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2 Carrier Community press release Record-Setting Global Carrier Community Meetings

20 Voxvalley press release

8 Metaswitch press release

24 Companies’ Profiles & Latest Registered Companies

20 Digitalk press release

6 PCCW Global press release

T. ReinigCEO & founder, 42com:With our web based plat-form and our software suite we can optimize business processes and reduce the pro-cess costs to a minimum.Based on our state-of-art smartphone app 42call we developed a concept that al-lows phone and data services to be imbedded into corpo-rate communication and customer loyalty context. page 3 >

W. Schmidt, CEO, Carrier Community:2014 has already been a tremendous year for Carrier Community and our annual club meetings. Attendance at our events in Europe, the Middle East and Asia has surpassed our expectations page 2>

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11 Dialogic press release

15 Alaris Labs press release

17 Singapore 2014 GCCM Pictures

22 Industry News

Contents

3 Interview with 42com

13 Industry News

18 iBasis press release

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Carrier Community Press Release

Carrier Community London and Singapore Host Record-Setting Global Carrier Community MeetingsThe industry’s only carrier-exclusive meetings bring together more than 355 operators at both its London and Singapore events

Sarnen, Switzerland – July 2014 – Carrier Communi-ty, an exclusive global industry-networking platform for telecom carriers, is pleased to announce that its 2014 London and Singapore Global Carrier Communi-ty Meetings (GCCM) brought together 170 and 185 net-work operators respectively. This continues the rapid growth of the Carrier Community’s an-nual club GCCM event series focused on giving the industry a central platform for increasing business opportunities across voice, data, SMS, Mobile, MVNO, cable, tel-ehouse, value added services and other related sectors.

320 delegate members representing 40 countries attended The Carrier Commu-nity’s 7th annual London 2014 GCCM in April. In June, 410 delegates representing 40 countries and 185 operators attended its annual Singapore 2014 GCCM. Attend-ance at the London & Singapore 2014 GCCM has grown 98% year-on-year with more opera-tors and delegates enjoying its networking opportuni-ties.

“2014 has already been a tremendous year for Carrier Community and our annual club meetings. Attend-ance at our events in Europe, the Middle East and Asia has surpassed our expectations,” says Wida Schmidt, CEO of Carrier Community. “Our GCCM events are growing because we remain focused on giving carri-ers a platform where they can do business and find success. We look forward to welcoming even more del-egates to our upcoming meetings in Berlin in Septem-ber and around the world in 2015.”

The Carrier Community successfully launched its first annual Middle East Global Carrier Community Meeting (GCCM) in Dubai on the 3rd & 4th March 2014. 240 delegate members attended the event from

35 countries and 140 operators. Delegates were able to network, share industry insights and do business in one place purely for carriers.

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

To find out more GCCMs around the world, please visit http://carriercommunityevents.com

About Carrier CommunityCarrier Community is an exclusive global

industry-networking platform for carriers. It was founded as a central platform to en-hance business opportunities across the in-dustry’s various sectors and services. Com-munity founders believe that the voluntary free exchange of contacts and information via a central portal as well as organised net-working 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 can share ideas, contacts and business information for the mutual benefit of all Members. It hosts annual net-working events throughout the year for its Members such as Global Carrier Community Meetings (GCCM) in London, Dubai, Singapore, Berlin and in 2015 in Africa continent. In addition to the GCCM, Carrier Community is also organising the annual European Network Planning Meeting (E NPM) for ENPM club Members.

The Carrier Community has qualified more than 3,000 members since its inception representing 1,300+Operators from more than 120+ countries. Our members occupy C-Level, VP, Director and Manager Positions at incumbent, mobile and alternative opera-tors.

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Interview with 42com

Q/ What was the reason for founding the company?

42com was founded in June 2002. The idea was, that the telecommunication market was driven by new technologies in the past and will be driven by new by new services in the future. At the same time, the European telecom-munication market was harmonized and offered chances for new businesses.From a technological point of view, it was the time of conversion from circuit switched PSTN to packet switched VoIP.It became clear, that the market needed an easy and efficient tool to manage new and upcoming businesses. It goes without say-ing that such a solution should not have high initial costs in order to leave space for creative ideas.

Q/How did you manage the challenge?

