Comptel Corporation
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki: CTL1V) |
| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
| Key people | Juhani Hintikka(President and CEO), Mikko Hytönen (CFO), Antti Koskela (Senior Vice President, Products and Solutions) |
| Sectors | Fixed, mobile, cable, broadband operators and virtual operators (VNO and MVNO) |
| Products | Order Fulfilment -- Comptel Fulfillment -- Comptel Order Management -- Comptel Provisioning and Activation -- Comptel Dynamic SIM Mangement Information Management -- Comptel Catalog Policy Control and Charging -- Comptel Control and Charge -- Comptel Policy Control -- Comptel Charging -- Comptel Convergent Mediation -- Comptel Interconnect Billing |
| Services | Professional Services -- Consultation -- Delivery Services -- Support -- Training |
| Revenue | EUR 77.9 million (2010) |
| Net income | EUR 8.9 million (2010) |
| Employees | around 600 (2010) |
| Website | Homepage www.comptel.com Social Media Twitter, Facebook, Blog |
| Contacts | Sales General enquiries Media March Communications or Olivier Suard, Marketing Director, Comptel Corporation Analysts March Communications or Olivier Suard, Marketing Director, Comptel Corporation Investors Samppa Seppälä |
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About
Comptel Corporation (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki: CTL1V) is a leading provider of OSS (Operations Support Systems) software to the telecoms market. Since 1986, Comptel has delivered solutions to 280 customers in 85 countries serving in turn over 800 million subscribers. Comptel customers include leading operators, such as América Móvil, Bharti, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, O2, SWIFT, Telefónica and Vodafone.
Comptel's uses its proven realtime capabilities to provide a Comptel Dynamic OSS™ suite of products, focusing on order fulfillment, catalog, mediation, charging and policy control.
In 2010, it has been actively involved in pioneering understanding of the role of the Cloud in the OSS, as well as the practical aspects of supporting Cloud services.
Products
Overview
Comptel's product portfolio is known as Comptel Dynamic OSS. The suite is includes products that are closedly integrated, but can be deployed independently, covering order fulfilment, charging and policy control. All solutions are fully convergent - proven in fixed, mobile and broadband environments.
Order Fulfilment
- Comptel Fulfillment is a leading order fulfillment platform which combines service design and build funtionality with automated delivery capability across multiple networks and service platforms.
- Comptel Order Management provides end-to-end control of the customer order, from capture to fully enabled service, through a common processing platform for voice, data, mobile, fixed and multiple technology service orders.
- Comptel Provisioning and Activation enables operators to fully automate the process of handling subscriber orders to activate services in the network all the way up to the start of billing.
- Comptel Service and Resource Inventory offers a consolidated inventory of mobile, broadband and next generation networks, maintaining a view of the physical, logical and service inventory required to deliver customer services.
- Comptel Dynamic SIM Management addresses two main areas: the just-in-time allocation of numbers and services; and the full lifecycle management of SIM cards – from order to deactivation.
Infomation Management
- Comptel Catalog enables rapid product creation and delivery for the new generation Communications Service Provider, providing functionality for both a federated Enterprise Service Catalog and a product management and delivery platform. The Catalog provides a crucial link between the fulfilment and the policy control and charging parts of the Comptel product portfolio.
- Comptel Subscriber Profile Repository provides a live and accurate view of subscriber business data, including service configurations and allocated price plans. It allows the CSP to monitor business-critical customer status and activity information across multiple networks, and provides a single point of reference to all interested business functions.
Policy Control and Charging
- Comptel Control and Charge is an integrated, modular solution that brings together Comptel’s existing, proven solutions for policy control (including bandwidth management and roaming cost control functionalities), charging and mediation on a single platform.
- Comptel Policy Control provides 3GPP-compliant policy control rules functions (PCRF), which can also be used in non-standard or proprietary network environments. Comptel Policy Control is typically combined with with Comptel Charging and Comptel Mediation (Comptel Control and Charge - see above) for optimum personalization of service and price-plan offerings.
