INCOMPAS 2016 News: TimelyBill, Somos, Inteliquent, FTS

By Bruce Christian

New product offers abounded at the INCOMPAS competitive telecom event this week.

TimelyBill OSS Offers All-Inclusive Pricing

TimelyBill offers all-inclusive pricing for award-winning billing-as-a-service platform.

The TimelyBill complete back-office solution specifically is developed for communication service providers. With more than 50 tightly integrated components, it supports the full customer lifecycle.

The single monthly fee includes everything.  Implementation costs are flat-rate with no hidden charges.  Other benefits include:

  • Real-time quoting
  • Trouble management
  • Built-in provisioning
  • Tax engine integration
  • Turnkey customer/agent portals.
  • Free lifetime upgrades, technical support and user training.

TimelyBill understands that no two organizations are alike. So its OSS/BSS was created to provide the maximum in flexibility and reliability. And TimelyBill is designed to put users in control of the system. They can add/modify fields, labels, validation rules, permissions, create custom fields, store customer data in multiple languages, and more.

The ability to customize TimelyBill, along with its open APIs, provides customers with a billing system that fits seamlessly into their environment. It also lowers or removes the costly modifications often required with other billing systems.

Bill Perfect Inc. develops, markets and integrates the award-winning TimelyBill OSS. TimelyBill is a hosted billing and operations support system for communications service providers. Whether they  are looking at VoIP, triple play or quad play, TimelyBill’s single-stack solution was built to meet all of back office needs.

For information or a demonstration, visit TimelyBill.com or call Patrick at 954.889.6699 x9131.

Somos Launches Resource to Support Toll-Free Text Market

Somos, a provider of trusted, neutral toll-free registry and numbering administration services for the telecommunications industry for more than 20 years, announced it has unveiled a new resource on its website to educate toll-free service providers (RespOrgs), messaging providers, messaging aggregators and other companies on text enabling toll-free numbers and the role they play in this growing market.

More than 40 million toll-free numbers are in use throughout North America, roughly half of which are expected to become text-enabled in the next few years. Somos operates the Texting and Smart Services (TSS) Registry, an authoritative, centralized provisioning and routing database for all multimedia services associated with toll-free numbers.

The TSS Registry is the only formal industrywide system that follows CTIA – the Wireless Association – guidelines for validating the text enablement of toll-free numbers, providing complete transparency into all communications services associated with that number.

The successful adoption of texting to toll-free numbers hinges on the role of toll-free service providers that reserve, assign and manage toll-free numbers.

Somos has launched an educational resource on its website at www.somos.com that provides companies interested in text enabling toll-free numbers for themselves or their customers with all the information needed to help enhance value and build stronger connections.

This online resource details the value of text enabling toll-free numbers, as well as an overview of the messaging ecosystem and how it functions to protect the integrity of toll-free numbers.

Here you will find instructions on how to connect with or become a service registrar. In addition, toll-free service providers can get information on the process of receiving notification and validation requests.

This resource is the latest initiative from Somos in its role upholding fairness and full transparency for the use of toll-free numbers.

Formerly known as SMS/800 Inc., Somos provides trusted, neutral numbering and registry administration services for the telecommunications industry. Somos operates the SMS/800 toll-free voice registry for administration and routing data for all toll-free numbers in the North American Numbering Plan, as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission.

Somos also operates the Texting and Smart Services Registry, the centralized registry for administration and routing data for toll-free messaging and multimedia services.

For more information, go to www.somos.com.

Inteliquent Unveils Omni Offering for Next-Gen Providers

Inteliquent Inc., a national voice, text and messaging network for communications service providers, announced today, the launch of Omni, a comprehensive voice and messaging solution for the over-the-top (OTT) and direct inward dialing (DID) market.

For the first time, Omni will enable communication providers to easily and efficiently power their solutions using Inteliquent services.

“The world of telecommunications can be complex, so we developed Omni, a one-stop-shop, to make integrating voice and messaging functionality into any solution easy and accessible,” said Brett Scorza, Inteliquent’s CIO and executive vice president of product development. “Omni allows our customers to focus time and resources on growing their businesses and creating the best solutions for their customers.”