As with many other start-ups, money was a main is-sue in the beginning. This required us to use standard technology from the very beginning.Long before the infamous “cloud”, we came up with a web-based solution. Our software suite 42one, which is on our own platform is still the backbone of our company.As a young and aspiring company, we realized early on that we cannot foresee what will be needed by the market in the future. This meant that our solutions were designed in such a way that they can adapt to future requirements fast and easy.Most of our strengths were developed by market re-quirements: - All telecom technologies (PSTN, VoIP, MVNO, Data, Callingcard, PINless)- Smooth service delivery

-Prepaid and postpaid solutions

-Variety of payment interfaces-Flexible rate plans-Strong in credit- and risk management -Auto-Provisioning

We realized that delivering a management solution to our partners is often not enough. Many sales oriented partners need further tel-ecommunication services. That is why our wholesale department is another column in our company. The wholesale-process enables beneficial business relations for both partners. In recent years, 42com has established a certain profile in that area.Obviously, the dynamic market requires client-solutions for further business mod-els. Our smartphone-app 42call as a show-case and 42sim for managing MVNO´s are some highlights in our portfolio.

Q/What is the special profile of your Wholesale-business?

Firstly, we have numerous European Retail-partners on our platform, which are specialized on interna-tional telecommunication. So we collect and termi-nate a lot of traffic from Europe to the MENA-region. In the MENA-region, we have plenty of direct routes and have a remarkable footprint.This Retail-Service has high demands regarding the quality of service. With our tools for routing and qual-ity monitoring on our platform we can guarantee a high quality for low costs. This distinguishes us from other wholesale-dealers.This commitment towards quality is the base for a sus-tainable wholesale-business. Especially international PTTs, MVNO and MNO appreciate that. We also trans-port their traffic into hard-to-reach-destinations. There is one more thing I would like to emphasize. The prepaid functions and functions like credit – and risk management on our platforms allow us to man-

Interview with 42com

How does 42com sees the future of classic telecommunications

Thomas ReinigCEO & founder of 42com Telecommunication

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age smaller wholesale-partners in a cost-effective way. These are advantages that can make a difference in competition.

Q/How did the company develop?

Initially, it was two people behind the idea. Nowadays, the company has an annual turnover of 30 million Euro and 30 employees. Since 2012, we have a company in the USA, the 42com International Inc. In August 2014, we founded the 42com Middle East Ltd. in Istanbul (Turkey) in order to fulfill the requirements in that region. Another big step in the company´s history was the joining of my brother Alexander Reinig in 2006 as a partner. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, 42com was able to be selected among the 50 fastest growing companies in Germany.

Q/Where does the name 42com come from?

The number 42 has an important role in the IT-world. In Douglas Adams novel “The hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy” there is a supercomputer called “deep thought”. This computer answers to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything with “42”. Behind that, it is the idea that “There are many answers, it is important to ask the right questions!”.For us, this means we don´t come up with random

Thomas ReinigCEO and founder of 42com Telecommunication in BerlinHe has been in telecommunications for more than 15 years. He is responsible for product management, op-erations, and partnerships in 42com.

answers, but try to find the right questions with our partners.

Q/How do you see the future of classic tel-ecommunications?

We should ask “Deep thought” the same question!Basically, I think:Phone and broadband services becomes more and more commodities, where the price is your only concern. Deregu-lation, VoIP und Broadband will play an important role and will lead to a price decline.My two questions for the future are:

1. How can we compete in this price de-cline?2. Are there any different, new business models that can disregard the price de-cline?For both questions, 42com offers solu-tions.With our web based platform and our software suite we can optimize busi-ness processes and reduce the process costs to a minimum.

Based on our state-of-art smartphone app 42call we developed a concept that allows phone and data ser-vices to be imbedded into corporate communication and customer loyalty context. This will create com-pletely new income opportunities. Regarding this, my colleague Nadja Lux will give an introduction on the GCCM.

Interview with 42com

With our web based platform and our software suite we can optimize business processes and reduce the process costs to a minimum.Based on our state-of-art smartphone app 42call we developed a concept that allows phone and data services to be imbedded into corporate communication and customer loyalty context.

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HKT (SEHK:6823) - HONG KONG, August 27, 2014PCCW Global, the international operating division

of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, has extended its support for Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), the world’s leading telecommu-nications non-government organization (NGO), with further contribution for the next three years.

PCCW Global has continuously contributed to TSF since 2008. With this support, TSF has been able to deploy vital emergency response and coordination operations worldwide, providing lifesaving mo-bile and satellite telecommunications to many regions affected by natural and man-made disasters. Over the past few years, TSF has helped earthquake-struck Haitians connect with loved ones, worked with the United Nations (UN) to help co-ordinate relief efforts following Typhoon Haiyan in The Phil-ippines, and opened an Internet school for traumatized Syrian children.

TSF strives to provide emergency telecommunications services anywhere in the world they are required within 24 hours. PCCW Global was the first Asian carrier to support TSF, and with the as-sistance of its contributions TSF has been able to re-spond to 67 emergencies across the globe since 2008, and to train hundreds of international NGOs in the use of telecommunication and information and com-munication technologies for emergency response.

