Stockholm, Sweden. March 21, 2012 — DigitalRoute’s MediationZone product has been deployed by Canadian telecommunications provider TELUS, it is announced today. TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) set out to replace its existing mediation platforms in order to reduce costs for processing usage data across the company’s multiple business support systems (BSS).
DigitalRoute, a provider of mediation solutions for the communications industry, was selected after an evaluation of the available mediation technologies on the market.
TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with CAN$10.4 billion of annual revenue and 12.7 million customer connections, including 7.3 million wireless subscribers, 3.6 million wireline network access lines, and 1.3 million internet subscribers and more than 500,000 TELUS TV customers.
MediationZone is now in live operation at TELUS, providing an integration layer between the mobile core network and the BSS. The deployment is one of the first steps in a comprehensive replacement programme as TELUS is now looking to further enhance its cost performance by expanding the use of MediationZone over time to replace its other mediation systems.
“MediationZone has reduced our total cost of ownership for mediation, and it also provides the ability to reduce the overall load on our business support systems,” said James Ritchie, vice president of consumer development and support at TELUS. “With its implementation, we are able to efficiently meet our expanding mediation needs, the result of continuous growth in mobile data.”
“We are extremely pleased to work with TELUS and look forward to supporting the next steps in the mediation replacement programme,” said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute. “DigitalRoute is established in the market for providing the most sophisticated and cost-efficient mediation technology. Our pure focus on mediation and our commitment to our customers has earned us the trust of the world’s leading service providers.”
DigitalRoute® is an independent software vendor delivering mediation and integration solutions to the global telecommunications and data communications industry. The company simplifies service providers’ data infrastructure, centralising integration of IT and communication networks. DigitalRoute technology for mediation, data integration and policy control is deployed for 240 customers worldwide.
TELUS has been led since 2000 by president and CEO Darren Entwistle, and it provides a wide range of communications products and services including wireless, data, internet protocol (IP), voice, TV, entertainment and video.
