Alcatel Wins Dutch PrePay Contract

Alcatel has been awarded a contract by KPN Mobile for the supply of a new prepaid solution, including real-time payment and charging applications for voice, data and SMS services. Alcatel's prepaid solution also identifies in real-time a chargeable service and then debits the corresponding amount from the prepaid user's account. Business and residential customers can then control their own services through the Internet and Internet-enabled phones such as i-mode. For example, a residential customer can check their account balance or top-up their prepaid account. The real time rating engine can provide customers real time cost control for voice, data and SMS.

Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel will deploy a complete Intelligent Network solution built on its 8690 Open Services Platform (OSP) along with the Alcatel payment suite including the Alcatel 8618 Rating Engine and the Alcatel 8696 Lite Service Creation Environment (SCE).

The flexible openness and structure of the Alcatel OSP easily integrates with existing modules of other payment solutions and is able to inter-work with a multi-vendor network. This will enable KPN Mobile to efficiently support additional services beyond prepaid as well as next generation applications such as streaming video, web access (Virtual Private Network), OSA Parlay and Location Based Services.

"Alcatel's Open Services Platform will significantly enhance our rating and charging capabilities," declared Cees van den Heijkant, Managing Director of KPN Mobile The Netherlands. "In a highly competitive mobile market, we are challenged to offer our customers an accurate and transparent payment system to give them full real-time control over their expenses in order to accommodate the ever-growing demand for advanced mobile data services. The Alcatel OSP is an attractive option which perfectly meets these requirements in a cost-effective manner. "

Posted to the site on 16th December 2003