PCCW Global understands the role telecoms can play in helping to coordinate relief efforts and to de-liver critical services to affected areas. “The ground-breaking work that TSF does around the world is

PCCW Global supports emergency telecommunication efforts with further contribution to Télécoms Sans Frontières for the next three years

making a real difference to people in crisis. At PCCW Global, we believe that it is our responsibility to sup-port those in need in any way possible, and as a tel-ecoms provider we are in a unique position to be able to offer invaluable support to organizations like TSF,” said Mr. Mike van den Bergh, Chief Marketing Officer of PCCW Global.

Thanking PCCW Global for its support, TSF’s Presi-dent and Co-founder, Jean-Francois Cazenave, said, “PCCW Global’s support will allow us to continue to expand our operations globally, further our abil-ity to respond to disasters and sustain support to communities in times of crisis. PCCW Global fully recognizes that in humanitarian crises, there is a need for water, food, medical assistance and shelter. This aid would simply not be possible without the power to com-municate. The support of PCCW Global will help TSF to continue saving lives.”

The continued support of PCCW Global will enable TSF to implement

various projects in 2014, including a mHealth pro-gramme for the indigenous people of the Amazon in Brazil, a medical education project in Myanmar train-ing local midwives, and the establishment of the first Emergency Response Hub in Africa to improve emer-gency response capacities in Africa.

In 2013, TSF recognized PCCW Global for its dedica-tion to corporate social responsibility with its Special Recognition Award for CSR. The TSF Corporate Social Responsibility Awards recognize organizations that have demonstrated an exceptional level of commit-ment to corporate social responsibility.

PCCW Global Press Release

PCCW Global’s ongoing support has assisted TSF with their invaluable humanitarian work in Haiti and The Philippines

Over the past few years, TSF has helped earthquake-struck Haitians connect with loved ones, worked with the United Nations (UN) to help co-ordinate relief efforts following Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines, and opened an Internet school for traumatized Syrian children

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With a community of over 3,300 carriers, Telarix is the de-facto standard in electronic infor-mation exchange, allowing customers increased revenue, extended reach, access to the user community, and higher levels of efficiency.

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To achieve scalability and resiliency while maintaining flexibility, communications architectures have, over the last few decades, evolved to favor Layer 3 IP at the edge and Layer 2 (Ethernet), 2.5 (MPLS) or IP technologies in the core. The notable exception to this pervasive trend has been in the data center, where edge interfaces remain firmly rooted in Ethernet. The advent and adoption of new virtualization techniques to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), however, are now driving network architects to seriously rethink their virtual machine and host interconnect infrastructures.

Not only does NFV allow operators to treat compute capacity within an individual data center as a single processing resource, it traverses physical boundaries, enabling machines in other buildings, cities and countries to be leveraged on-demand. These global CPU resources are considered collective computing power, affording any application the ability to borrow capacity -- and return it back to the pool -- at any time.

Layer 3 IP routing techniques should be the obvious choice, in such a potentially dynamic environment. Network architects, however, have made two critical assumptions that have led to many existing data center interconnect infrastructures being implemented in a far more static, potentially limited and arguably more complex manner.

Virtual machine misconceptionsWhile legitimate in theory, early assumptions regarding virtual data center applications and operation are now proving to be flawed.

Metaswitch Press Release

Metaswitch building hyper data centers for network functions virtualization

First, there was the continued concern that legacy applications leveraging non-IP transport techniques would still demand a presence in these cloud environments: that services running on Solaris or HP-UX -- too old to be ported to x86 but seemingly too irreplaceable to simply discount - would still need a home in tomorrow’s data center.

Secondly, without historical insight, cloud architects have been forced to build a common network infrastructure with worst-case scenarios in mind. In

the case of virtualized environments, this is the live migration of a virtual machine from one physical host server to another without resulting in an application connectivity break and certainly without operator intervention. With the perception that TCP connections cannot be torn down, this requirement necessitates temporary IP address duplication across potentially active network interfaces.

With these considerations in mind, infrastructure managers forced the hands of internetworking

engineers, resulting in the implementation of a complex interwoven mesh of fixed Layer 2 tunnels and overlay virtual LANs. While this was a suitable short-term Band-Aid, it’s far from a long-term strategy for supporting service expansion on the scale of NFV.

A virtual realityIt is becoming clear that there is no place for legacy applications in Web-centric data centers. These services will be replaced by efficient cloud-centric variants that incorporate the new demands and habits of today’s users, their devices and their preferred interfaces.

new data center applications are being designed specifically for cloud environments. Created natively using Web programming methods and patterns, these services are built to be clustered in such a way that new instances can be simply “spun up” on-demand, if there is a need for additional capacity or redundancy or in a fail-over situation

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Metaswitch Press ReleaseMore importantly, it is becoming increasingly clear that the demand for ultra-mobile virtual machine instances is simply not materializing. The fact is that most data center operators have simply not found the need for live VM migration. With the majority of VM-based applications, there is no inherent need to maintain state, and therefore it is appropriate to create a new virtual machine instance, as required, in a new location, rather than attempt a hot move.

