VIENNA, Va.—June 17, 2009— Deutsche Telekom AG’s International Carrier Sales & Solutions unit (NYSE: DT), and iXLink®, a business unit of Telarix, Inc., announced today that they had been awarded the distinguished Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award in the “Wholesale Service Innovation” category. The prestigious award of Global Telecoms Business, a leading telecom magazine, honors the most innovative telecommunication achievements that have redefined the present and future course of the industry.
Deutsche Telekom ICSS is the pioneering founding member of iXLink. As an open business information exchange service for the telecom industry, iXLink reduces the costs and complexities associated with interconnection including the purchase and sales processes, international dial code management, billing, invoice validation, and settlement. iXLink’s flexible design supports fixed, mobile and VoIP service providers of any size, location or technical sophistication, is easy to implement, and provides immediate results. By electronically delivering business data and documents through a common information exchange service, carriers are able to streamline their interconnection management processes and reduce the complexity and administrative costs surrounding daily interconnect transactions. ICSS was the first to use the iXLink Price List Receipt, for example, to simplify and automate the wholesale interconnect purchase process in 2007, when the service was launched. Since that time, ICSS and iXLink have worked together closely to bring their carrier partners on board. In September 2007, Deutsche Telekom ICSS introduced iXLink’s new Price List Distribution Service, an electronic document management service for global service providers that automates the selling process for international wholesale voice. More than 500 carriers worldwide are now using iXLink to exchange business information automatically with other service providers.
The Global Telecoms Business awards were presented to winners at a gala dinner at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London last night. More than 250 leaders of the global telecom industry attended the ceremony.
“As the pioneering founding member of iXLink we're especially excited to be recognized for this pioneering achievement,” Helmut Angst, Senior Vice President of Deutsche Telekom, ICSS, said. “By partnering with Telarix, the leading provider of interconnect OSS/BSS solutions, we have created the telecom industry’s first business information exchange, which has fundamentally redefined how the world’s carriers conduct business with one another.”
“Deutsche Telekom’s focus on technology innovation has enabled it to become one of the leading global service providers, which has been critical to the success of iXLink,” Don Lynch, CEO of Telarix, said. “By directly linking the world’s carriers and their interconnect processes, iXLink has enabled service providers across the world to significantly reduce costs and increase control over interconnect transactions as well as strengthen their overall intercarrier business relationships. We are honored to receive this highly regarded award, which reaffirms the important role iXLink has in the telecommunications industry.”
About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)
ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe, the Americas and Asia.
With continuously changing markets, ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultramodern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.
For further information, see http://www.deutschetelekom.com/icss
About iXLink
iXLink is a neutral business exchange service designed specifically for the telecom industry. Created in conjunction with a number of the world’s largest telecom providers, iXLink provides a secure, reliable business-to-business information exchange platform that enables communication service providers to automate business processes as well as quickly and efficiently access and share business documents among their trading partners. iXLink is a business unit of Telarix Inc., the world’s leading provider of business information exchange and interconnect OSS/BSS solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators. Please visit www.ixlink.com for more information.
CONTACT:
Lisa Perez
Telarix, Inc.,
703-564-9626
lperez@telarix.com
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