- Comptel Charging is a modular charging solution that allows communications service providers (CSPs) to create advanced and flexible charging models for postpaid and prepaid customers. Combined with with Comptel Policy Control and Comptel Mediation (Comptel Control and Charge - see above), Comptel Charging provides the 3GPP Online Charging System (OCS) functionality needed for optimum personalization of service and price-plan offerings.
- Comptel Convergent Mediation is the scalable platform for managing the online and offline collection and transformation of network transactions from various network types to billable records.
- Comptel Interconnect Billing manages the financial settlement in near real time between communication service providers and other parties using each other's networks and services.
Awards
Comptel has won many awards for its software solutions, including:
2011
- "Telecom Service Management Vendor of the Year" in the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards for Comptel's exemplary growth and performance in the region's OSS market in 2010
2010
- "Best New Telecommunications Product or Service of the Year" at International Business Awards - for Comptel Control and Charge
- "Best Support System" at the World Vendor Awards - for Comptel Dynamic OSS portfolio
2009
- "2009 Superstar Mobile Star Award™" from MobileVillage® in the "Customer or Device Management" category - for Comptel Policy Control
- "2009 World BSS Award" in the category of “Innovation in BSS" - for Comptel Bandwidth management (an applictaion of Comptel Control and Charge)
- "Best Service Fulfillment Solution" award in the Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Awards - for Comptel Fufillment
2008
- "OSS Vendor of the Year" award in the Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards
- 2008 Silver Star Mobile Star Award™ from MobileVillage® in the operator software category for customer or device management - for Comptel Dynamic OSS
2007
- "2007 Stratecast Global Billing Mediation Responsive To Customer Needs Award", awarded by leading industry analyst Stratecast (a division of Frost & Sullivan) - for Comptel Mediation
Services
Comptel works closely with partners or directly with communication service providers to deliver Comptel Dynamic solutions. Comptel's professional services provides Consultation Services, Delivery Services and Support Services as well as Training Services.
In addition, the Comptel User Group provides an active contact forum for Comptel's customers and partners.
Customers and Vertical Markets
Overview
Comptel has delivered solutions to 280 customers in 85 countries. Comptel customers include fixed, mobile, cable, broadband, and VNOs/MVNOs in North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Major Telecom Groups
Comptel counts some of the major international telecom groups as customers including Telefonica O2, América Móvil, Vodafone, Orascom, Cosmote, Telenor, Teliasonera, T-Mobile and Qtel.
Operators
As well as subsidiaries of major groups, Comptel counts many large and small operators, as customers, inclding Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, AIS, FarEasTone, Belgacom, KPN Mobile, Swisscom AG, U.T.A Telecom, CellC, Telecom Namibia.
History
Comptel was founded in Finland in 1986, originally as a spin-off of Elisa, one of the Finnish mobile operators. Comptel originally concentrated on mediation for mobile, but over the years expanded both its market (to include fixed, cable and broadband service providers) and its product portfolio (organically and through acquisitions). Comptel is anow a global company with presence in North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Comptel was listed on the Helsinki stock exchange in 1999.
Growth and Acquisitions
Incatel
2005: Comptel acquires network inventory specialist Incatel [1]
Axiom Systems
2008: Comptel acquired IP fulfilment specialist Axiom Systems [2]
Financials
Comptel is a publicly quoted company on the Helsinki stock market (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki: CTL1V). The latest financial information is available on the Investor section of the Comptel website.
2010 Results:
- Net sales EUR 77.9 million
- Operating profit EUR 8.9 million
Regions of Activity
Comptel has a global reach through its partners and its own local and regional presence. Comptel offices and representation across the world include:
- Americas - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, USA
- APAC - Australia, China, India, Malaysia
- Europe - Bulgaria, Italy, Finland (HQ), Norway, Russia, UK
- Middle-East and Africa - Egypt, U.A.E., South Africa
News and Opinion
Greg Scullard talked to Teresa Cottam on "The Cloud, managed services and outsourcing" during Telesperience 15
Blog: "The Dynamics of OSS"
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