Issue 17 I May 2014

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Editorial

Wida Schmidt, CEO

CEO at Carrier CommunityWida Schmidt

Dear Readers,

I am delighted to announce the May e-magazine edition, which captures information about our forthcoming Annual GCCM in Berlin with details on the host and sponsors of our event. It also includes the latest announcement regarding PCCW Global and Etisalat Group signing a group framework agreement for voice interconnection as well as a press release from Epsilon, covering information on the platform they have developed for overcoming the issues related to the need of intelligent and capex-light options for interconnection given the fact that all-IP deployments are bolstering. We have as well included information about new Members who joined our Club this month.

Annual GCCM 2014 Berlin

Our Annual 2014 Berlin GCCM event will take place on 15th & 16th of September, where we expect 350 + carrier members from 150 + regional and international carriers attending the event, which is hosted by 42Com. During the same period and at the same venue, Carrier Community is also organising the annual ENPM 2014 Berlin Hosted by Deutsche Telekom. In the next pages, we have highlighted further details about our sponsors and Annual 2014 Berlin GCCM event.

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In our June edition we have included the latest announcements by PCCW Global and Etisalat Group as well as Epsilon.

PCCW Global’s will provide access to Etisalat Group for international IPX network capability that provides guaranteed end-to-end delivery of voice and mobile data services to more than 50 destinations over a private and managed IP network, carried by one of the world’s largest private IP backbones.

Epsilon launches its Intelligent Network Exchange (eINX). Building on its traditional voice- and data- exchange offering, eINX offers a service-aware transit layer that can enable carriers and other Epsilon customers to make significant CAPEX savings and reduce the time to take new services to global markets.

Industry news

Once again, we have picked up a few telecom related industry news to keep our members informed about the latest news in our industry.

New Members

Please visit our Global Online Member Directory to contact the new members who have joined our exclusive club this month.

Our Members feedback and comments are very important for us so please write to us so that we can further improve the services and grow this exclusive and global club.

Once again THANK YOU for all your support and trust.

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partnership model which complements both our offerings in various regions especially where we have small and medium sized operations and helps ensure that our customers benefit from global connectivity and experience the best services that they have come to expect from us.”

He added, “Having this group framework agreement will realize synergies among the various Etisalat operations across 19 countries and open the door for further collaboration between Etisalat Group and our selected partners to explore and collaborate on further innovations in our industry.”

PCCW Global owns one of the world’s largest private IP backbones and is ranked among the top-10 ISPs globally. Service providers are already able to connect to PCCW Global’s IPX capability in 130 countries and more than 3,000 cities.

About PCCW GlobalPCCW Global is the international

operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, which is majority-owned by PCCW Limited. Covering more than 3,000 cities and 130 countries, the PCCW

Global network supports a portfolio of integrated global communications solutions which include Ethernet solutions, IP solutions, fiber and satellite transmission solutions, managed services and solutions, international voice and VoIPX services.

PCCW Global maintains regional centers in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. To learn more about PCCW Global, please visit www.pccwglobal.com.

About Etisalat GroupStrong commitment to excellence and innovation

has seen Etisalat become one of the world’s fastest-growing telecom groups, rapidly expanding across Asia and Africa. Its UAE operations, strategically located at the crossroads of East and West, enables Etisalat to be the major hub in the Middle East for Internet, voice, broadcast, roaming and corporate data services.

Etisalat has been recognized as “Best Operator” 10 times since 2006 and “Best Wholesale Provider” four times in the last three years. With a footprint in 19 countries, Etisalat continues to reach out to .

HKT (SEHK: 6823) – HONG KONG / ABU DHABI, May 28, 2014 PCCW Global, the international operating division of

HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, and Etisalat Group, a leading telecom operator with operations in 19 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, have signed a group framework agreement (GFA) for voice interconnection.

