Personal taps Jasper for corporate IoT, M2M solution12 Dec 2014

teamed up with the likes of Claro, Telenor, Vimpelcom, Tele2, Telefonica, AT&T, KPN, NTT DoCoMo and Etisalat to spearhead M2M initiatives.

The IoT is the intercon-nection of uniquely identi-fiable embedded computing devices within the existing internet infrastructure. Typ-ically, IoT offers advanced connectivity of devices, sys-tems, and services that goes beyond M2M, and covers a variety of protocols, do-mains and applications.

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesger-ichtshof – BGH) has ruled that Deutsche Telekom (DT) misled potential investors buying shares in its public share offer in 2000, Reuters reports. The shareholders said that DT had been too optimistic about the valua-tion of the firm in its sales prospectus, thereby mis-leading potential investors. The long running case was brought to court by about 17,000 of the former mo-nopoly’s shareholders who are claiming EUR80 mil-lion (USD99.5 million) in compensation for a fall in its share price following the sale in 2000. The BGH said in its ruling that DT

DT misinformed investors in 2000 IPO, court rules12 Dec 2014

had falsely suggested in the prospectus that it had sold shares in US operator Sprint in 1999 at a profit of EUR8.2 billion; in reality, the Bonn-based telco had transferred the shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary. Accord-ing to the court, it failed to warn investors that it was still bearing the full risk of a potential drop in the valuation of Sprint. ‘In that regard, the prospectus is ob-jectively wrong,’ the court said in a statement. The case has now been referred back to a regional court in Frankfurt, which will have to establish whether DT will have to compensate investors for the fall in the share price.

The Commission on Pro-tection of Competition (CPC) has decided to open an in-depth investigation of Vivacom’s (Bulgarian Tel-ecommunications Compa-ny, BTC’s) planned acquisi-tion of National Unit Radio and TV Systems (NURTS) Digital, a digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplex operator in Bulgaria. The anti-monopoly watchdog said that the combined enterprise could have a competitive advantage in two adjacent markets, the Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) signals market, and the distribu-tion of TV channels via paid platforms (i.e. satellite and internet protocol [IP]).

Further, the regulator has disclosed that if the merger is approved, the newly en-larged operator would pos-sess well developed infra-structure which could be considered ‘strategically important’, as it could not necessarily be duplicated by

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its competitors. A potential restriction of access to this infrastructure could ham-per competition and affect the quality and price of ser-vices, the CPC said. The reg-ulator will now analyse the aforementioned markets in depth in order to estab-lish the potential risks and/or benefits of the proposed deal.

As previously reported by CommsUpdate, in Septem-ber 2014 Vivacom informed the CPC that it intended to acquire NURTS Digital. The NURTS Bulgaria group in-vested in and set up the in-frastructure necessary for the distribution of DVB-T signals within the territory of Bulgaria, but its owners decided to divest the unit, due to ‘the macroeconomic situation and lack of con-sumer interest in the digital over-the-air signal’. In its letter of intent, Vivacom de-clared that it would fulfill all contractual and legal duties of NURTS Bulgaria.

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Operator offer services to enterprise customers via T-Mobile US network.

Vodafone Americas this week unveiled plans to launch mobile services for enterprise customers either based in the U.S. or with a strong presence in the U.S.

The operator will offer services via a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal with T-Mobile US, and is due to launch in late au-tumn 2015.

Vodafone said it has more than 400 multinational cus-tomers (MNCs) based in the U.S., and a further 500 mul-tinational customers that address the U.S. market but are based elsewhere.

"The addition of wireless services for Vodafone's US MNC customers comple-ments Vodafone's exist-ing portfolio of U.S. and international fixed, mobile and machine-to-machine (M2M) products and servic-es," said Vodafone Ameri-cas, in a blog post on Thurs-

Vodafone to launch US MVNO

day.The company said it will

also roll out its OneNet uni-fied communications offer-ing to its U.S. customer base.

Separately on Thursday, Vodafone announced a fur-ther 17 4G roaming desti-nations, bringing the to-tal number of countries in which travelling subscribers can access high-speed mo-bile services to 40.

"Around four million peo-ple head overseas during the festive period so today’s news is perfect for those wanting to upload photos or videos of their celebrations to their social media sites or check maps online whilst on the move," said Cindy Rose, head of consumer at Vodafone UK, in a statement.

