CommProve Partners with Telecom 180 in South Africa

Dublin, 8th October 2008 – CommProve, the leader in Radio Access Network Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile networks has today announced it will partner with Telecom 180 to deliver network monitoring services to a major South African mobile operator.

Telecom 180 will deliver professional services to the South African operator and support the deployment of CommProve’s Netledge monitoring system. Netledge captures every voice call and mobile data transaction in the network, highlights poor service and network quality, and enables rapid identification of problems.

Telecom 180 and CommProve have initiated a major program of knowledge transfer to ensure the smooth deployment and support of the nationwide system. Telecom 180, a System Integration Company is focused on providing corporate customers and operators (fixed and wireless), total turnkey next generation network technology solutions and managed support services.

“Selecting the right local partner was vital to meeting our customer’s schedule for the deployment of Netledge in South Africa. Telecom 180 quickly acquired the expertise required to install and commission more sites in parallel and compress the schedule.” said Giovanni Perrone, Customer Operations Director, CommProve.

“Being close to the customer ensures a successful implementation phase and long term high quality support. We are already responsible for local logistics and implementation, and are ready ahead of schedule to provide help-desk, onsite support and local hardware support once the system is fully deployed. Telecom 180 is a Black Empowerment company, ensuring that previously disadvantaged groups are engaged in our success. Not only through our ownership and employees, but also by taking our social responsibilities very seriously” said Delio Senatore, Director, Telecom 180.

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About CommProve
CommProve (www.commprove.com) established in 1996, is a multinational group with headquarters in Ireland, and offices in the UK, USA, Italy, Brazil and Spain. CommProve is the leader in network-wide 24×7 Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for GSM and UMTS Radio Access Networks. CommProve’s Netledge portfolio of OSS solutions helps operators reduce operating expenses, find and resolve problems quicker, and identify areas of revenue loss due to unacceptable QoS. By ensuring optimal QoS, CommProve enables operators to increase revenue by improving customer satisfaction and implement new service introductions faster. Netledge 3G Radio QoS won the GSM Association’s 2007 Global Mobile Network Quality Initiative Award.

About Telecom 180
Telecom 180˚ (www.telecom180.com) is a NGN (Next Generation Network) company characterized by its powerful engineering knowledge base. We focus exclusively on technologies and solutions for the telecommunications (ICT) industry, this being our core and sole interest.

A South African black owned company that includes consulting, technology provisioning, systems integration and project funding. The company’s geographic market is South Africa, Southern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Our ultimate goal is simplified operations through improved network intelligence and control,
· which has the potential to drastically reduce total network costs

177 provide the base on which new services are defined and supported.

For further information, please contact:
CommProve:
Paul Nolan at Companycare Communications
+ 44 (0) 118 939 5900 or commprove {at} the-cc-group(.)com

Telecom 180:
Delio Senatore – delio.senatore {at} telecom180(.)com