The voice interconnection will access PCCW Global’s international IPX network capability which provides guaranteed end-to-end delivery of voice and mobile data services to more than 50 destinations over a private and managed IP network, carried by one of the world’s largest private IP backbones.

Etisalat Group operations will have direct access to PCCW Global routes into these countries around the world. This is via an extensive transmission network that combines MPLS, IPL, terrestrial and satellite links as well as PCCW Global’s 50-plus IPX interconnections. These operations will benefit from a unique solution that features end-to-end compression and remote regional switching dedicated to keeping regional traffic within the region.

PCCW Global’s customers and partners will benefit from the addition of Etisalat affiliate networks to the extensive list of MNOs that have chosen PCCW Global as a partner.

Mr. Emmanuel Bain, PCCW Global’s Vice President for Voice Services in Middle East and Africa, said, “This agreement will reinforce our already strong relations with Etisalat by putting more focus on Etisalat’s African and Asian operations while demonstrating our determination to turn customers’ business goals into reality through communications technology. In this regard, our IPX platform enables development and global delivery of new generation IP-based services such as our HD Video Calling service, with guaranteed levels of interoperability.”

He added, “PCCW Global serves MNOs with the genuine end-to-end value of IPX over a private and managed IP network, unlike some carriers which use Internet or international long distance links to access IPX platforms.”

Mr. Wael Ammar, Etisalat Group’s Executive Vice President for Carrier Services, said, “As a leading regional carrier and the fastest growing telecom operator in Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Etisalat Group is focused on bringing the best connectivity and quality to our customers wherever they may be. This agreement with PCCW Global is a continuation to our efforts to strengthen our offering through the right

PCCW Global and Etisalat Group sign group framework agreement for voice interconnectionPCCW Global serves MNOs with the genuine end-to-end value of IPX over a private and managed IP network

This agreement will reinforce our already strong relations with Etisalat by putting more focus on Etisalat’s African and Asian operations while demonstrating our determination to turn customers

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The coming months will bring a fresh dimension to IPX interconnection, as global infrastructure provider Epsilon launches its Intelligent Network Exchange (eINX). Building on its traditional voice- and data-exchange offering, eINX offers a service-aware transit layer that can enable carriers and other Epsilon cus-tomers to make significant CAPEX savings and reduce the time to take new services to global markets.

Andreas Hipp, Epsilon’s CEO and founder, highlights the growing need for these options as LTE roll-outs fuel the move towards all-IP networks. He points out that carriers transitioning towards next-generation infrastructure in their domestic markets will want to follow the same strategy internationally, but this is a CAPEX and time intensive endeavour. “To add value to a global network service there is now a need to look beyond the transport and be able to handle the service layer as well,” Hipp says.

Epsilon’s eINX platform pro-vides much-needed help in achieving this goal. The propo-sition is built on top of the com-pany’s already well-established Global Network Exchange (eGNX), a traditional trans-port layer that provides interconnection capabilities to more than 500 customers in about 170 countries. Hipp says that one major advantage for Epsilon’s ex-isting partners is that they are already physically con-nected to the infrastructure and only the signaling interconnect has to be established. “For most, there won’t be any extra cost,” he says.

Not only that, but the pay-as-you-go charging model for eINX also provides unique benefits, such as ena-bling carriers to avoid upfront CAPEX costs as well as fixed monthly charges. “Customers pay per minute for calls when normally they would rent the circuit and pay a fixed monthly fee no matter if the circuit is used

or not,” says Hipp. “This is a no-risk approach for carriers.” In ad-dition, it fits in nicely with Epsi-lon’s overall ethos of providing a CAPEX-light outsourcing model.

eINX is expected to be ready for service in July and is based on a

cloud model that Hipp says offers “intelligent network as a service”, with an IPX transit layer that manages and controls the service and offers features including end-to-end QoS, full network visibility and analytics. He says other providers have sought to interconnect IPXs by moving to MPLS networks, but that only offers QoS on the transport but not on the service and plat-form performance itself like a truly intelligent service such as eINX.

