CBOSS in Germany
MVNECO GmbH, a German mobile virtual
network enabler, has selected CBOSS Corporation
for the full outsourcing and maintenance
of its end-to-end convergent industrial
IT infrastructure.
Mobile service penetration in Europe has exceeded
100 percent long ago. Telecoms are
furiously competing for subscribers, striving
to provide individualized services rather
than using traditional customer acquisition
schemes continuously becoming more expensive.
At the same time, the market is witnessing
active development of niche service
providers, the so called MVNOs, mobile
virtual network operators that sell services
under their own brands, using networking
resources of large mobile network operators
(MNOs). As a rule, MVNOs, in contrast to
large telecoms, place greater focus on service
personalization working in niche segments
rather than in mass markets and preferring to
deliver convergent service bundles.
In addition to MVNOs and MNOs, there is
another player in the telecommunications
market. Mobile virtual network enablers
(MVNEs) mediate between MVNOs with
comparatively small subscriber bases and
larger MNOs. The scheme suits both. MNOs
benefit from the more efficient use of existing
network resources and lower customer acquisition
cost. Moreover, instead of working with
dozens of MVNOs and constantly resolving
integration issues, an MNO receives an opportunity
to bring down operational costs,
interacting with one or two MVNEs and leaving
it to them to re-configure their platforms
to the specifics of different MVNOs. On the
other side, MVNOs can concentrate on service
promotion, leaving technical issues to
MVNEs.
In the growing B2B virtual network market
MVNECO GmbH selected to be an MVNE
that offers MVNOs the whole range of managed
IT services ranging from provisioning
and maintenance of the entire IT infrastructure
to integration with MNOs, implementation
of complex business requirements, and
development of perfectly balanced service
bundles. The interaction with MVNEs allows
virtual operators to reduce capital expenditures
and business start-up time, while efficiently
using the telecommunications expertise
and convergent solution of the MVNE.
MVNECO’s main goal is to provide MVNOs
with the MNO-level quality of services and
minimum customer acquisition and support
cost per subscriber. To achieve the goal, the
company needed a solution capable of supporting
several virtual operators on a single
shared platform, which means separate ac-
cess, tariffs, services, etc. for each MVNO.
Selecting the solution, MVNECO also paid
particular attention to its reliability, integrity,
convergence, and ability to automate customers’
any business process associated with provisioning
of mobile, fixed-line and value-added
services. In addition, the company was keenly
interested in the outsourcing of the solution to
reduce time-to-market and business risks.
Acting as a single provider of the entire IT infrastructure,
CBOSS Corporation not only proposed
the solution fully meeting MVNECO’s
requirements, but also implemented its full outsourcing
and maintenance in Managed Service
mode. The project was launched in CBOSS’
state-of-the-art technopolis located in Helsinki,
Finland and allowed MVNECO to minimize
capital, time, and HR costs. The solution gave
the company an opportunity to effectively manage
its resources and from the very beginning
to concentrate on relations with customers,
which is especially important when entering the
market featuring relatively low profitability and
fierce competition characterizing today’s European
telecommunications market.
The kernel of this hardware-software solution
is the real-time convergent prepaid billing
system CBOSSrtb built on the HP NonStop
platform featuring unsurpassed reliability.
CBOSSrtb enables independent management
of subscriber bases, tariffs and business rules
of several MVNOs operating in different telecommunications
standards. The system supports
GSM, TDMA, CDMA, GPRS, and 3G
on a single platform. MVNECO is planning
to enable operations of GSM, UMTS, and
PSTN operators.
MVNECO’s solution also includes various
value-added products and mediation systems
such as the external resources management
system CBOSSmdDrive, Internet platform
CBOSSip, messaging centers CBOSSsms,
CBOSSmms, CBOSSussd, call management
systems CBOSSmissedCall and CBOSScallback,
and assisting intelligent peripheral
CBOSSaip, enabling implementation of voice
menus for different services.
The CBOSS solution allows MVNECO to
provide its customers with:
• Convergent billing
• Free choice of functionalities and services
• Attractive prices: the service provider’s
costs are optimized as the single platform
is shared by several operators
• Unsurpassed reliability
• Fast time-to-market: less than 5 months to
start the first MVNO, including the integration
with the MNO’s network and launch of
services.
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WOLFGANG KOHL, MANAGING DIRECTOR.
“The CBOSS solution fully meets requirements
of the MVNE business. It is very reliable,
highly scalable, and has low TCO, which
makes it the ideal choice for us”, said Wolfgang
Kohl, Managing Director at MVNECO
GmbH. “It is also remarkable that the solution
has been deployed in record time”.
MVNECO GmbH is a headquarted in Düsseldorf,
Germany, virtual mobile network
enabler (MVNE) provisioning operations of
European mobile virtual network operators
(MVNOs).
CBOSS Corporation is a world leader in
the development of innovative convergent IT
solutions for end-to-end automation of telecommunications
enterprises, delivering a
competitive edge to telecoms on all inhabited
continents.
CBOSS Corporation offers the full range of
equipment, system and application software
and professional services, including consulting,
turnkey implementation, technical
support, staff training and IT outsourcing,
providing telcos with guaranteed operations
quality while minimizing operational and
capital expenditures.
CBOSS can supply operators, service providers
and MVNOs with all components of IT
infrastructure and/or services, as well as with
full-scale outsourcing options, providing a reliable
single point of responsibility.
For details, please visit www.cbossgroup.com
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