First Full-MVNO in Latin America chooses JSC Ingenium to provide its core network

Madrid, Costa Rica Monday February 7th 2011 – JSC Ingenium announces that it has been selected to deploy its core network for Costa Rica and the region’s first Full MVNO.

Sergio Cano, CEO of Grupo Ingenium, stated that “We are proud to have been chosen by Virtualis to deploy the first full MVNO solution in Latin America. Their decision to choose our ‘CORE R3’ platform materializes the investment that we have made in our business development activities in the emerging MVNO markets of Latin America and South East Asia.”

Virtualis, a start-up company based in Costa Rica has entered into an agreement with JSC and GrupoICE to provide mobile services using the ICE Network.

Under the terms of the agreement JSC Ingenium will be responsible for the core network deployment, utilizing the Ingenium CORE R3 platform, integration with the ICE network as well as the implementation of the business support system (BSS) which will be used to manage customer service activities.

Costa Rica’s telecoms regulator recently decided to issue two new of Mobile Network Operator licenses to increase competition. With a mobile phone penetration under 65%,Costa Rica provides significant growth potential and we wanted to be first to market.

Ingenium CORE R3, is built based on the Ingenium Application Server. It offers a complete suite of software to handle voice, SMS and data services over a mobile network including Home Location Register (HLR), Intelligent Network (IN), SMSC, STP, USSD Gateway, SMS Router, Voice Mail, GMSC, SDP, Application server, Billing & rating management, Convergent Billing and value added services such as call back, voicemail to MMS and other services.

JSC Ingenium deploys a CAMEL-SIP interconnection gateway for fonYou.

fonYou Telecom operates in Spain as Full Mobile Virtual Network Operator (Full MVNO) and, furthermore, is the Mobile Online Telephony creator, an innovative solution of Mobile Telephony over SIP technology, through which the users can enjoy and customize a set of new mobile services through a web page.

JSC Ingenium has collaborated with fonYou with the deployment of its signaling gateway, which allows the integration of these services in Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) as well as MVNOs. This is Cell C case, the third Mobile Network Operator in South Africa.

The solution deployed by JSC translates call & message signaling from SS7 protocols to SIP, between the Operator network and fonYou service platform, allowing the Operator to offer innovative services, with minimum cost, using the conventional Network. It is a completely original solution and opens the possibility of seamless interworking between conventional SS7 world and SIP based applications. Particularly, the following features are deployed:

- Call and routing control via SIP over traditional network
- Number translation via SIP over traditional network
- Real time traffic information for the subscriber (via web page)
- Customized call forwarding
- Customized SMS forwarding

In addition, its simple nonintrusive integration is outstading as a major benefit for the Operator, and the use of CAMEL, for interworking makes deployment easier.

About FonYou
fonYou, a global technology company based in Barcelona, provides carrier-grade Cloud Telephony Services for mobile operators. fonYou has developed a proprietary technology platform, the OMT-9000, which is connected to the mobile operators’ existing core networks and enables them to offer Cloud Telephony Services to their end customers. These services put the end customers in total control of their mobile phone service as they allow them to configure advanced control settings for blocking, filtering or redirecting traffic; set up different voicemail greetings per contact or contact group; and access a complete history of their call records, SMS and voicemails from anywhere and in real-time.

More information: http://www.fonyou.com
http://www.cellc.co.za/mytools

The Romanian Operator RCS & RDS chooses JSC Ingenium USSD Gateway

RCS & RDS, Romanian quadruple-play services Operator, orders to JSC Ingenium an alternative solution to the SMS short messages expediting, thus reducing the price of the communication with the mobile telephony users in the countries where it operates nowadays.

JSC Ingenium successfully deploys the USSD Gateway, a Network Node acting as an Interface between the Romanian Operator mobile network and the external applications: credit searching, e-vouchers and credit transference to other subscribers, change of rate plans, etc.

It processes the USSD instead of the Operator HLR. This is translated to an important cost saving for the Operator, and then for the final customer, as well as a significant reduction in Time to market and a high saving of the HLR capacity. However, the two main characteristics from the JSC Ingenium solution deployed are: it can run both SS7 and SIGTRAN standards and a very high level flexibility to create new functionalities and interfaces with external nodes that have useful information for clients.



RCS & RDS S.A. (Romania Cable Systems & Romania Data Systems)
Broadband cable operator, founded in 2005 in Bucharest (Rumania), operates in the Telecommunication Market in East Europe. Digital and cable television, Internet, fixed and mobile telephony services (prepaid and postpaid models) are offered to Rumania, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic.

More information: www.rcs-rds.ro

New regional office in Malaysia.

Continuing with the company’s expansion plan for this year 2010, JSC Ingenium opens a local office in Malaysia, which will meet the emerging demand of the new markets in the Southeast Asia region.

Because of the mobile telephony market maturity and the MVNO market development, Malaysia is one of the countries with the greatest growth potential in the MVNO sector.

Its mentality, European affinity, the professional use of the English language and its geographic situation make Malaysia a strategic area to approach new markets such as Indonesia and Thailand.

With presence in Europe and America – Mexico-, the opening to the Asian market means an important step in global expansion and reinforces its position as “core network” supplier in the international Telco market.

