MACH - MACH acquires Roaming Service Bureau (RSB) from WorldCell - Seamless inter-standard adrift is now possible

Luxembourg, 20th November 2008 – MACH today appear that it has acquired the Roaming Service Bureau (RSB) business from WorldCell, a North American provider of all-around wireless solutions to Mobile Operators and Enterprise customers. This accretion enables MACH to action seamless articulation and abstracts adrift casework to audience alignment from CDMA and appearing GSM/UMTS operators to providers of WiMAX.

RSB is a absolute accession to MACH’s abstracted portfolio of solutions that abutment today’s inter-standard and interoperability needs, as able-bodied as approaching IP-based NGN networks. While inter-standard adrift has been about for some time, it has never been a seamless acquaintance for the subscriber or the operator.

RSB’s apparent awaiting software brokers Mobile IP to Simple IP technology. Achieving an industry first, it charcoal the alone turnkey band-aid that enables a basic home ambiance for subscribers that roam amid aberrant technologies. This affection allows a Mobile Operator’s branded abstracts casework to be continued to any arrangement with one affiliation to RSB. For Operators and their subscribers, this technology allows appearance and applications to plan allegedly – appropriately the subscriber’s basic home extends alfresco the home advantage area, bequest technology and to new geographies. Subscribers can now globally acceptance abstracts casework such as; area based casework or navigation.

RSB’s advocate end-to-end turnkey band-aid enables articulation and packet abstracts adrift amid assorted standards after any added connectivity to cover CDMA, GSM, UMTS, WLAN and Next Generation Networks such as WiMAX and LTE.

In accession to the IP technology, RSB brings hundreds of bags of subscribers, apprenticed by the advance and acceptance of smartphones such as RIM’s Blackberry devices. These subscribers represent some of the accomplished ARPU barter in the industry, as they amount the adeptness to roam about the apple with reliable acceptance to articulation and abstracts casework anywhere, anytime – there is no charge to change from GSM to CDMA, WiMAX, etc. - advantage is automatic.

Martin Lippert, CEO of MACH explained, “MACH is committed to affair the evolving needs of wireless operators, and the challenges associated with bridge networks. From abetment of account agreements to acquirement assurance, MACH is relied aloft to extend the borders for casework every day. The accretion of RSB is added acceptance that the industry can depend aloft MACH to accredit articulation and abstracts casework in means that drive amount to an operator’s a lot of admired customers.”

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About MACH
MACH is the provider of able and reliable business processes to optimise adrift profitability.

MACH helps telecommunications companies, enterprises and new licensees on 5 continents throughout the apple to defended and advance absolute and new acquirement streams. We specialise in outsourced adrift solutions: from Open Connectivity via our advanced adrift hub and SMS hub, through to adrift artifice aegis and Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE), clearing, billing, interconnect, WLAN and CIBER.

MACH is appreciative to be a affiliate of the industry’s arch authoritative organisations such as the GSMA,WiMAX Forum, Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), Rural Cellular Association (RCA), CDMA Development Group (CDG) and CTIA, and works endlessly to abutment and coact on the latest adrift initiatives and innovations. With about 700 advisers and offices in 11 countries worldwide, we amalgamate all-around ability with bounded ability in anniversary of our markets. For added advice amuse appointment www.mach.com

Contact:
Sophia Bødiker
Global Marketing Project Manager
spa@mach.com
+45 45902024

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