The drive towards all-IP deployments is bolstering the need for intelligent and capex-light options for interconnection. Epsilon CEO Andreas Hipp details how his company has come up with an ideal solution.

Epsilon ushers in a new dawn for intelligent Network as a Service (iNaaS)

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IP Multimedia Service Platform

eINX uses IP Multimedia Services equipment ( en-hanced Session Border Controllers) that one of Epsi-lon’s own technology division has developed. From scratch. These are provided through Cataleya, a whol-ly-owned subsidiary which has already deployed the equipment in Epsilon’s global network that is being trialled by service providers in the US, Europe and Asia.

“Our platform is very differ-ent from others and besides its outstanding performance metrics, full end to end QoS and QoE enablement, gives a great amount of visibility via its GUI,” says Hipp. “It makes all provisioning and changes much faster, is very easy to use and reduces opera-tional costs. There are very satisfactory results for this product so far.” He adds that Cataleya also sells the platform to other networks, which then can peer with eINX and thus create a true end-to-end global net-work.

Meanwhile, Epsilon plans to add further features to eINX in the near future, such as support for voice-over-LTE (VoLTE), Diameter signalling applications and enterprise functions.

Hipp also emphasises the benefits offered by eINX through its analytics capabilities, providing visibility

on all aspects of the network between interconnect points and showing how the network, the services and the platform performs. “If there’s a problem on the network and a set SLA drops below the agreed level, it will detect and attempt to fix the problem,” he says. “That’s unique and people really love it. Before, you knew what the problem was, but you couldn’t detect where it was.”

According to Hipp, intelligent IPX interconnection is key in the current environment, with a need to offer value-adds as IP deployments continue to prolif-erate. “The driver behind eINX was that once anything moves to an all-IP infrastructure, the exchange will be reduced to a basic transport mechanism and there’s no value

you can add,” he says. “There are also lots of new pro-viders that offer over-the-top services and don’t really build networks, which need to be able to offer services to a lot of providers very quickly.”

Overall, shifting market dynamics have meant that offerings such as eINX pave the way for the future as carriers refocus from traditional towards next-gener-ation services, says Hipp: “We see that there’s a strong shift from TDM to IP among carriers. Now with LTE becoming live, this will become accelerated as carriers start to appreciate new concepts and models. It will take three to five years for TDM to disappear, but it will happen.”

There are also lots of new providers that offer over-the-top services and don’t really build networks, which need to be able to offer services to a lot of providers very quickly

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Indian watchdog the De-partment of Telecommunica-tions (DoT) has rejected Voda-fone India’s requests to renew seven mobile licences which are due to expire in December next year and denied it the option to keep the associated spectrum holdings, the Eco-nomic Times writes. The UK-backed cellco submitted its request to renew its licences for Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Hary-ana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh East, Maharashtra and Gujarat in May. Under the terms of the

Vodafone denied licence renewal in seven circles5 June 2014

concessions, which were origi-nally awarded in 1995, operators were permitted to extend their authorisations for a further ten years after the initial 20-year licence period. In rejecting the request, the DoT noted that the sector had changed too much since the licences were first al-located to permit the extension. Instead, the DoT has told Voda-fone that it will need to convert the authorisations to unified li-cences and re-purchase the fre-quencies at a competitive auc-tion to be held later this year.

PCCW subsidiary UK Broad-band has announced the launch of a new LTE-based wireless broadband service for both residential and business users in London. Offering con-nectivity under the ‘Relish’ banner, the company has said it ‘aims to disrupt the London broadband market with a com-bination of instant connection, unlimited data, and transpar-ent pricing’. With coverage initially limited to ‘Central London’, and services available ‘with immediate effect’ for both consumers and businesses, the company has said it plans to expand across Greater London and out to other UK towns and cities in the future. Meanwhile, four plans are being offered, those being: ‘Home Broadband’, ‘Business Broadband’, ‘Mobile Broadband (Pocket Hub)’ and ‘Dedicated Business Internet’. The Home Broadband option, which the company is market-ing as being a direct replace-ment for traditional fixed line services, offer unlimited usage and download speeds of up to 65Mbps, for a monthly charge of GBP20 (USD39). Meanwhile,

UK Broadband launches ‘Relish’ wireless broadband service in London5 Jun 2014

the Mobile Broadband tariff range offers multiple options, with prices based on monthly usage allowance, starting at GBP10 for a 1GB cap, rising to GBP20 for a 35GB cap.