The 17 new destinations are Antigua and Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, Croatia, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Sweden’s Ericsson looks poised to step in and save Ethiopia’s proposed tel-ecoms expansion project, taking on a sizeable portion of a USD800 million con-tract initially earmarked for ZTE Corp of China af-ter a fallout between Addis Ababa and Beijing over the terms of the deal. A senior Ericsson official told Reu-ters that both sides have fallen out over the cost of upgrading an existing network, with Ethiopian officials arguing that the vendors agreed to carry out the upgrade at no extra charge, after ZTE placed an additional USD150 million-USD200 million fee on its original costings. ZTE’s deal with state-run operator Ethio Telecom was inked in 2013 – one-half of the overall a USD1.6 billion package de-signed to double the African carrier’s mobile subscriber

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base – with the other half taken by another Chinese firm, Huawei Technologies.

Ethio Telecom CEO An-dualem Admassie has con-firmed that negotiation with discussions are near-ing completion. ‘Ericsson will start working on that share of expansion work,’ Admassie said, adding that the deal now needs confir-mation from the Ethio Tele-com board. The chief execu-tive went on to say that ZTE is not entirely excluded from the deal. ‘ZTE has lost parts of its share but have made it clear it is willing to resume work, no matter what the current circumstances.’

The massive project is aimed at boosting mobile take-up to 50 million in a country totally 90 million over the next year, expand Ethio Telecom’s 3G services, and to roll out a 4G network in Addis Ababa.

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According to ComReg, average broadband speeds in Ireland continue to rise with the regulator report-ing that in Q3 2014 around 61.8% of all fixed broad-band subscriptions offered speeds of 10Mbps or higher, up 19.7% from the corre-sponding period in the pre-vious year, while 43.2% of connections offered speeds of 30Mbps or above, up from 32.5% in Q3 2013. Bro-ken down further, approxi-

Irish average broadband speeds continue to increase

mately 67.5% of residential subscriptions and 25.4% of business subscriptions ex-ceeded 10Mbps at the end of September 2014, while 47.9% of residential and 13.2% of business connections sur-passed 30Mbps. ComReg notes that over the last two years broadband growth has been mainly in the >30Mbps bracket, having increased from 19.9% in Q3 2012 to 43.2% in Q3 2014.

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Broadband expansion was discussed at a meet-ing with the heads of the German federal states, the national government has announced. Chancellor An-gela Merkel said that the Federation and the individ-ual states have determined

Merkel says 700 MHz frequency auction to take place in 201515 December

the course for an acceler-ated allocation of 700 MHz frequencies. The auction is due to take place in the first half of next year. Ac-cording to Merkel, this will release additional funds for broadband expansion in Germany.

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Industry news Sources:www.telecom2.com

The market of broadband Afaq DSL communica-tion services witnessed a large growth in the King-dom as the sales of the DSL technology lines had exceeded with the end of 2008 more than million DSL lines. This proportion is far higher than the growth rates in all Arab countries, where it reached by the end of- 2007- 600 thousand customers, and by the end of 2006 its sales reached approximately 194,000 subscribers in the broadband DSL, com-pared to 51,000 by the end of 2005. Therefore, STC has achieved a growth rate exceeding 500% or 5 times over two years only, which are very high growth rates by all standards.

Being the largest telecom services provider in the region, STC has and ever keenness on achieving the aspirations of its customers through the provision of the state of the art in communication services and information technology.

We are pumping investments of more than $ 1.3 billion a year to raise the reliability of the Saudi market’s services. Af-ter we have managed to meet all the Saudi market’s needs, we aimed to internationality in deliberate pace.

The Strategy of Internal Investment (Horizontal and Vertical expansion):

The expansion objectives of STC do not only focus on the number of customers, but go beyond that to the reinforce-ment of the services and offering them in new regions of the Kingdom. STC pumps annual investments of more than 5 billion SR (1.3 Billion $) in the Saudi market and it intends to go on with these investments in the future to develop the networks and to provide various service packs. This has in turn gained the company a rapid growth in its different ser-vices and businesses as the number of mobile customers in the Kingdom increased by more than 2 million customers in 2008 only, where the number of subscribers to the company’s Broadband services reached more than 5 millions by the be-ginning of this year through the use of more than one mil-lion DSL lines.

