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Nokia and MIND CTI open IP Telephony for Mainstream Business
September 28, 1999
Nokia and MIND offer comprehensive billing and management solution, enabling the deployment of cutting edge VoIP technology.
Opening IP Telephony to businesses and other organizations around the world, Nokia and MIND CTI today announce the extended integration of the Nokia IP Telephony solution and the award winning MIND-iPhonEXTM customer care and billing solution.
Nokia is committed to developing and maintaining open interfaces to the applications that service providers require to be competitive and responsive to their customers. The integration of MIND's customer care and billing system now provides a direct interface to Nokia's core IP Telephony elements. This direct interface leverages Nokia's advanced call processing, to add consortium settlements and prepaid features through real time billing.
"As an IP Telephony service provider, it is essential to offer flexible ways to manage customer accounts and efficient methods of invoicing them accordingly. Today's customers have very diverse needs and demand a variety of ways to subscribe and pay for their service", said Dan MacDonald, VP of Marketing, Nokia Internet Communications "Nokia and MIND together are offering a comprehensive billing and management solution, enabling the deployment with cutting edge VoIP technology.
Service providers can now create and offer prepaid telephony services and manage consortium-type settlements with ease. It is an off the shelf product that requires minimal post-integration of customer care and billing. Various types of both credit and prepaid accounts can be supported, enabling service providers to reach the broadest range of IP Telephony customers from collective enterprise customers to individuals buying debit cards at a fuel station.
This new functionality, all included in the Nokia IP Telephony 4.0 release, will be commercially available in the 4th quarter of 1999.
About MIND CTI
MIND, the market leader for VoIP billing, supplies solutions for billing, accounting and management for Internet telephony, switches, Internet-based services and data. With over one hundred and twenty customers worldwide, MIND has the largest installed base in IP telephony billing. MIND-iPhonEX deploys a carrier grade billing system, supporting millions of customers, that provides a scalable, highly reliable solution. For information on MIND and its products visit the company web site: www.mindcti.com
Delivering IP Telephony Solutions for IP Networks
The complete suite of Nokia IP Telephony solutions enables Service Providers to quickly and easily provision new services to connect residential and business people the world over. A unique combination of advanced call processing servers, gateways, IP based end-user devices and applications, Nokia IP Telephony delivers intelligent voice and fax services over geographically distributed, large-scale networks.
About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks including related services. It also supplies multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 51 000 people.
Contact information:
Laurie Armstrong, Nokia Internet Communications, Tel. +1 613 271 6756, laurie.armstrong@nokia.com
David Donahue, GCI Group, Tel. +1 415 974 6200, DDonahue@gcigroup.com
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