Telcordia Highlights Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010 with Speaking Engagements & Sponsorship

Three Customers Present Successes and Strategies for Pricing, Retention and Value-Added Services

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Jan 25, 2010, 08:00 ET

PISCATAWAY, N.J., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Further demonstrating its leadership in real-time charging solutions as a sponsoring supporter of Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010, Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) today announced that three of its customers have been invited to speak at the event. Held January 25-28 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010 features more than 25 operator executive speakers from 13 regions and covers topics such as strategies for prepaid roaming, pricing, customer retention and value-added services (VAS).

Vishal Dubey, head of Asia-Pacific marketing at Idea Cellular, will speak January 26. His presentation, "Developing A Robust Analytics Program For Driving Up ARPU," will cover strategies for understanding customer behavior, retaining high-value customers, and cross-selling and upselling. Dubey also will lead the January 25 workshop, "Transforming Customer Analytics Into Actual Prepaid Business Value."

Ted Chang, head of prepaid mobile at Taiwan Mobile, will participate in the January 26 panel, "Trendwatch 2010: The Prepaid Market In Asia." The panel will cover country-specific trends, the recession's effect on prepaid usage and strategies for managing declining growth rates.

Pankaj Sethi, corporate service president at Tata Teleservices, will speak January 27. His presentation, "Effective VAS Product and Pricing Strategies in a Dynamic Prepaid Market," features examples of value-added products and services that have driven consumption even among low ARPU customers.

"Idea Cellular, Taiwan Mobile and Tata Teleservices Ltd. are real world success stories, making them natural choices for Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010," said Anuj Kapur, Country Head, India, Service Delivery Solutions, Telcordia. "Their innovation highlights the power and flexibility that Telcordia® Real-Time Charging and the Telcordia® Converged Application Server provide for operators in emerging and mature markets, including support for hybrid accounts, VAS, policy control and other market-differentiating, next generation prepaid services."

More details about Telcordia Real-Time Charging and the Telcordia Converged Application Server are available at www.telcordia.com/products/realtime_charging and www.telcordia.com/products/application_server.

For more information about Telcordia, visit www.telcordia.com and to read more about next generation prepaid visit www.telcordia.com/portfolios/service_delivery/index.html

About Telcordia

Telcordia, a global leader in the development of fixed, mobile and broadband communications software and services, enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs), enterprises, suppliers and government entities to successfully deploy innovative and advanced services that help our clients realize operational efficiencies, drive revenue, and maintain a competitive edge in the new era of services-dominated communications. Telcordia has globally trusted expertise in software and services to meet the needs of customers and partners, including, consulting, next-generation OSS, network and application interconnection, service delivery and charging solutions, industry research and new technology development. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J., with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com).