DigitalRoute has been selected by BTC to support the operator's 4G and NGN projects.
Stockholm, Sweden. December 13, 2011 — DigitalRoute has been selected by BTC, the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, to support the operator's ongoing 4G and NGN projects. BTC, the country’s sole wireless provider is aiming to roll out its 4G network during 2012, enabling 20 to 30 times faster data speeds compared to what is available today.
DigitalRoute® is an independent software vendor delivering mediation and integration solutions to the global telecoms and data communications industries. The company simplifies service providers’ data infrastructure, centralising integration of IT and communication networks. Its mediation, data integration and policy control technology is deployed for 240 customers worldwide.
For the world's leading communication service providers, massive volumes of usage records are processed every day in order run mission critical applications. Mediation reduces the number of point integrations and provides the functions to efficiently manage usage data before it reaches the business support systems (BSS). With the rapid uptake of mobile data services driven by new network technologies, mediation is an essential component in the service providers’ business operations.
BTC is the incumbent mobile operator in The Bahamas, as well as a provider of fixed line and broadband services. The company currently has approximately 123,000 fixed line customers, 388,000 mobile customers and 19,000 broadband customers.
“The planned introduction of 4G, enabling high speed mobile broadband for all our subscriber and visitors makes a flexible and high performance mediation solution such as MediationZone a necessity,” said Marlon Johnson, vice president of Marketing at BTC.
“I think Digital Route is well positioned to meet our mediation needs and our partnership to date has been great. We are very impressed by the rich set of off-the shelf functionality that MediationZone can provide,” added Sheldon Mundle, BTC's chief information officer.
DigitalRoute has enjoyed a strong business momentum in North America during 2010 and 2011, where it has been selected by some of the leading service providers to replace legacy mediation and data integration systems. “We value the opportunity to work with BTC and it fits perfectly with our plans for continued strengthening of our presence in the region”, said Stephen Rickaby (pictured), general manager at DigitalRoute Americas.