Moreover, new data center applications are being designed specifically for cloud environments. Created natively using Web programming methods and patterns, these services are built to be clustered in such a way that new instances can be simply “spun up” on-demand, if there is a need for additional capacity or redundancy or in a fail-over situation. When architected appropriately, applications demanding state maintenance store them in repositories that are shared by the cluster, regardless of where the individual VM instances are instantiated.

Step up the stack and simplify with IP and BGPIndustry specifications are frequently built on corner cases, and those defining data center interconnect infrastructures -- even today -- are not immune. This often leads to bloated protocols and complex implementation best practices. Indeed, for this reason, it is not uncommon for standards to miss the market they were addressing or simply become too convoluted to deploy, leading stovepipe proprietary variants to take a firm root.

There is no excuse for this in the data center, where we can look to the genuinely large-scale scalable networks we have built, including public Internet infrastructures, and leverage this know-how -firmly

grounded in Layer 3- to meet the demands of tomorrow’s server interconnects.

With open-source variants widely available, network engineers can cost-effectively implement the BGP process within host machines. Advertising a single host per VM, convergence times are fast enough even to meet the requirements of any live migration scenario. While the need to peer every distinct endpoint in a fully meshed configuration could quickly undermine the performance of BGP route discovery and advertisement techniques, the addition of a standardized route reflector, preferably in a virtualized form (i.e. a vRR), would quickly alleviate this.

As data center interconnect demands grow, implementing routing affords the ability to decompose distinct operational functions, centralizing not only the routing intelligence of individual BGP endpoints but also overall network topology.

A logical direction for carrier data centersProject Calico is an open-source solution helping drive the migration to NFV by enabling hyperscale virtual networking. Its IP-centric architecture integrates seamlessly with cloud orchestration systems, such as OpenStack, to enable secure and scalable IP communication between virtual machines. Large data center operators already agree that Layer 3 is the only way forward. While their implementations are proprietary, the global carrier community will, as always, benefit from de facto standardization with community-driven initiatives such as Calico.

To learn more, visit www.projectcalico.org.

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Dialogic Press Release

Diameter, Meet Your FutureDiameter Signaling Controllers (DSCs) are taking on a critical role in modern networks. Originally developed to route Diameter messages, the next generation of DSCs has the potential to take on more responsibility to help service providers take their networks to the next level. The BorderNet™ Diameter Services Helix is a next generation DSC, and with it, Dialogic has taken a unique approach in addressing the challenges service provid-ers are seeing with the growth and diversity in signaling traffic within and between mo-bile core networks.

While Diameter is taking center stage in 4G, other protocols such as SS7 and RADIUS are equally important and allow customers to gain access, authenticate and consume services in today’s networks. Earlier generation DSC offerings aren’t providing the flexibility to easily handle mul-tiprotocol environments nor are they giving service providers the kind of platform they need to help them innovate services and deploy networks faster.

Helix takes a unique approach with a carrier-class platform built for rapid service innova-tion and orchestration by ad-dressing signaling challenges with an integrated solution that seamlessly combines multiprotocol interworking, Diameter Edge Agent and Di-ameter Routing Agent features unlike other options on the market that rely on bolt-on modules or complex script driven schemes.

A flexible service orchestration framework is at the core of Helix making multiprotocol, any-to-any in-terworking and service enhancement of Diameter, SS7 and RADIUS messages possible. The highly flex-ible routing and security features are integrated in the signaling orchestration architecture making Helix unique in its ability to provide extensive functionality on a single platform.

Thomas Schroer, Director – Service Provider Marketing at Dialogic said: “Helix expands the possible use cases supported by legacy DSCs beyond traditional DEA and DRA applications. Helix supports interworking sce-

narios involving Diameter, RADIUS and SS7 to support initiatives like 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi roam-ing. Helix’s multiprotocol interworking ability supports both 4G-to-4G and 3G-to-4G roaming scenarios and allows Wi-Fi operators to extend roaming coverage with more partners, at the same time reducing the need for stand-alone gateways in their networks”.

Service enhancement is made possible with Helix through real-time integration with ex-ternal subscriber and policy data repositories

and OSS/BSS platforms via LDAP, SOAP, and HTTP.

Its ability to interwork, mediate and enhance message flows on the same platform can help service provid-ers roll out new services faster and avoid costly delays

and additional development charges with network deploy-ments by fixing vendor in-compatibility issues between nodes in 3G, 4G, IPX and Wi-Fi networks. Dialogic is told by customers that specialized development work by their infrastructure vendors to fix interoperability problems, can cost them anywhere from tens of thousands of dollars to over a hundred thousand dollars in

some cases! Making these changes themselves with Helix puts them in control, speeds up deployment and accelerates time-to-revenue.