JSC INGENIUM MALAYSIA
71, Jalan SS 22/19
Damansara Jaya
47400 Petaling Jaya (Malaysia)
T. +603 7728 8711

LleidaNet entrust to JSC Ingenium with the implementation of a SS7 interconnection infrastructure.

LleidaNet ordered to JSC Ingenium the implementation of a SMS Gateway to allow the sending of short messages towards other Operators through SS7 protocols.
The SS7 interconnection infrastructure, completely developed by JSC, is characterized by easier translation of the internal protocols - SMPP- to the interconnection type used by the Mobile Networks Operators. It allows obtaining more competitive conditions from the Network Operators when making SMS massive sending and, on the other hand, directly consulting the Operators’ HLR, in order to optimize the messages sending policies: where a certain subscriber is, if the mobile phone is in use or not, and when it becomes connected. In addition, it allows knowing if the subscriber has cancelled the subscription so unnecessary sending can be avoid with the consequent costs saving.
The service is going to be rendered by IOS (Ingenium Outsourcing Services), the Grupo Ingenium Tecnología outsourcing company to which JSC Ingenium belongs.

LleidaNet
Lleida.net is the first Short and Multimedia messaging operator in Spain. Its SMSC is interconnected with all national and international operators both MVNO’s and MNO’s covering more than 200 countries all around the world. They are specialized in value added services on SMS such as the certified SMS or SMS deal.

MVNO Networking Congress 2010

JSC Ingenium will attend as an exhibitor to the MVNO Networking Congress in Barcelona the next 24 and 25th of November to present its supply of Telecommunication solutions for Mobile Virtual Network Operators in all the modalities: MVNA, MVNE and MVNOs.

The MVNO Networking Congress gathers to Virtual and Network Operators, investors, brands, and technological and business suppliers to review the new business plan, segmentation and partnership strategies, as well as the new enabler/agregator strategies that are being implanted in new markets as the Middle East or Latin America.

In words of Sergio Cano, JSC Ingenium CEO: “We think that it is a can’t-miss event that will allow us to share experiences in emergent markets with the main market players, as well as to position us as a recognized international supplier in Core Network for MVNO/E/As”.

More information: http://www.iir-telecoms.com/event/mvno

JSC Ingenium will participate in the MVNO Industry Summmit 2010 exhibition in Barcelona

JSC Ingenium will participate as a sponsor and speaker in one of the more distinguished events than are organized in Europe in the MVNO market, which will take place in the city of Barcelona (Spain) the 11 th and 12th of May.

According to their organizers, the MVNO Industry Summit expects to become the event of reference in the Mobile Telephony sector where the main international actors of the sector will meet, show their news and trends, and will analyze the main success cases, with their peculiarities, in their respective countries.

Julio Castro, director international business development within JSC Ingenium, will be presenting “Why a full-MVNO model can make your business case”, sharing a particular and analytical view of the financial and differentiating realities for MVNOs that follow the “full” MVNO business model.

More information: www.mvnoindustrysummit.com

JSC Ingenium Mexico will attend the Expo Convention Canitec 2010

Antonio Mendoza, the JSC Ingenium México Country Manager, will give a workshop about MVNOs in the next Expo Convention Canitec 2010 directed to Cable Operators, that will be carried out in the city of Monterrey NL on 28th, 29th and 30th April at the International Business Center facilities(Cintermex).

The workshop is specially designed to approach, in a customized and practical way, the business opportunities and the benefits involved for the Cable Operators becoming Virtual Mobile Operator, regarding loyalty and holding its current customer base.

More information: www.canitec.org/expo/2010

JSC Ingenium moves its offices to the Ingenium Technology Group head offices

JSC has moved to the Ingenium Technology Group head offices in Condesa de Venadito street, located in Madrid in the center of Arturo Soria business area.

The change of office is due to its growth forecast and the new incorporations for the end of 2010, so it expects to duplicate the staff group it had at the beginning of the year, just as to the Group strategy of optimization of the central services to all its companies in a same location.

Taking advantage of the change, JSC released its new website in order to reinforce his positioning in the Mobile Telephony sector as a reference Core Network supplier at international level for MVNO/A/E, which include, among others, the development of Services and Network Elements such as HLR, IN, STP, Voice Mail, Prepay, SMSC, USSD Gateway, Top-up server.

New offices:
JSC Ingenium
Condesa de Venadito 1
28027 Madrid
Tel.: 902 095 045 | +34 91 703 0454
Fax: 902 095 046 | +34 91 703 0453

JSC Ingenium signs an agreement with Fonyou for the deployment of a Core Network as full MVNO in Europe

JSC will be responsible for the deployment of FonYou Telecom Core Network as a full MVNO and integrating all their existing developments of Intelligent Network in a native IMS core.

Furthermore, JSC will be charge of the Network consultancy for the optimization of the systems, interconnections and routing, contributing with all its Core Network knowledge and expertise.

FonYou, the Mobile Telephony Online Creator, operates as MVNO in Spain since 2008 offering a totally innovative and revolutionary conccept that allows the users to control and configure their mobile telephony services from the web.

More information: www.fonyou.com