Commenting on the launch, Nicholas James, CEO of UK Broadband, said: ‘Central Lon-don is home to some of the world’s most talented and busy people, who have to suf-fer long delays in getting their broadband service set up and pay a ‘landline tax’ for a ser-vice they often don’t need. Rel-ish wants to give Londoners the broadband they deserve – and will shake up the market with a fair and transparent service that meets the digital demands of modern London-ers.’

As noted in TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, Hong Kong-based PCCW’s British broadband unit UK Broad-band announced the switch-on of what it claimed was not only the UK’s first LTE deploy-ment, but also the first Time Division LTE (TD-LTE) 3.5GHz deployment in the world, in February 2012.

Indonesian telecoms tower operator Sarana Menara Nusan-tara (SMN) is looking to raise USD332 million via a rights is-sue of shares this month to fi-nance its network expansion in the country. The company says it will issue 1.02 billion new shares on a ‘non-preemptive rights’ basis, which is equiva-lent to around 10% of SMN’s enlarged share capital. The monies will be used to allow

Tower operator SMN looking to raise USD332m for Indonesian expansion5 Jun 2014

its subsidiary Protelindo to begin building new mobile towers across the country, including 2,000 new units in 2014. SMN is targeting a total of almost 10,000 tow-ers nationwide by the end of the year, with the expan-sion plan also set to include the planned acquisition of a stake in Mitratel, the tower-provider unit of domestic telco Telkom Indonesia.

Verizon has threatened to take legal action against Net-flix if the streaming video provider does not stop dis-playing a message to custom-ers blaming Verizon for slow services. In a letter to Netflix's legal counsel, Verizon gave the company five days to stop dis-playing any messages blam-ing Verizon for video qual-ity issues and provide Verizon with details on which cus-tomers had seen such a mes-sage. The news follows a tweet from a journalist with a photo of the message Netflix shows on the screen for users who

Verizon threatens legal action over Netflix network claimsFriday 6 June 2014

experience buffering: "The Ve-rizon network is crowded right now."

Verizon said in a statement that the "this claim is not only inaccurate, it is deliberately misleading". It denied its net-work was the source of the con-gestion and said it's more likely to do with the path Netflix has chosen to reach Verizon's net-work. "It is sad that Netflix is willing to deliberately mislead its customers so they can be used as pawns in business ne-gotiations and regulatory pro-ceedings," Verizon said. In April, Netflix agreed an interconnec-tion deal with Verizon.

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Tanzanian mobile network operators Airtel, Tigo and Zan-tel yesterday announced the signing of a pioneering agree-ment to allow users of their respective Airtel Money, Tigo M-Pesa and Zantel’s EzyPesa services to send money to each other from their hand-sets. The move marks the first interoperability of e-money services anywhere in Africa and is expected to be live in the country by the end of June. In a joint press statement, the three carriers listed the major

Airtel, Tigo and Zantel establish mobile money interoperability in Tanzania

benefits their customers will enjoy, such as the ability to send money at more afford-able rates and in a simplified way which does not require the use of PIN codes when making withdrawals – as had been the practice before sign-ing of the agreement. The trio also noted the role of the Bank of Tanzania for facilitating in-teroperability, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and IFC for playing the lead role in the initiative.

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The government of the Cen-tral African Republic has re-portedly imposed a ban on the use of SMS messages, with any attempts to send text messages met with an error reading “SMS not allowed”.