The Strategy of Foreign Investment (from Local to Global)

Operates in ten markets around the world

How STC is CHALLENGING the recession in the Saudi KingdomBeing the largest telecom services provider in the region, STC has and ever keenness on achieving the aspirations of its customers through the provision of the state of the art in communication services and information technology. We are pumping investments of more than $ 1.3 billion a year to raise the reliability of the Saudi market’s services. After we have managed to meet all the Saudi market’s needs, we aimed to internationality in deliberate pace.

STC is actually keen not to enter any new market or start new investments until all the correspond-ing studies are complete. That is due to the fact that we have been able to secure a privileged position in all the markets where we work and we have drawn an image for ourselves that shall try hard to main-tain, if not reinforce. In addition, STC will continue to hit its stride in foreign investments where it continues the process of searching for new emerg-ing markets in the field of communications.

STC took some strides in making extensive stud-ies for foreign investment projects. But, before that, STC was quite sure of satisfying all the requirements of the Saudi market through providing it with the latest available communication services around the world to achieve many qualitative strides in the development standard of the information commu-nity. Subsequently, STC took ambitious and planned steps in the path of foreign investment, after gain-

ing huge amount of experiences and successes in the local borders. The series of successes continued after winning nine more global licenses that included Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan and reached South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Turkey. That is in addition to taking a leading and advanced position on the national level in the KSA.

Providing services for more than 100 million custom-er

STC is committed to managing its services on a highly pro-fessional standard by adopting the latest and advancing the existing networks, services and packs.

Consequently, STC was capable of attracting a customer base of more than 100 million customer, particularly that it carefully chooses its investment markets and provides long, medium and short term plans to offer services in ten markets in a highly competitive standards, though these are consid-ered from the most attractive and competing global markets.

Emerging Telecom Economics (new players in the global telecom market) such as China Telecom Compa-ny and STC among others:

The global telecommunication market was previously re-stricted to a number of international pioneer telecommuni-

Engineer Saud bin Majed Al-Daweesh President & CEOSTC Group

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cation companies. But later on it took another drift, where new emerging economics succeeded in bringing out a num-ber of companies that used, until the recent past, to focus their activities on the local or regional markets. Yet, they were capable in short time of developing themselves and becoming international as they now compete and pump in-vestments in the telecom markets of several countries.

The occurrence of companies as STC and China Telecom as official sponsors of the conference and exhibition of ITU is a clear indication of the appearance of ambitious companies willing to extend their international existence and be capa-ble of competing with the world’s major telecommunication companies.

Success stories with global standard:From the most prominent successes that will be always a

source of pride for Saudi Telecom is its being capable of ac-commodating the high growth in the number of internet us-ers, whereas the studies indicate that the Kingdom is one of the fastest growing markets in the number of internet users. The actual challenges that changed that realty to an accom-plishment was that the company was capable of expanding the range of its network and infrastructure to accommodate the huge increase in the customers’ number, where the num-ber of customers in Afaq DSL service jumped from 180 thou-sand to more than one million line in 2 years, serving more than 5 million users. Furthermore, there was a large increase in the mobile customers where their number jumped from 13 million customers by the end of 2006 to about 20 million customers throughout the first half of this year 2009.

Serving 5 million pilgrims and visitors (Hajj and Mo’tamer) during the greatest annual gathering on earth:

From the challenges that we are always proud of achiev-ing, year after year, is what is accomplished during one of the largest annual gathering around the world, for two weeks, where the pilgrims of the Holy mosque and visitors arrive to the heart of the Islamic world to perform the Hajj and Umrah. Consequently, this gathering results in a huge mo-mentum due to hundred millions of calls and text messages between the pilgrims and their families. Thus, the company expanded the coverage range by intensifying the communi-cation strengthening towers, in addition to providing cent-ers and special communication service vehicles, to end every year with a new record achieved in serving the pilgrims of the holy mosque. The effort done in the utmost of the communi-cation activity of the pilgrims and their families in a specific time and specific locations and the follow up of this activ-ity according to the of motion the pilgrims and their move-ment between the visiting places (Al-Mash’er), is a huge hu-

man and technical challenge by all measures. We are proud to meet this challenge by providing an advanced standard of telecommunication services that performs smoothly and steadily around the clock, year after year.

