Every investor always has a dream of making some profits and seeing his or her venture grow in leaps and bounds to surpass the achievements of his competitors in the market. With technology on the rampage and shaping the trends of business in almost every imaginable sector, the communications sector has grown in leaps and as such attracted all sorts of fraudulent activities as well. It is for this reason that the telecom fraud prevention solutions have also become inevitable if you need to succeed in telecommunications as a business.
With so many people realizing that there is some money to be made in the telecommunications sector. The unscrupulous characters with some technological knowledge in them have decided to pay close attention to the businesses in this line and have occasioned big loses to operators who did not have any mechanisms in place to safeguard or give them any revenue assurance against such incidents.
Yaro Donchenko being a leading investor in this business among many others was inspired by the need to find a solution to the many problems affecting the telecommunications operators in the line of their business. As a result, he was able to congregate a team of expert engineers with extensive knowledge in crime detection to design solutions that can help in telecom fraud prevention.
Unknown to many operators, most of the losses that run into millions are often incurred from the little loop holes that one would easily ignore as inconsequential to the business. However, it is such loop holes that often pile up to chock your profits and before you can do anything about it, you are heavily in debt.
In order to ensure you have everything in check as a telecommunications investor, it is important to make sure that you have an automated system that will be able to monitor all your subscribers and their activities on your system to the best of your ability.
Proper classification of the same clients is equally important according to their magnitude and their ability. With the help of a number of full proof solutions that have been formulated by companies who understand the weaknesses of the systems and the target points of fraud in telecommunication, you can be able to trace all transactions and even point out the exact points when discrepancies took place in the system.
It is also significant to note that these telecom crime prevention solutions are not like any other management solutions that many people use in administration at the work place. Instead, they have been formulated in a different manner to work like some security systems; that is crime and fraud detection.
Of course every thing has an implication in finances. The telecom fraud prevention solutions will always come at some extra cost but it is also important to note that the cost of the having the solution in place and its impact on your telecommunications business will not match in any way. The gains will certainly outweigh the amount of money that you will spend in getting the systems in place.
Monday, October 31, 2011
FCO has concerns about Liberty’s Kabel BW deal
Germany’s antitrust body the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has published its preliminary assessment of Liberty Global’s proposed acquisition of German cableco Kabel BW, stating it is concerned that the potential deal would have a negative impact on competition in the market. US cable company Liberty Global already owns Germany’s second largest cableco by subscribers Unitymedia. The FCO said the takeover would affect the supply of TV services to properties with a number of residential units, particularly housing associations
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Copaco to launch IPTV on 15 December
According to La Nacion, Paraguayan state-owned operator Copaco will launch its long-planned IPTV service on 15 December. The service will be available as part of a triple-play product suite, also including fixed telephony and broadband internet access
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New products boost BTC sales
State-owned telecoms company Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) has posted revenue of BWP1.07 billion (USD147 million) for its fiscal year ended 31 March 2011, compared to BWP958.4 million in the year-ago period, local newspaper Mmegi Online reports, citing a company statement. BTC said new product lines drove an increase in sales, which helped to boost net profit by 25% over the twelve-month period to BWP227.4 million
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China Telecom reports third-quarter results
China Telecom Corp has posted revenue of CNY62.2 billion (USD9.8 billion) for the third quarter of 2011, up 12% year-on-year in part due to the net addition of nine million wireless subscribers, of which almost seven million were 3G subscribers. Net income for the period rose 9.7% to CNY4.2 billion, although this was lower than analyst expectations. Despite the growth in 3G subscribers, the company revealed that monthly wireless ARPU over the first nine months of 2011 recorded a ‘moderate decline’
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Moroccan regulator reports 18% mobile growth in a year
According to Morocco’s telecoms regulator, the ANRT, mobile subscribers in the country reached a total of 36.15 million at the end of September 2011, up by 3.4% quarter-on-quarter and 18.5% in twelve months. In terms of market share, at that date the watchdog reported that Maroc Telecom accounted for 46.9% of subscribers, Meditel 32.8% and Wana nearly 20.3%
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Croatia ditches special mobile tax
Croatia’s parliament has voted to abolish a 6% ‘special tax’ on mobile network service revenues, effective from 1 January 2012. The tax was introduced in August 2009 as a measure to help plug the public deficit, and was applicable to voice, SMS and MMS services.