Helix was selected recently by GTA, the premier, full-service communications provider serving Guam to help implement its 4G roaming services. GTA selected Helix because of its flexibility and ease of use and to help them establish secure roaming interconnects with both IPX providers and select wireless operators.

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Industry news

Swisscom said the Com-petition Commission has given the go-ahead for its takeover of Pub-liGroupe, which will take place on 05 September 2015. Swisscom said that after the extended bid period came to an end on 25 August, 97.11 percent of all PubliGroupe shares involved in the bid were tendered. This means Swisscom’s interest in PubliGroupe has now reached 98.37 percent.Because it owns more than 98 percent, Swiss-com will request that all shares not tendered should be cancelled. All remaining minor-ity shareholders will re-ceive CHF 214 per share in compensation. The total acquisition price amounts to around CHF 475 million.

Swisscom owns 98.37% of PubliGroupe; merger cleared

Once the takeover is com-plete, the Swisscom and PubliGroupe joint ven-ture Local Group, which includes Swisscom Direc-tories, LTV Yellow Pages and local.ch, will be con-trolled by Swisscom. This will have no impact on the management and or-ganisation of local.ch. Edi Bahler will remain as CEO of the Local Group. As an-nounced, Swisscom and Tamedia intend to merge their directories business once the takeover has been completed.Swisscom will sell off PubliGroupe’s media par-ticipations and evaluate every option for its other participations by the end of the year. PubliGroupe Holding will remain in existence for the time be-ing.

The European Com-mission (EC) is said to be examining the deal struck between Telefon-ica Germany and mobile virtual network opera-tor (MVNO) Drillisch to ensure it is line with the commitments made by the former to gain regu-latory approval for its EUR8.55 billion (USD11.9 billion) acquisition of Dutch telecom operator KPN’s German mobile unit E-Plus.As previously reported by CommsUpdate, ear-lier this month it was revealed that Drillisch, through its wholly-owned subsidiary MS Mobile Services, had concluded a mobile bit-stream access (MBA) MVNO agreement with Telefonica Germany on 20 June 2014. Under the deal, Telefonica said it would grant MS Mobile access to up to 30% of the network capacity that is available after its merger with E-Plus, for all pre-sent and future tech-nologies. The basic term of the agreement is five years, though this can be extended by means of two five-year call options held by MS Mobile. In re-turn, MS Mobile agreed

EC verifying Telefonica Germany/Drillisch deal28 Aug 2014

to take over at least 20% of the present and future network capacity for new customers for the basic term of five years, using a glide path.Now, according to To-tal Telecom, which cites EC spokesman Antoine Colombani: ‘The Com-mission needs to verify whether the buyer and the commercial condi-tions negotiated fulfill the requirements set out in the commitments, and to approve the buyer.’ While there had been some speculation in local me-dia that the EC was in fact planning to re-examine the entire Telefonica/E-Plus deal, Mr Colombani has seemingly put paid to such rumours, noting that the analysis of the Telefonica/Drillisch deal is standard procedure and stating: ‘The Commission is not re-examining [the Telefonica/E-Plus] case.’While there has been no indication of a time-frame for a decision re-garding the suitability of the agreement between Telefonica and Drillisch, the spokesman has con-firmed that the EC will disclose its conclusions once they have been reached.

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

Osnova Telecom’s torturous route towards the Long Term Evolution (LTE) market has taken a step in the right direction, with Roskomnadzor awarding the telco a block of 290,000 numbers for use with its still-to-launch 4G network. According to the Prime business news agency, the number allocation uses the ‘999’ prefix. Although Osnova has rolled out LTE technology in 19 Russian cities, its commercial launch remains pending, with regulatory red-tape hampering its efforts to date.

Osnova awarded number block28 Aug 2014

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Alaris Labs Press Release

Alaris Labs Announces Successful inVoice Deployment on Tier 1 Network

With the new system in place, the company can quickly respond to any market movements - make immediate use of new termination opportunities, react to vendor rate changes, adjust client offers to remain competitive and increase overall profitability of its interconnect business.

Alaris Labs, a telecom software developing company based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is proud to announce successful termination of its voice interconnect BSS solution inVoice rollout on the network of one of the national voice and data operators in the CIS.

Deployment targeted overall optimization of rate management operations and routing configuration, a standard business enhance-ment task for a typical interconnect car-rier, yet an intricate challenge when accom-plished on a countrywide network level.

Within rate management optimization the following objectives were pursued: in-stant vendor ratesheet import and analysis, smart dial code mapping, client rate plan generation, and faultless partner charges verification.