The company’s vital role to secure the communica-tion between East and West in technical crisis situa-tions, such as shortages of marine cables (smart invest-ment in infrastructure):

STC is not a company that is only interested in providing the best services for its investment markets, but it is one of the best international players in the field of regional in-frastructure investments and in opening communication channels between East and West. From these are the huge investments that STC pumped in the international cables, based on its high belief in their importance. Indeed, the vi-sion was achieved and the benefit of that investment was obvious when the company was capable of overcoming the crisis of the shortage of the three submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria and Italy. That shortage af-fected the audio connection services and international inter-net service in the region due to the fact that the telephone activity, internet and exchanged information through these cables represent more than 80% of the overall exchanged ac-tivity around the world.

It is known that the international network of “STC” is the latest and most advanced network in the region and is also one of the pioneers in the use of submarine cables technol-ogy in telecommunications, where it started with the first generation of continental marine cable SEA ME WE 1 in 1986, which used the copper technology. These techniques have evolved to develop into fiber-optic networks along with the technology of DWDM.

Leading the process of electronic culture creation in the largest market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Although Saudi Arabia is a young nation, and it has been 79 years since it was united under the leadership of King Abdul-Aziz, yet it has ambitious plans to break the barriers of time and place to reach, by that ambition accompanied by proper planning, the level of developed countries in many aspects that are central to the structure of any country. It already managed to create a society of qualified cadres and servic-es with high levels of technology, and is still determined to move towards these objectives with a series of strategic plans, on top of which is the deployment of the Internet culture to attain an information society that considers the technology basic in the daily dealings and can deal with all the facts of the e-government.

Sources:www.telecom2.com

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USA based AT&T has announced that it is paying USD2.5 billion for the Mexican mobile network operator, Iusacell and plans to offer a single network service covering both countries.

Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T will acquire all of Iusacell's wireless properties, including licenses, network as-sets, retail stores and approximately 8.6 million subscribers.

The acquisition will occur after Grupo Salinas, the current owner of 50 percent of Iusacell, closes its announced pur-chase of the other 50 percent of Iusacell that Grupo Salinas does not currently own.

Iusacell offers wireless service under both the Iusacell and Unefón brand names with a network that today covers about 70 percent of Mexico's approximately 120 million people. AT&T plans to expand Iusacell's network to cover millions of additional consumers and businesses in Mexico.

"Our acquisition of Iusacell is a direct result of the reforms put in place by President Peña Nieto to encourage more competition and more investment in Mexico. Those reforms together with the country's strong economic outlook, grow-ing population and growing middle class make Mexico an attractive place to invest," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO. "Iusacell gives us a unique opportunity to create the first-ever North American Mobile Service area cov-ering over 400 million consumers and businesses in Mexico and the United States. It won't matter which country you're in or which country you're calling - it will all be one network,

AT&T to Acquire Mexican Wireless Provider, Iusacell9th Nov 2014

one customer experience.Iusacell operates a 3G wireless network based on the global

GSM/UMTS technology that AT&T uses in the United States. Iusacell owns between 20 and 25 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum, primarily in the southern half of the country, including Mex-ico City and Guadalajara, and an average of 39MHz of PCS spectrum nationwide. Iusacell's Total Play business, includ-ing the network assets to support pay TV and wireline broad-band services will be spun out to Grupo Salinas' existing shareholders prior to AT&T closing its acquisition of Iusacell.

AT&T said Iusacell represents a natural geographic expan-sion of its wireless footprint into a country with a growing economy that is interdependent with the U.S. economy. This transaction gives AT&T the assets necessary to create a first-ever North American Mobile Service area for U.S. customers calling or visiting Mexico, and Mexican customers calling or visiting the United States.

Iusacell will however continue to be headquartered in Mexico City following the transaction closing.

The companies believe that the synergy potential from the combination would include economies of scale through combined purchasing opportunities; and the sharing of best practices.

The transaction is subject to review by Mexico's telecom regulator IFT (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) and Mexico's National Foreign Investments Commission. AT&T expects the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2015.

Telcos to form 50:50 joint venture with 40% share of Danish mobile market; analyst suggests 3 will gain spectrum.

TeliaSonera and Telenor have agreed to merge their mobile operations in Demark, building on an existing network-shar-ing deal between them.