The ban, which will last sev-eral days, comes in response to security concerns as residents of the capital Bangui have been communicating via SMS to spark outbreaks of violence.

Communications Minister Abdallah Assan Kadre said: “On the instruction of the prime minister…in order to contribute to the restoration of security in the country, the use of SMS by all mobile phone subscribers is suspended.”

The city has been beset by violent attacks in recent days, with protesters demanding that the current government step down. Religious tensions are exacerbating the troubles, with Christians destroying a mosque following a grenade at-tack in a Catholic church. These actions have prompted SMS

Central African Republic blocks SMS messaging

campaigns attempting to or-ganise strikes, mass protests and even encouraging ethnic-ity-based attacks.

Violence has been ongoing in the Central African Repub-lic but has intensified in re-cent months after a predomi-nantly Muslim rebel group known as the Seleka stormed the capital in March, taking power. This prompted clashes with Christian defence groups calling themselves the anti-balaka.

Amnesty International’s senior crisis response advis-er Joanne Mariner said that based on the time she had spent in the war-torn country, there was there was a “definite possibility of at least some at-tacks being coordinated by phone”.

She added that the anti-balaka had made threatening phone calls to Muslim civil-ians, and that the fighting fac-tions had used their phones to take “horrible trophy photos” of opposition casualties.

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Southeast Asia’s largest tele-coms group Singapore Telecom (SingTel) is reported to be in advanced talks to acquire the US-based digital advertising company Kontera for USD160 million, the Wall Street Jour-nal reports. Sources close to the talks suggest that a deal may be reached within the next few days, although equally, the discussions could still fail. Kontera, which booked annual

SingTel in advanced talks to buy US-based ad firm Kontera5 Jun 2014

revenue of around USD50 mil-lion in 2011, tracks content on social media sites. It was founded in 2000 by its chief executive Yoav Shaham and chief operating officer Assaf Henkin. Based in San Fran-cisco, Kontera provides an ad-vertisement platform for web-sites that hyperlinks words to external content. SingTel and Kontera declined to comment on the rumour.

Telefonica has lost its appeal against the ultimatum is-sued by Brazil's anti-trust regulator (Cade) to scale back its influence in the Brazilian telecoms sector. In December Cade ordered Telefonica to either sell its interest in TIM Par-ticipacoes (Tim Brasil), the local unit of Telecom Italia, or find a new partner for its own Vivo unit. The regulator also confirmed a fine of BRL 15 million imposed on Telefonica for breaching a performance agreement signed in 2010, in which the Spanish group agreed not to participate in TIM Brasil’s management decisions or raise its stake in Telecom Italia. Telefonica has a timeframe of 18 months in which to comply with Cade’s ruling.

However, according to Brazilian daily Estadao, Telefonica is now considering taking the matter to the civil courts on the grounds that the agreement to raise its stake in Telecom Italia through investment vehicle Telco will not have reper-cussions on the Brazilian market, since the corresponding shares are without voting rights. The situation is compli-cated by the fact that the Telefonica-led Telco partnership is due to be unravelled later this month, with two of the Italian shareholders, Generali and Mediobanca, planning to exit the holding.

Faced with the choice, Telefonica would push for the sale of TIM Brasil according to unnamed sources cited in Estadao. Telefonica and Oi are reportedly exploring the possibility of breaking up TIM Brasil after the Brazilian elections in Octo-ber this year but Telecom Italia CEO Marco Patuano is said to favour retaining TIM Brasil and seeking a potential merger with Vivendi’s Brazilian subsidiary GVT.