Another task approached was tailoring routing patterns for a geographically distrib-uted network enabling efficiency enhance-ment in existent TDM channels usage and providing for easy comparison of direct and transit routs profitability.

Special emphasis was laid on creating effective user-friendly tools for analysis and forecasting of network traffic structure and volumes and integration of coun-try-specific functionality required to process domestic traffic.

Deployment of an intelligent rate man-agement system led to considerable overall labour savings in daily routine operations and contributed to increased performance efficiency with significantly narrowed room for human error due to higher rate processing automation.

Routing optimization module was inte-grated into the multi-vendor switching en-vironment to provide the possibility to ana-lyze current routing patterns in any of the switches and suggest optimal routes based on user-defined search logics.

Deployment also included rollout of in-terconnect billing system providing for processing of more than 10 billion minutes per month and further scalable if needed.

Traffic analysis and reporting based on OLAP-technology offers access to dozens of selected layouts within seconds and create highly customized reports based on traffic behavior.

With the new system in place, the company can quick-ly respond to any market movements - make immediate use of new termination opportunities, react to vendor rate changes, adjust client offers to remain competi-tive and increase overall profitability of its interconnect business.

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Burlington, MA - 08/18/2014 - iBasis, a KPN company, today announced that Claro Peru, a leading mobile operator in Peru and subsidiary of America Movil, is utilizing iBasis Hosted Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) solution and the iBasis LTE Signaling eXchange (LSX) to provide international 4G/LTE Roaming for mobile users in Peru. The service enables subscribers from around the world to enjoy 4G LTE quality and speed while traveling to Peru and under Claro Perus 4G/LTE coverage. It also provides Claro Peru with access to the iBasis global LTE footprint, which includes more than 100 LTE networks worldwide.

Claro Peru is the third America Movil operator in the region to implement the iBasis LTE Roaming solution. Claro Brazil and Telcel Mexico announced their participation in the iBasis LSX in May and June, respectively. The hosted DRA solution from iBasis enables operators to quickly implement 4G/LTE Roaming without the capital investment and resource requirement of deploying DRAs in their own network. With DRAs distributed strategically around the world, iBasis offers a fast and convenient way for operators to begin offering LTE roaming.

Our hosted DRA solution enables mobile operators to offer 4G/LTE roaming quickly and with significantly lower up-front investment in equipment and less strain on their operational resources, said Willem Offerhaus, CEO of iBasis. As demand for 4G/LTE continues to grow, we are able to be very responsive to operators needs and help them meet that demand very efficiently.

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iBasis Implements Hosted Diameter Signaling Solution to Enable 4G LTE Roaming for Claro Peru

About the iBasis LTE Signaling eXchange

The iBasis LTE Signaling eXchange (LSX) service provides a single point of access to iBasis live 4G (LTE) signaling network with Diameter Routing Agents in key locations around the world. Through direct connections and its open peering policy, iBasis offers operators a global LTE Roaming footprint that reaches more than 100 LTE networks through a single IPX interconnection that supports multiple voice and data services. iBasis also offers trial environments for testing LTE interworking, roaming scenarios and VoLTE.

About iBasisA wholly-owned KPN company, iBasis is a leading international voice carrier and provider of value-added services for mobile operators. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of voice termination and data services, including messaging, signaling, and roaming, for many of the worlds largest fixed and mobile operators, as well as voice-over-broadband service providers. Find out more about iBasis at www.ibasis.com and joint the conversation at lteroaming.info, the iBasis blog site providing insights about LTE roaming, VoLTE, IPX and related topics.

About Claro PeruClaro Peru is a subsidiary of America Movil, the leading telecommunications services company in Latin America, where it is present in 18 countries. At the end of June, 2014 America Movil had 339 million subscribers in the region. Find out more about Claro Peru www.claro.com.pe.

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Digitalk Press release

DIGITALK, a trusted provider of Carrier, Consumer and Mobile Cloud solutions to retail and wholesale communications service providers worldwide, has announced new investment and development in the Carrier Cloud Business Intelligence infrastructure. The new architecture provides high performance data discovery, analysis and reporting across any scale of wholesale telecoms business with billions of records processed in seconds. The solution is seamlessly integrated to DIGITALK’s Carrier Cloud infrastructure with a suite of built-in reports, dashboards and self-service visual data analysis tools.

Combining high performance data discovery, analysis, reporting and dashboards, the DIGITALK’s Carrier Business Intelligence provides new insights into key traffic, performance and business metrics highlighting changing trends and includes comparative data enabling operators to quickly identify urgent calls to action.

DIGITALK Announces New Cloud Business Intelligence Infrastructure

“Providing effective Business Intelligence is not about simply providing an extensive set of reports“ said Oliver Roberts, DIGITALK Product Manager for the Carrier Cloud, “with vast amounts of data generated daily, it’s essential that Business Intelligence dashboards distil the most important and relevant information and present it in a way that is meaningful to the user”.

