- São Paulo, Brazil office relocated to Avenida Paulista
São Paulo/London – 23 February, 2005 - Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has expanded its office in São Paulo, Brazil to provide new facilities for training and supporting its many customers in the CALA region, as well as anticipating growth in the company following the acquisition of the ‘Singl.eView' customer billing business last year. The new office, located in the Conde Andréa Matarazzo building, sits 17 stories above Avenida Paulista, São Paulo 's equivalent to Wall Street.
The new office, double the size of the previous location, is now equipped with a training centre, enabling Intec to offer training for its entire suite of products to its new and existing customers from within the CALA region. Intec has also increased the size and staffing of its support centre to meet the rising demands of new business. The São Paulo based support centre offers 24x7 support to approximately 40 customers in more than 15 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, including Cable & Wireless, CANTV, Claro, Oi, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, and Vivo.
“Intec's expansion in Brazil demonstrates its continued investment in the business, which has helped make Intec one of the top 5 players in the OSS/BSS market worldwide,” said Per Martell , Intec's CALA Regional Operations Director. “Strong financial performance and a positive outlook for 2005 and beyond have allowed Intec to double its regional staff and workspace to support new business and future growth in CALA.”
The São Paulo office is one of Intec's four Centres of Excellence, and is the regional headquarters for the Caribbean and Latin America . The vast majority of Intec's CALA staff is based in São Paulo .
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About Intec
Intec is a leading Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) product vendor for fixed, mobile, MVNO and next-generation networks (e.g. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 680 installations of its products worldwide in 470 customers. Intec is a market leader in billing, mediation, mobile service charging and activation systems. For the year ended 30 September 2004, Intec reported revenues of £68.8 million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £8.7 million.
Intec's product portfolio includes:
- Singl.eView™ - dynamic transaction management/retail billing
- Inter-mediatE™ - convergent mediation solution;
- InterconnecT™ - inter-carrier billing including US CABS and ITU-based settlement;
- Inter-activatE™ - flow-through provisioning and activation;
- InterconnecT CPM™ - end-to-end content partner management;
- InterconnecT Optimised Routing™ - optimised wholesale routing;
- Intec DCP™ (Dynamic Charging Platform) – real-time pre/post-paid charging
Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), Nitel (Nigeria), Reliance (India), SingTel Optus (Australia), O2 Ireland, Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Telia (Sweden), Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Mobile, Vivo (Brasil), XO Communications and Verizon.
For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com