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Qtel profits down 13%, 18% in Q3, 9M periods
Qatar Telecommunications (Qtel) has reported 13% and 18% year-on-year drops in its third-quarter and nine-month consolidated net profits to QAR567 million (USD156 million) and QAR2.0 billion respectively, attributing the fall to price promotions introduced to fight tough competition alongside foreign exchange losses. The drop in profitability came despite group-wide revenues increasing year-on-year by 16.6% to QAR8.13 billion in July-September 2011 and by 16.8% to QAR23.6 billion in the first nine months of the year
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OVETEL Qtel profits down 13%, 18% in Q3, 9M periods
T-HT’s 9M revenues slide 3.6%; broadband and IPTV growth continues
Croatia’s former monopoly telco T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) has reported a 3.6% year-on-year decline in consolidated fixed line, mobile, internet and pay-TV revenues to HRK6.09 billion (USD1.15 billion) for the first nine months of 2011, while its EBITDA fell 2.1% over the same period to HRK2.80 billion. The operator, a subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, increased the size of its residential fixed broadband customer base by 8.3% year-on-year to 538,000 at 30 September 2011, and its number of IPTV subscribers grew by 21.7% y-o-y to 318,000 at the same date.
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Clear Mobitel sets its sights on NZ LTE concession
Clear Mobitel NZ, the New Zealand arm of the UK-based company of the same name, has confirmed plans to put itself forward for a mobile concession when Long Term Evolution (LTE)-suitable spectrum in the 700MHz band is auctioned off by the government in 2012. Harpal Mann, the founder and CEO of the UK-based parent, told CommsDay: 'We have, over the past three years, tried to acquire the 2500MHz spectrum that was auctioned off by the Labour Government, and were unsuccessful due to spectrum hoarding by entities which had no intention to build an LTE network'
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Digicel linked with possible Eircom bid, paper says
The Irish Independent newspaper is reporting that Jamaica-based regional mobile operator Digicel Group may have expressed an interest in acquiring the Republic’s debt-laden former monopoly operator Eircom. Although Denis O'Brien's Caribbean operation is remaining tight-lipped over the rumour, the paper claims that Eircom, which is embroiled in efforts to address its massive EUR3.7 billion (USD5.2 billion) debt pile, has received an approach from an as yet unnamed third party. For its part, Eircom has also declined to comment on the speculation
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BT aims to complete FTTC rollout a year ahead of schedule
British fixed line incumbent BT has revealed that it now expects to complete the rollout of its fibre-optic broadband infrastructure to around two-thirds of the UK’s premises by the end of 2014, a year earlier than as per its original schedule. According to the Wall Street Journal, the telco has said that it will bring forward around GBP300 million (USD483 million) of the GBP2.5 billion total investment set aside for the project, part of which will be put towards the recruitment of some 520 engineers to help out with the project
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OVETEL BT aims to complete FTTC rollout a year ahead of schedule
Une-EPM signs LTE deployment contracts
Une-EPM has inked deals with Huawei and Ericsson for the deployment of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Huawei will be responsible for phase one of the 4G rollout, while Ericsson will take charge of phase two
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Customer growth returns for Virgin Media in 3Q11
British cableco Virgin Media saw customer growth return in the three months ende ... http://bit.ly/rATIsC
Costa Rica delays MNP
Costa Rica’s telecoms regulator, Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel ... http://bit.ly/v3vB87
3G growth offsets costs for China Unicom
China’s second largest cellco by subscribers, China Unicom, has reported that ... http://bit.ly/sTRLDS
EC tells Greece to comply with rules easing infrastructure deployment
The European Commission (EC) has requested Greece adopt legislation to make it e ... http://bit.ly/sSHeXj
Rogers’ customers get LTE handsets
Canada’s Rogers Communications has activated the first Long Term Evolution (LT ... http://bit.ly/vZ0FyW
MTN Group subscriber total reaches 158.6m in Q3
South Africa-based MTN Group has reported that its consolidated subscriber base ... http://bit.ly/rNYWD9
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