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Africa: Intec Expands Into Africa With Interconnect Deal in Ivory Coast
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This Day (Lagos)
21 May 2008
Posted to the web 22 May 2008
Lagos
Intec, , a global provider of business and operations systems, announced Monday that it's signed a major deal with Moov Côte d'Ivoire, a subsidiary of Atlantique Telecom, a global systems management operator in west and central Africa.
As part of the contract, Intec has supplied and successfully installed its market-leading Intec Interconnect billing solution at Moov with a network of more than 1 million subscribers.
The project was completed ahead of schedule by Intec's competence center in West Africa. Extensive training and skills transfer was also conducted to enable Moov to leverage the skills of its own technical and business team, according to the company.
"With almost 30 operators using Intec Interconnect in Africa today, Intec is regarded as the market leader in wholesale business management solutions for the continent," said Aboubacar Coulibaly, Atlantique Telecom's group IT director.
Atlantique Telecom is a major GSM operator in West and Central Africa, according to the company. Moov is the mobile brand name of Atlantique Telecom, a telecommunications holding company, with Banque Atlantique as minority shareholder and Etisalat as majority shareholder.
Etisalat is of the biggest telecommunications services providers in the world with presence in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Afganistan, Egypt, Sudan and Nigeria. Etisalat has been the telecommunications services provider in the UAE since 1976.
"Another advantage Intec has over other billing suppliers is its existing presence in the network of other Ivorian GSM operators. Many of Moov's competitors are already users of Intec Interconnect and have experienced first hand the financial benefits of installing such a powerful and reliable billing system. We want to achieve the same results for our business," said Francois Kouassi, Moov's business manager.
Atlantique Telecom, by going in for Intec Interconnect platform, aims to reduce the wholesale costs for national and international interconnect traffic, according to the company.
At present this is one of Moov's largest single business expenditures and therefore a critical challenge to overcome as the company expands its operations.
Moov to reduce these costs by using Intec Interconnect's billing capabilities to accurately and automatically control what is paid out and what is invoiced to its partners.
"This project is strategic for Intec as it is aligned with our goal to sign group deals with the largest telecommunications providers in the region," explains Gary Burch, VP EMEA.
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"We already have group agreements with Orange and Orascom Telecom . Holding to name just a couple of major players, and Moov being part of a big operator such as Etisalat reinforces our status as the preferred OSS vendor of choice to some of the biggest and most highly regarded communications companies in the region."
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