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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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