Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, the leading fixed and mobile operator in Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully deployed Oracle® Communications Unified Inventory Management as part of its transformed, end-to-end business support system and operations support system (BSS/OSS) architecture.

With multiple existing in-house and third-party inventory systems, Telefónica O2 Czech Republic needed to define, manage and unify its customer services and associated logical resources (such as phone numbers and IP addresses) and physical resources (such as switches and routers) to dramatically reduce service introduction times and automate service fulfillment.

Ness Technologies, Oracle’s partner in the Czech Republic, managed the project and, within three months, successfully deployed Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management to provide both a technical customer service catalogue and inventory as part of the end-to-end architecture.

This integration of Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management with the existing BSS/OSS architecture, which includes Oracle’s Siebel CRM integrated more

Rogers debuts another North American wireless network first

First in North America to super-charge its network to maximum speeds of

21 Mbps

TORONTO, July 28 /CNW/ - Rogers Wireless today announced it has begun the Canada-wide deployment of a 21 Megabits per second (Mbps) high-speed HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) wireless network, following the successful expansion and doubling of speed of its high-speed network to 7.2 Mbps last year. Starting in August, Rogers will progressively increase wireless network download speeds up to 21 Mbps in the Greater Toronto Area, and expand quickly over the coming months to other cities across the country. Rogers Wireless customers - who today already experience the fastest wireless data speeds in Canada - will experience peak wireless download speeds that are as fast as any available in the world. Rogers is the first wireless provider in North America and only the more