Amdocs

CANNES, France-Amdocs, a provider of customer-care, billing and order-management, introduced Amdocs 3G, a platform designed to assist carriers as they adapt to third-generation wireless services. According to the company, Amdocs 3G is made up of five integrated application suites with …

ST. LOUIS-Deutsche Telekom selected Amdocs to implement a fraud management solution for local, long-distance and international traffic, as a value-added service for DT’s entire customer base. Amdocs said its Fraud Management System detects potential fraud, issues alerts, gathers evidence of …

RESTON, Va.-Under a new seven-year outsourcing agreement, Amdocs will provide Nextel Communications Inc.’s domestic operations with billing and customer-care services, including software, support, a data center and billing operations. Amdocs said its service will cover Nextel’s 6 million wireless subscribers …

NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting and Amdocs Ltd. today announced an alliance to combine their management, technology, billing and customer-service operations for the communications market. Andersen, a management and technology consulting company, and Amdocs, a billing and order-management business, said they would …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Amdocs unveiled an enhanced version of its IAF Horizon solution to support mobile Internet Protocol services and allow mobile service providers to capture new revenue streams via advanced support for revenue sharing, sponsoring, m-commerce and location-based services. “IAF …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs, a customer care, billing and order management solutions supplier, reported an agreement with Sprint PCS to provide and support billing systems. The initial phase of the agreement calls for Amdocs to provide systems implementation and ongoing support services …

WASHINGTON-Customer care, billing and order management solutions provider Amdocs and Hewlett-Packard Co. reported plans to provide a real-time, prepaid billing solution capable of running on public switched telephone and Internet Protocol networks. Amdocs said the solution will integrate HP’s OpenCall …

NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream’s chairman and chief executive officer said. Although focused on expanding its domestic footprint …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a customer care, billing and order management provider, completed its previously announced acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a provider of Internet Protocol customer care and billing software. “This merger establishes the industry’s most complete business systems …

Star One AG, a Germany-based wireless broadband telecommunications company, received $72 million in its second round of funding from investors headed by Incepta International. Star One was awarded 158 license areas to build and operate a point-to-multipoint broadband wireless network …

ST. LOUIS-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Amdocs announced a global alliance reseller agreement under which Amdocs will resell and support the Sun platform. Under terms of the agreement, Amdocs’ Ensemble customer-care and billing system will be deployed in the Sun environment …

NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., proceeds with a planned initial public offering scheduled for late …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. announced Sept. 6 it plans to acquire International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc., Stamford, Conn., for about $182 million in Amdocs stock. Amdocs provides customer care, billing and order-management solutions for telecommunications carriers. ITDS offers outsourced and service …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system that provides control and detection of a wide spectrum of alternately billed telephone fraud, including credit …

Amdocs Ltd., a St. Louis-based provider of billing and related systems to telecommunications carriers, on June 7 sold 20 million shares of its common stock, priced at $22.44 each, in a secondary offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Of …

Belgium Belgacom and Amdocs announced an agreement under which Belgacom will deploy Amdocs’ order-management system to handle ordering services for its convergent lines of business, including wireline, data services and paging. Amdocs’ order-management system provides a single point of contact …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a provider of billing and related information systems to telecommunications carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a secondary offering of 20 million shares of its common stock, which trades on the New York …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active …

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. announced Amdocs Ltd. will implement a new converged customer-care and billing system. The solution is based on Ensemble, Amdocs’ convergent customer-care and billing product and is customized to address Cantel’s specific marketing, organizational and technical needs. “The …

Puerto Rico A consortium led by GTE Corp. signed a definitive pact to purchase for $375 million a controlling interest of 50 percent plus one share in the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. from the government there. GTE made the initial …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs said it enhanced its customer-care and billing platform to support local-fixed line ordering and to include a customer hierarchy facility for carriers serving the high-end business sector. The Amdocs platform supports convergent customer-care and billing activities in multiservice …

NEW YORK-Look no further than North American borders for the biggest near-term opportunities to provide billing and customer care systems. In recent years, the focus of procurement contract competition has been on supplying operations support systems, which include billing and …