The telcos will each hold a 50% stake in the joint venture, which will have around 3.5 million customers and hold a mobile market share of around 40%, they announced on Wednesday.

They aim to close the deal during the course of 2015.TeliaSonera and Telenor agreed to share 2G, 3G and 4G net-

works in Denmark in mid-2011. As a result, a buyout of one by the other was unlikely since the lack of network synergies would have made it difficult for the acquirer to justify, Beren-berg analysts noted.

"However, the JV solves that issue and allows equal sharing of opex synergies, worth about 2% to each share price if fully achieved," analyst Barry Zeitoune said.

"We are making a necessary and natural move by forming a joint venture with Telenor building on the network part-nership we already have with them," said Robert Andersson, head of TeliaSonera's Europe business, in a statement.

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He added that as a combined entity the companies will be able to invest in their operations in Denmark, something that has to date been difficult due to pressure on revenues and profits.

"The joint venture will become a robust operator," said Kjell Morten Johnsen, Telenor's Europe head. "We will be able to offer our customers a high-quality network with out-standing connectivity and the best customer experience in Denmark."

The telcos said they expect to gain clearance from the Eu-ropean Commission.

Berenberg suggests that possible competition remedies could include a divestment of a significant chuck of spec-trum to rival operator 3, the smallest player in the market with a 12% share.

The telcos put annual synergies at at least 800 million kro-ner from 2019, with savings coming from distribution, sales and marketing, call centres, admin costs, network and IT.

Berenberg's Zeitoune described the projected synergies as "a little optimistic".

The telcos are in the process of recruiting a new CEO for the joint venture.

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Companies’ Profiles

42comTelecommunication is active in the field of retail voice, wholesale voice and switch so-lutions (switch partitioning). Our company provides tier-1 operators, MNOs and OTTs with stable direct routing con-nections in all countries around the world, especially in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Mid-dle East. Through a custom-ized business model, Partner can choose from a selection of individual destinations and trusted global carriers and conduct operations with the highest professional standards. We also engage in bilateral trading, swap deals, and fixed-price routing.

Afinna One The core business of the Com-pany is Wholesale Arbitrage with CLI and without CLI destinations, but our strength are the direct interconnection agreements with our partners in the following areas: Middle East Africa, South America and parts of eastern Europa and Asia, so we are able to obtain quality control and strong termination with com-petitive prices. The Division of Special project is designed to meet the needs of our custom-ers whether they are the DID number premium or special services, and also the only col-lection projects such as Upper tel or Upper voip, have shown that Afinna One srl is able to achieve their objectives.

Apelby CommunicationsWith retail and wholesale ac-tivities, having its subsidiar-ies in the Czech Republic, UK and Hong Kong. Since our es-tablishment in 2005 we have continued to grow in both number of customers and traf-

fic. Retail activities are focused on MVNO services in Central Europe and VoIP based retail services (including apps for smartphones). Wholesale part is already a worldwide A-Z business with more than 1 bil-lion minutes yearly. With our PoPs in Frankfurt, London and Prague we have joined inter-national wholesale with main focus on niche telecommuni-cations markets in Europe, CIS, Middle East, Asia and LATAM.

Blueberry TelecomWe provide a broad range of telecommunications services including wholesale carrier data, Internet and voice ser-vices via a high-speed optic network to more than 200 countries around the world. In addition, Blueberry Telecom provides managed intercon-nectivity and interoperability services to telecommunications operators with a key focus on emerging markets. To ensure optimum reliability and uptime on its network, Blueberry Tele-com’s operations are monitored and supported by a growing network of network operations centres (NOC). Headquartered in Singapore, Blueberry Tele-com is a wholly-owned subsidi-ary of the InfoWave Group.

BT Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommuni-cations services to its custom-ers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and ser-vices and converged fixed/mo-bile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services (BTGS), BT Retail, BT Whole-sale and Openreach. BT Global Telecom Markets (GTM), the international wholesale division of BTGS, serves communication providers, carriers and telecom

DigitalkA complete carrier routing so-lution for wholesale service providers, combining high availability networking, supe-rior routing and rates manage-ment, and integrated wholesale billing and reporting. DIGITALK Carrier Cloud enables service providers to set up services rapidly and grow profitably. DIGITALK is a trusted, carrier-neutral provider of Carrier, Consumer and Mobile commu-nications solutions delivered on premises and in the Cloud to wholesale and retail service providers worldwide. DIGITALK offers complete, highly scal-able service delivery platforms supported by worldwide 24x7 SLAs and support services.

