Pipeline Publishing, Volume 5, Issue 8
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What Now? The Future of Mobile Devices
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share, thereby falling below the NYSE’s minimum continued listing standards. Nortel announced that if the average closing price does not sufficiently improve, the company may consider presenting a proposal to its shareholders for a consolidation of its outstanding common shares at its annual meeting planned for Spring, 2009. Nortel’s shares have fallen more than 97% in recent months.

And now for some good news…

ConceptWave Software, Inc. was recently awarded the CMS Business Partner of the Year Award by HP. Why? For filling a gap in HP’s “Next-Gen OSS” portfolio with ConceptWave’s Order Care product, a highly-configurable catalog management and order handling platform, that’s why. The companies

Perhaps soon, we can expect to see the iPhones up for sale in gas stations and rest-stop vending machines.


Paynter, Intec VP of Asia Pacific. Intec is also celebrating the appointment of Andrew Meyler, formerly of Orchestria Ltd., as the new VP Customer Services. “Andrew comes to us with an impressive track record of customer management and strong customer relationships, especially with Tier 1 and Tier 2 operators,” commented Intec CEO Andrew Taylor.

TM Forum has announced Release 8.0 of the Business Process Framework (eTOM), which they feel is a “landmark version” because it incorporates the itSMF’s ITIL best practices to


feel that their combined efforts will allow CSPs who choose to leverage this joint solution to enjoy accelerated service rollouts and reduced provisioning times. "Being honored by HP as a CMS Business Partner of the year is a testament to ConceptWave’s industry leading order management suite of solutions,” said Zarar Rana, CEO and President for ConceptWave. “Our ability to rapidly provision and provide real-time end-to-end process visibility ensures that HP’s customers worldwide can leverage ConceptWave Order Care to successfully meet market demand for more services and products.” Congratulations, ConceptWave!

Congratulations are also in order to Intec, which has won the telecomasia Readers’ Choice Award 2008 for BSS vendor of the Year. Criteria for voting included: overall quality of innovation and contribution to technology advancement; market acceptance; revenue growth and contribution to overall industry growth; vision and industry leadership; and market performance in 2008. “We’re absolutely delighted to receive this prestigious award,” commented Graeme


address the long-standing disconnect between IT and traditional communications operations environments. This newest version of the framework incorporates feedback from the joint report “ITIL and eTom – Building Bridges,” written by both TM Forum and itSMF. "Because ITIL is now embedded throughout the functional decompositions of the Business Process Framework, TM Forum can help service providers and their customers create a single, consistent process model for IT and operations," says TM Forum President Martin Creaner.

Comptel Corporation scored a good customer win when one of Greece’s largest telecommunications operators, WIND Hellas, chose Comptel Provisioning and Activation Solution, which automates the provisioning and activation processes. "We are pleased to have been selected by WIND Hellas. We are also very proud that we managed to live up to their high expectations by delivering the project in a short time-frame, a good illustration of Comptel's time-to-market and

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