Alliances: Amdocs supports Mobilicity; Ip.access teams with Qualcomm; and more

Mobilicity, which provides3.5G pay-in-advance services in Canada, deployed Amdocs‘ products using a managed services model to establish its entire OSS and BSS operations. The Amdocs customer experience systems support the entire order-to-cash and order-to-activation processes for Mobilicity, starting with new orders from the Web or retail locations to activating and supporting devices and finally to billing and revenue collection.
Alltel Wireless selected Bytemobile Inc.‘s integrated Web, video and gateway platform to manage its increasing volume and changing mix of traffic on its network. Alltel also will use Bytemobile’s content filtering solution, which will allow parents to manage content on their child’s mobile device.
Femtocell and picocell solutions provider Ip.access signed a femtocell technology development agreement with Qualcomm Inc. The agreement allows ip.access to develop W-CDMA residential and enterprise femtocell products using Qualcomm’s Femtocell Station Modem chipset platform.
Vringo Inc., which provides video ringtones and personalization solutions for mobile phones, formed a content licensing agreement with Muhammad Ali Enterprises L.L.C. The agreement allows Vringo to offer video ringtones based on the career of Muhammad Ali to its subscribers in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Telecommunications Laboratories of Chunghwa Telecomm will use JDSU‘s Signaling Analyzer Real Time product to monitor and analyze end-to-end performance of its 3G/HSPA wireless network and to support the carrier’s planned LTE/4G trials.
Network Norway has chosen Flash Networks‘ Harmony Video Optimization Solution to manage increases in the carrier’s mobile data traffic. Flash said its product provides smoother and faster browsing while reducing network load.
Mobile payments solutions provider Mopay teamed up with Gate2Shop, an e-commerce solutions company. The deal calls for Gate2Shop to integrate Mopay into its portfolio of payment methods, giving its clients the option of making mobile payments.
The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada deployed InnerWireless Inc.‘s Horizon distributed antenna system to power its new CareFusion Pyxis Specimen Collection Verification System. The hospital said it chose to replace its conventional WLAN system with the DAS-based Wi-Fi system to ensure coverage and quality of service throughout its 850,000-square-foot main campus.
Telcordia said it has been chosen by Clearing House for Number Portability Co. Ltd., which is a consortium of five mobile operators in Thailand, to provide mobile number portability and a number lookup service.
Telit Wireless Solutions Inc. said its CC864-DUAL CDMA-1xRTT dual-band cellular machine-to-machine communications module was chosen by Walsh Wireless Solutions L.L.C. to enable its Walsh DataLogger vehicle monitoring device for usage-based car insurance and fleet management applications.
NeoMedia Technologies Inc., which provides mobile barcode scanning solutions, and Samsung Electronics Italy said they plan to collaborate on mobile enterprise services for customers throughout Italy. The partnership calls for NeoMedia’s NeoReader Enterprise application to come pre-loaded on Samsung’s Omnia II devices. The two companies also are assessing the possibility of including the NeoReader product on all Samsung platforms in the future.
Globe Telecom has partnered with SMS GupShup, a popular Social SMS network, to launch the SMS Reply-All Chat service in the Philippines. The service will allow Globe customers to simultaneously communicate with multiple people using short message service. The company said the Reply-All service is similar to the CC and Reply-all functions commonly found in e-mail applications.
IPWireless teamed up with Streamezzo to develop and deploy rich multimedia applications that are consumer friendly designed for mobile TV, video store and forward, interactive voting and other markets based on the 3GPP IMB standard.
V-Soft Inc. and Catch Media Inc. entered a strategic alliance to integrate V-Soft’s mobile and smartphone applications with Catch Media’s B to B Registry, Tracking, Routing and Clearinghouse Play Anywhere platform.