Epsilon TelecommunicationsAward-winning enabler of connectivity services to com-munications service providers around the world. We operate the world’s largest Global Net-work Exchange with 500+ net-work operators pre-connected and ready for their networks to be used to create tailored-made solutions for service providers globally. As a carrier neutral infrastructure provider, we operate and source the highest quality networks and services in more than 170 coun-tries and build flexible network solutions for national, regional and international communica-tions companies.

ExcilaA subsidiary of Tseyva Ltd, a Licensed Voice provider in Sin-gapore established in 2004. We have seen a huge demand for a one stop carrier solution over the years for retail provid-ers and strive to offer Quality Termination around the globe. We continuously focus on qual-ity as we identify this as a long term strategy to win in a com-petitive market.

operators, using a combination of BT’s state-of-the-art global fibre-optic network and satel-lite services. GTM positions itself as a 21st-century pro-vider of capacity and capabili-ties. While continuing to offer traditional premium wholesale solutions, GTM also provides TDM voice, IP and mobile voice, including IP Exchange (IPX); data network, network management, data centre, inbound and messaging ser-vices, backed by the offerings of BT Advise for Communica-tions, GTM’s professional ser-vices and consulting unit.

Carrier CallThe Swiss software and ser-vices company works with its own development team in-house. In close coopera-tion with market experts Car-rier Call added a fraud module XFraud to its range of solutions. Fraud detection is a challenge, which needs a flexible system to detect unusual patterns of behavior. Automated traffic monitoring has also positive impact on your revenue as-surance. In combination with other XCarrier modules, e.g. XProvisioning you will have an all-inclusive fraud solu-tion. We are also proud to an-nounce major enhancements in our rating engine XRate, a new generation rating engine which provides you with rated real time data. It rates all your CDR’s rapidly and offers a common view over your pro-cessed call records. XRate is able to rate forward or reverse, based on A/B-number-types or dependent on the point of interconnect. It bills in the context operator; virtual op-erators or other call scenarios are possible. It is ready for the new step rating which means different steps in parallel with increased and/or decreased charges within a call or certain duration.

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FizanVoIP Service Provider focusing in Internet Telephony Solutions for businesses, VoIP reseller programs and VoIP carrier services across varied areas of expertise. We are dedicated to delivering Customer Manage-ment and Billing Solutions for entrepreneurs, carriers, VoIP Calling Card Operators and Corporate companies based on VoIP. Fizantel provides a bunch of best profitable VoIP solutions, which include world class quality VoIP Call Termi-nation at cost-effective rates. It provides services like VoIP Termination, Wholesale Termi-nation, VoIp Reseller, Callshop Reseller and A-Z Termination, All kind of VoIP Solution. Our vision is to emerge as a ma-jor VoIP Service Provider by integrating telephony system with the contemporary online world.

iVoiceLeading provider of Voice Ser-vices and Information Tech-nology services to business and government worldwide. iVoice founded in 2007 & We are special in Wholesale Voice service, Wholesale Data ser-vice, Mobile application, IPPBX Solution provider, Voice over IP Solution Provider, GPS Appli-cation and System Integrator. We undertake both offshore and on-site Software Develop-ment and with Software Tech-nology practices among its core competencies, we can de-liver world-class Software that is Designed and Developed after systematic analysis of its client’s requirements.

Kryptos Global An emerging telecom player offering cutting-edge turnkey

voice solutions for the telecom industry and is a part of Multi-million Dollar Kryptos Group. Kryptos Global offers competi-tive and flexible Global Voice termination options by lever-aging its multi-million dollar network and connecting busi-nesses securely. Our telecom services encompassing whole-sale as well as retail voice are both affordable and enjoyable.

Lanck Telecom We provide high quality ser-vices at competitive rates to all possible destinations in the world, terminating calls into lo-cal PSTN and mobile networks. Our company supports both traditional TDM (SS7 and PRI) and packet based (ITU H.323 and SIP) interconnects. Lanck Telecom carries traffic world-wide with the use of its own network of international gate-ways located in the USA, coun-tries of Europe, the CIS and Asia. We have direct intercon-nections in Frankfurt-am-Main, Helsinki, Tallinn, Vilnius, Lon-don, Paris, Zagreb, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore and Hong Kong. LANCK Tele-com focuses on delivering voice traffic to Russia and other coun-tries of the CIS, the Baltic states, Eastern Europe and Asia. For customers who demand more services and unprecedented quality assurance. LANCK Tele-com efficiently cooperates with long distance carriers and call-ing cards providers. The list of our loyal partners includes over 600 companies worldwide.