Omni equips service providers, whether they are more traditional telecommunications or next generation communications service providers, with all inbound and outbound voice call flows, message-enabled DIDs, inbound and outbound SMS and MMS messaging, and the market’s most user-friendly Web portal and APIs for seamless integration and automation.

“As a wholesale solutions provider focused on delivering quality service, we needed to infuse our inbound DID service as cost effectively as possible,” said Neil Rosenblit, CEO, Blitz Telecom. “We chose Omni because we wanted our communications routed through the most reliable network and because it provided us complete control over our communications functionality, while enabling us to easily automate and scale. The portal is also very intuitive, shortening our learning curve to help us save costs and expedite our solution’s time to market.”

Omni is delivered through Inteliquent’s high quality network, which is used by many of the top telecommunication companies in the United States. The network connects millions of voice calls every day.

The new platform expands the company’s offering to providers in the next generation market, a key component of Inteliquent’s Growth Forward business strategy.

“Demand for communications that enables two-way connections is increasing rapidly. This is the new paradigm for communications and, through Omni, we’ve created the infrastructure to power it,” said Alissa Clousing, Inteliquent’s vice president of product. “Inteliquent is constantly innovating and moving beyond voice to better serve our customers and reach new entrants in the communications world to diversify our revenue stream, one of our primary focus areas of our Growth Forward plan. This truly signifies our evolution from a traditional voice-only telecommunications provider to the premier interconnection partner for communication providers of all types.”

Inteliquent is a premiere interconnection partner for communication service providers of all types, including voice, text and messaging. Inteliquent is used by regional wireless carriers, cable companies and CLECs in the markets it serves, and its network carries approximately 17 billion minutes of traffic per month.

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FTS Fiber, Think Big Networks Bring Fiber, Broadband to Kent County

In January, Kent County, Md., issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the design and construction of a Fiber Optic Broadband Network. The mission sought to create a fiber infrastructure to improve connectivity to essential anchor institutions, priority funding areas, industrial parks and communities around the county.

Bidders were encouraged to propose creative design recommendations for the network, particularly to connect all possible 54 sites and areas that Kent County specified in the RFP. Any additional features, services and forward-thinking design elements would also be considered.

A project timeline was set for up to four years with preference for an accelerated project timeline that broke the construction into phases.

In response to the RFP, FTS Fiber presented a proposal with a unique funding approach and faster timeline that exceeded Kent County’s goal of providing high-speed internet connectivity to its residents.

FTS Fiber, along with other Maryland based partners, specifically Think Big Networks, proposed a solution to replace the costly, limited and unreliable services available with the existing backbone of incumbent ISPs in Kent County.

The FTS Fiber platform offered a modernized fiber optic solution with up to 40 times more throughput than the incumbent solution that would also deliver one gigabit of Internet access to every home.

Most importantly, in supporting Kent County’s objectives of maintaining a strong fiscal position and investing in technology infrastructure, FTS Fiber’s network is able to drive economic growth, create jobs and improve quality of life for residents and local businesses.

The company has targeted a rollout in three phases over the course of two years.

Kent County’s dark fiber backbone will be an integral part of a long haul communications network between Ashburn, Va., and Virginia Beach. This network, requested by major content providers, is part of several international cables that will be installed from Europe and South America to Virginia Beach in 2017 and 2018.

Kent County and the surrounding counties on the Delmarva Peninsula will serve as a gateway and international point of presence in optical transport.

Think Big Networks is ISP based and uses cutting edge technologies for large bandwidth. It leverages the speed and reliability of a fiber based network to provide a bandwidth experience unavailable on legacy mediums.  The Think Big Networks staff has the engineering, deployment, operational and management experience to keep networks running fast and smooth for the best end user experience.

FTS Fiber is a dark fiber supplier providing carrier-class network infrastructure in rural areas and major markets of the United States. It produces reliable and secure, neutral fiber paths for various network operators and business sectors, including content and internet providers, healthcare, education, government and real estate developers.

For more information visit www.FTSFiber.com.