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has acquired Geo Networks, a London-based dark fibre provider. The acquisition will add over 2,100 route miles to Zayo’s European network, and connectivity to 587 on-net buildings. Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Watts and Chris Smedley, Geo owns and operates a high capacity fiber network in the UK, providing managed networks, dark fiber and co-location services to a variety of high-bandwidth sectors including media companies, service providers, financial services, data centers and gaming organizations.

and Etisalat Group have signed a group framework agreement (GFA) for voice interconnection. Etisalat Group operations will have direct access to PCCW Global routes into these countries around the world. This is via an extensive transmission network that combines MPLS, IPL, terrestrial and satellite links as well as PCCW Global’s 50-plus IPX interconnections.

the global leader in F e d e r a t i o n - b a s e d interconnection and Telephone Number Registry services, and Extol, a leading ICT solution provider in Malaysia and Indonesia, have launched the Asia Interconnect Exchange (AIX). AIX provides local and regional service providers with hub-based IP interconnection services allowing them to connect their Next-Generation Networks and VoIP communications seamlessly via a single platform.

published its first Law Enforcement Disclosure report which provides a detailed insight into the legal frameworks, governance principles and operating procedures associated with responding to demands for assistance from law enforcement and intelligence agencies across 29 countries. The report covers agency and authority demands for lawful interception and communications data for the period 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014.

has established an NNI agreement with GTS, a leading Central and Eastern European telecommunications solutions and data center services provider, increasing Telstra’s footprint in Europe and providing greater connectivity and redundancy options for businesses in the region. GTS’ 27 Points of Presence (PoPs) across Central and Eastern Europe – including cities such as Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest – will enhance Telstra Global’s existing IP VPN service coverage of more than 1,900 PoPs in 230 countries and territories worldwide.

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has agreed to acquire Neotel from Tata Communications for an enterprise value of ZAR 7.0 billion. This follows the announcement late last year that the parties were entering into exclusive talks for a due diligence. The structure of the deal and its commercial terms remain subject to regulatory and competition authority approvals and the parties will be immediately commencing the necessary processes in that regard.

announced that plans are underway for the company’s latest investment into expanding its Trans-Pacific footprint. Based on state-of-the-art 100G technology, the Pacific Cloud Xchange (PCX) cable will be a four fibre pair system with initial design capacity per fiber pair at 100 x 100Gb/s using next generation Coherent Submarine Fibre. The new system will be ready for service in 2015.

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has signed an agreement with Vyve Broadband, a US-based cable and Internet services provider, to deliver the Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution. This cloud-based solution delivers full-featured voice services and a simplified operational environment. Selection of the Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution will provide Vyve the platform to enhance its delivery of voice services and ensure a reliable customer experience while minimizing the typical infrastructure and ongoing operating expenses of an in-house solution.

announced that its CEO, Dan Zajicek, has been appointed to the board of African carriers’ carrier, WIOCC. Gilat Satcom Nigeria, a subsidiary of Gilat Satcom, was a founding shareholder in WIOCC, and it has always held a board-level position. The involvement of Gilat Satcom’s CEO and the company’s continuing investment in WIOCC reflects the ever-increasing demand from its customers for high-speed fibre connectivity in Africa.

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• BIG Ltd.• Rigel Voice Ltd• IVON NETWORKS Ltd• Cel Telecom ltd• VasudevGlobal Ltd• PT. Jivan Jaya Makmur Telecom• TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC)• Telekom Slovenije• Telehouse

• Telefónica SA• GTT - a brand operated by Tinet GmbH• TelecomItalia Sparkle S.p.A• TELECOM SERVICES USA INC• Columbus Networks USA Inc.• Worldcom International Communication (W.I.C.)• Cordial Communications

Established in 2009, NGN CORP is a fast growing international voice carrier focusing on both wholesale and retail Voice over IP services. With offices in Lebanon and subsidiaries in Montreal Canada, and Nairobi Kenya, NGN CORP has successfully built over the years solid partnerships with selective Telecom Operators and wholesale voice carriers around the world. Our focus on quality directs to Middle East, Africa, and SEA, has positioned us as strategic suppliers to many Tier1 Telecom providers. We pride ourselves on a high quality of service with an emphasis on long standing relationships with our customers & partners.

NGN Corp

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