LuxorWe provide all the components to support a complete Business, VoIP service. Luxor Communi-cations provides high Quality of service and offers Wholesale service at aggressive rates. It is a product, which we offer maxi-mum number of our routes to customers and can bring price advantage to them. It has all our wholesale VoIP routes, di-rect or indirect, everything that

bringing price advantage to us is used in this product. Due to our sizeable traffic in whole-sale minutes, we have some of the best international rates in the industry, and therefore are able to pass these sav-ings to our clients. Luxor pro-vides A-Z voice termination through interconnections with Tier 1 Providers. The quality of our connections is simply best possible. We are working with SIP and H323. Luxor net-work is supported by network-operation-center, ensuring the constant quality of our service.

Manor IT (UK) Ltd One of the proud industry leaders focused on Interna-tional Wholesale and Retail Voice Terminations, Corporate IP-Telephony Services, MVNO Mobile Services and been one of the most powerful thought leaders in the industry of Tel-ecommunications. Currently originating retail voice traf-fic from 40+ countries in the world with more than 200 direct interconnections across aiming to be one of top indus-try leaders by 2015. Our best in class technical expertise has always been a key blessing to let ourselves expanded glob-ally and rapidly. Our ethical view is to look after the cus-tomers’ requirements with the top-most priority set and we always believe that what mat-ters to our customers, indeed matters to us.

PCCW GlobalAn operating subsidiary of HKT, Hong Kong premier tel-ecommunications service pro-vider, which is majority owned by PCCW Limited. With cent-ers in Hong Kong, Herndon, Virginia in the US, Paris in France, and Dubai in the Unit-ed Arab Emirates, plus teams based in the Middle East, Afri-ca, Europe, Asia and the Amer-icas, PCCW Global serves the voice and data needs of mul-tinational enterprises, as well

as the operational requirements of service providers. Covering more than 1,800 cities and 120 countries, the PCCW Global network supports a portfolio of integrated global communica-tions solutions which include Ethernet solutions, IP Solutions, fiber and satellite transmission solutions, managed services and solutions, and voice ser-vices.

Sheng Li TelecomOur Company provides whole-sale voice & calling card play-ers and build environment in Middle East & Asia. Sheng Li telecom is focused to provide services in Telecommunication arena that include Calling Card Operators, MVNO’s, ISP’s & INCUMBENTS operators. Our wholesale voice services allow our customers to expand into new markets, boost revenues and profitability, offer unparal-leled quality of service (QoS), and gain a competitive edge. Our services are delivered through our cutting-edge global converged communications and IP network.

StarHubSingapore’s fully-integrated info-communication company, offering a full range of informa-tion, communications and en-tertainment services for both consumer and corporate mar-kets. StarHub operates Singa-pore’s fastest two-way HSPA+ mobile network that delivers up to 21Mbps for downlink to complement its nation-wide GSM network, and an island-wide HFC network that delivers multi-channel cable TV ser-vices (including High Defini-tion Television and on-demand services) as well as ultra-high speed residential broadband services. Over Singapore’s fi-bre-based Next Generation Na-

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tionwide Broadband Network, StarHub offers a broad range of home and business broad-band plans along with a host of advanced media-rich value-added services.Launched in 2000, StarHub has become one of Singapore’s most in-novative info-communications providers, and the pioneer in ‘hubbing’ - the ability to deliver unique integrated and con-verged services to all its cus-tomers.

SynectivUnderpinning our network de-sign expertise is a carrier grade next generation network, oper-ating both in the IP and TDM space. This enables Synectiv to bring innovative world class services into reality with the shortest lead times. The Syn-ectiv network is connected across the globe. With a large presence both in London and also significant out-of-london points of presence, Synec-tiv is interconnected with all major telecom providers and has good resilience across the globe.