Reports and dashboards can be accessed from any smartphone device or tablet ensuring that sales, finance and operations have access to the essential reports from any location at any time. Mobile reports and dashboards can be customised to specific user requirements to provide relevant performance metrics.

Justin Norris, DIGITALK co-founder and CEO, commented “Access to incisive business intelligence wherever and whenever it’s required is the key to success for wholesale operators and DIGITALK is committed to providing a class leading solution to our Carrier Cloud customers”.

Access to incisive business intelligence wherever and whenever it’s required is the key to success for wholesale operators

Voxvalley Technologies Press Release

Voxvalley Technologies is a VoIP solution provider with a legacy of innovation and proven track record of delivering high-quality voice services.

Founded in 2010, Voxvalley delivers VoIP services around the globe including mobile dialers, hybrid dialers, softswitch, PBX, as well as other communication services. Our solutions enable providers to build robust and scalable networks for the delivery of next generation VoIP services for their subscribers. Voxvalley is solely focused on delivering services that reduce costs and optimize productivity for customers. We have been successful in delivering on our vision and this has helped us to build a diverse and growing customer base.

Mr. Sajjan Malik, Chief Executive Officer of Voxvalley Technologies, said, “We believe in strong partnerships

and have relationships with global technology leaders, who recommend us as a partner of choice. We have strategic partners and resellers in over 25 countries, which use our unique and feature-rich solutions to serve the growing needs of their customers."

With expertise encompassing all channels of VoIP communications, our vision is to leverage the ongoing proliferation of low-cost broadband Internet access to build the VoIP infrastructure of tomorrow. F or Voxvalley, the next-generation of communication solutions is not limited by a traditional carrier

approach or legacy technology. We are focused on delivering the latest innovations in VoIP services and the most advanced communications in the world."

We believe in strong partnerships and have relationships with global technology leaders, who recommend us as a partner of choice.

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Six private companies in China have been granted licences that will allow them to offer mobile ser-vices via reseller agree-ments, in a move that further eases the state monopoly on China’s tel-ecom sector.MVNO licences were granted to 19 companies earlier this year by the MIIT (Industry and In-formation Technology Ministry) in an attempt to foster competition in the market, thereby driv-ing innovation.Companies will be per-mitted to sell repackaged voice, SMS, MMS and data services under their own brands once they have acquired them from the three major operators.The MIIT has stated that

China grants more MVNO licences to ease monopoly

the licences have been issued under a pilot pro-gramme, adding that it laid out the framework for opening up the telecoms sector to private firms over a year ago.Prior to filing an applica-tion for a licence, compa-nies are required to sign a cooperation agreement with one of the three main providers, and may also have to update their charging and customer service practices.Currently, China’s three state operators provide the country’s 1.2 billion connections. China Mo-bile leads the market with 790 million, China Uni-com takes second place with 295 million and Chi-na Telecom comes third with 190 million.

Industry newsSources:www.telecompaper.comwww.telegeography.comwww.developingtelecoms.com

Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has con-firmed plans to create a fund for the develop-ment of telecommuni-cations in rural areas, indicating that funding will be linked to plans to increase the amount taken from mobile op-erators’ profits by the government. In a presi-dential communication on Saturday quoted on the website of telecoms ministry Mintel, Correa said the planned fund will emphasise promot-ing rural communities’

access to telephony and developing the ongoing Community Info-centres programme and computer access schemes which pro-vide internet access to all citizens especially those on low incomes. The President affirmed that he has sent to the National Assembly a draft amendment to the Telecommunications Act which would give the state a direct 12% slice of the profits of mobile operators, while a 3% slice would be distributed to the telecoms companies’ workers and their families.

President announces rural telecoms development fund

Telekom Malaysia has reported a ‘healthy’ financial performance in the first six months of 2014, with group revenue rising 8% year-on-year to MYR5.442 billion (USD1.67 billion). With the telco attributing the increased turnover in part to growth in internet services revenue, which was up 13.3% against H1 2013 at MYR1.453 billion, data revenues were also higher than in the year-earlier period, at MYR1.250 billion (H1 2013: MYR1.191 billion). However, turnover in the fixed voice sector declined in the six months ended 30 June 2014, falling to M YR1.768 billion down from MYR1.814 billion in the corresponding period of 2013.The telco reported that its operating profit was up 4.4% y-o-y, at MYR655.7 million, meanwhile, on the back of the increase in revenue, while profit before tax (PBT) surged by 24.9% to MY589.0 million in H1 2014. Profit after tax and non-controlling interest (PATAMI) for the period under review was marginally lower against the first half of 2013 at MYR424.7 million, however, with TM citing the absence of tax incentives related to its High Speed Broadband (HSBB) project as the reason for this.

