Oct. 5, 2006---Deployment of Lucent’s SurePay solution will
integrate Belize Telecommunications Limited’s (BTL’s) existing GSM,
AMPS and wireline charging/billing systems into one platform.
The agreement is for Lucent to deploy a real-time rating and charging solution for BTL voice and data services.BTL
will soon be launching a range of new and enhanced services to its
prepaid customers by means of Lucent's SurePay real-time rating and
charging engine, which has been commercially deployed in networks
worldwide with a base of more than 135 million subscribers. SurePay is
a scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution designed to
support a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce
services.
Dean Boyce, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of BTL, is highly optimistic: "As we roll-out our
advanced features and service packages to our growing prepaid customer
base, we will leverage Lucent's SurePay platform to support a wide
range of flexible payment plans, service bundles and promotions
targeted to particular customer segments…This will enable BTL to
respond to the needs of the market and deliver enhanced value
proposition, as well as to maximise the return on our investment."
Lucent
is also supplying BTL with a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC)
platform with the Wireless Messaging Gateway (WMG) module that allows
users to send and receive short messages to and from email addresses.
Lucent Worldwide Services is charged with integrating SurePay with the
customer’s current infrastructure and providing complete installation
and integration of the Lucent applications suite.
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Belize Telecommunications Limited is a supplier of telecommunication
solutions encompassing wireline, wireless, high-speed data services
(national and international) GSM mobile cellular, international
cellular roaming, fixed wireless, and high-speed Internet services,
e.g., DSL, wireless, and dedicated circuits. BTL has been serving
residential, business and government customers in Belize since December 31, 1987,
with ongoing expansion and improvements to its infrastructure,
providing telecommunication services to customers in both the rural
districts and surrounding cayes as well as the more populated urban
locations. BTL has some 35,000 wireline customers, 110,000 mobile
customers, and more than 7,000 high-speed Internet customers. A recent
addition to its capabilities includes the purchase of a site now being
used to provide call-centre facilities to international customers.
more info: www.btl.net