TelarixThrough its software, iXLink and iXTools, keeps you con-nected to the rest of the world. The solutions are flexible and customizable, delivered in ei-ther a license, hosted or cost effective SaaS.

TelecityGroupEurope’s leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, operating 38 facilities across Europe. Our data cen-tres are enabling environments where networks meet, peer and exchange traffic and where bandwidth intensive applica-tions, content and information are hosted. If you want to ex-tend your European reach, get closer to your end users and grow revenue, talk to Telecity-

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Group. Our ready-made eco-system of 5000+ customers, 38 data centres and 149MW of announced expansion capacity present an opportunity not to be missed. TelecityGroup, con-necting the digital economy.

Telecom Services NetworkWe provide high Quality voice termination services to Whole-sale voice carriers, Mobile Op-erators and Retail Customers. Incorporated in 2007 and with more than 30 Tier 1 intercon-nects and 7 major direct desti-nations TSN carries more than 600 Million minutes a month globally through our POP’s in Europe and Asia. Our well equipped and 24/7 support staff ensures continuous tech-nical assistance to our custom-ers.

TelefoonikOur telecom portfolio includes wholesale and retail premium VoIP A-Z termination services that targets transit carriers and corporate subscribers. We partner with Tier-1 national, global carriers, ISPs, corporate carriers and residential VoIP providers by offering custom-ers with competitive A-Z price list and top quality worldwide call routing offering a one-stop solution to carriers looking to reduce their costs in interna-tional calls, we offer tailored services to carriers and individ-uals whether for corporate use or personal.

tyntecA mobile interaction specialist, enabling businesses to inte-grate mobile telecom services for a wide range of uses – from enterprise mission critical ap-plications to internet services. The company reduces the complexity involved in access-ing the closed and complex telecoms world by providing a high quality, easy to integrate and global offering using uni-

versal services such as SMS, voice and numbers. Founded in 2002, and with more than 150 staff in six offices around the globe, tyntec works with 500+ businesses including mobile service providers, enterprises and internet companies.

Verscom Since 2003, pioneering and deploying IP based voice ter-mination services across the MENA region and Indian Sub Continent. Today, Verscom offers its carrier partners a single source for niche call termination to fixed and mo-bile networks by leveraging its relationships with local part-ners and entities to provide a quality of service that is of the highest standard. Driven by customer requirements and the demands of an ever chang-ing telecoms market Verscom Carrier Voice opts for suppli-ers that offer exclusivity and price advantageous routes to niche destinations and emerg-ing markets, giving particular focus to the Middle East, Af-rica and Indian Sub Continent. Choosing Verscom Carrier Voice as your preferred voice termination partner, standing by our core values such as eth-ics and integrity, we will pro-vide the best platform for your business to maximize profit-ability and minute growth.

VoxvalleyWe provide VoIP based com-munication applications and customized solutions to SMBs, Enterprises and VoIP telecom-munication providers world-wide. With Commitment to Excellence, rich domain ex-pertise and innovative strate-gies in developing business VoIP applications, Voxvalley is positioning itself as a leading entity in next generation VoIP service & solutions for SMB’s and Enterprises to help with their communication needs of connecting across the globe.

WavetelWe own our subsidiary for call-ing card sales and distribution in UK so we offer more com-petitive rates in UK. By devel-oping and deploying cutting edge technologies, we are able to lower costs and improve call quality for millions of custom-ers across UK. Wavetel cards deliver extremely low local and international rates, clear, relia-ble connections and convenient features such as PIN-less dial-ling and auto recharge. Round the clock customer service simplifies life further with our “always online” support policy.

World HubWorld Hub is an international carrier wholesale operator with customers all across the globe, ranging from Telco, major car-riers, service providers, calling card operators, resellers and ISP’s to terminate international calls without any substantial capital on their existing network infrastructure via VoIP technol-ogy.

YabandWe have put our dedication into the area of VOIP (Voice over In-ternet Protocol) to provide reli-able products and services. We mainly engage in wholesale and retail voice business as well as related software development and technical support services. As of this moment we are in possession of a Tier-1 telecom license in Cambodia. We have been cooperating with hun-dreds of partners around the world, whom are Tier-1 opera-tors or Internet service provid-ers. In 2012 we’ve set up an office in the Netherlands, aim-ing to penetrate the European market to a further level. Ya-band has six soft-switch cent-ers, high-performance servers and stable networks.

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