Internet services boost Telekom Malaysia’s first half revenues

Echoing the revenue trend, fixed broadband accesses were up year-on-year, with TM reporting a total of 2.251 million high speed internet customers at the end of June 2014. Of that total, 673,000 were taking the service over its fibre-based infrastructure, up from 577,000 a year earlier, with xDSL connections numbering 1.578 million, almost unchanged from 1.576 million. Fixed voice lines declined to 4.321 million, however, with traditional copper accesses declining by 4% to 3.648 million, down from 3.800 million at end-June 2013.Commenting on the company’s performance, TM’s group CEO Tan Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa noted: ‘I’m pleased to announce that for the first half of 2014, we recorded positive improvements with a strong set of results as compared to the corresponding period last year … The continued growth affirms the progress of our current and past marketing, operational and financial initiatives which were well planned and executed. We have identified key areas which are pivotal to our continued growth and are pleased to see that our performance has justified our focused efforts in those segments.’

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Companies’ Profiles & Latest registered companies

3G Telekom3G Telekom is dedicated to make each customer as successful as it can be. Our voice and data services of-fer unparalleled reliability, security, and value and our outstanding customer ser-vice will leave you wonder-ing why you ever trusted your business to anyone else. Our Wholesale Voice product is aimed at provid-ers whose wholesale and retail customers require stable QoS with aggressive market-based pricing. Cou-pled with our dynamic real-time routing capabilities and strong buying power 3G Telecom are well positioned to offer a voice product which not only meet pric-ing requirements but en-sures a stable, high quality voice proposition.

HAWE Telekom Sp. z o.o.a fully-owned subsidiary of HAWE S.A., an independ-ent Polish company, whose shares are traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.HAWE Telekom has built and owns HAWE National Fibreoptic Network - over 3600 km of own cables in own terrestial ducts in Po-land. The network reaches cross-border interconnec-tions with Germany, Rus-sia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, and is being con-stantly expanded. We sell long-distance dark fibre (on the basis of various contract models) and complemen-tary services: equipment installation, colocation and maintenance. We also pro-vide transmission circuits and IP services. We are the leader in providing transit across Poland. We success-fully implement the carri-er-to-carrier strategy. Our customers are carriers and ISPs only.

JeraSoft the leading developer and integrator of high quality Billing software and VoIP so-lutions. JeraSoft was found-ed in 2004 as an engineering company and is currently servicing customers on 5 continents. We are head-quartered in Europe with branch offices in USA, UK and Ukraine. Our objective is development and imple-mentation of high-perfor-mance VoIP solutions and Billing software for modern Telecom operators. We focus on strong and long-lasting business relationships with reliable companies on the telecommunications mar-ket to provide stable and cost-effective billing and management tools. Our pre-mier product, VCS, has been successfully implemented worldwide and has became the centerpiece of our cus-tomers’ Telecom solutions. As an engineering company we heavily emphasize tech-nical support and integra-tion work helping our family of clients with their custom implementations. JeraSoft team of experienced Tel-ecom engineers is looking forward to welcoming you into our customer family. We are here to help you be successful in your Telecom business.

EcocarrierEcocarrier provides Premi-um Non-CLI call termina-tion for wholesale and retail call traffic on direct routes Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan, Mozambique, Guinea, Tunisia etc. Our IntelliDR Network tech-nology and effective 24x7 NOC enable us to maintain reliable high performance consistently. We carry very large volume of call traffic to these destinations daily

for tier1 and Tier2 carriers and service providers. We seek cooperation with suit-ably situated companies/individuals to build direct routes in countries world-wide. Additionally, we seek to build Strategic Alliance between Ecocarrier and established players in the telecom space in countries/markets worldwide to re-sell our managed services for retail telecom service provision. Please view full presentation on Ecocarrier Managed Services by Inter-active PDF at www.ecocar-rier.com

Swiftnet LTD Telekom Malaysia UK LTDAcord TelecomMarco Polo Communications Group, IncReliance Communications ARCINUM GmbH Jaina Systems Network, Inc Calltrade Carrier Services Fuxion Dhiraagu Pvt LtdCITIC Telecom XOTel SIAKortel Communications Inc.COLT 2ConnectLongphoneTelecom New Zealand

Latest registered companies

Kryptos Global is an emerg-ing telecom player offering cutting-edge turnkey voice solutions for the telecom industry and is a part of Multi-million Dollar Kryp-tos Group. Kryptos Global of-fers competitive and flexible Global Voice termination op-tions by leveraging its multi-million dollar network and connecting businesses se-curely. Our telecom services encompassing wholesale as well as retail voice are both affordable and enjoyable.

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