Lucent Wins Belize Network Contract

Belize Telecommunications (BTL) has announced an agreement for Lucent to deploy a real-time rating and charging solution for BTL voice and data services. BTL will be launching soon a range of new and enhanced services to its prepaid customers using Lucent's SurePay Real Time Rating and Charging Engine. The Lucent SurePay solution is a highly scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution that provides support for a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce services.

"As we roll-out our advanced features and service packages to our growing prepaid customer base, we will leverage Lucent's SurePay platform to support a wide range of flexible payment plans, service bundles and promotions targeted to particular customer segments," said Dean Boyce, Chairman of the Executive Committee of BTL. "This will enable BTL to respond to the needs of the market and deliver enhanced value proposition, as well as to maximize the return on our investment."

Lucent is also supplying BTL with a SMSC platform with the Wireless Messaging Gateway (WMG) module that allows users to send and receive short messages to and from email addresses.

Lucent Worldwide Services is in charge of integrating the SurePay application with the customer's current infrastructure and provide complete installation and integration of the Lucent applications suite.

The Mobile World subscriber database states that BTL is estimated to have some 155,000 subscribers. The company is the monopoly operator in the country."

Posted to the site on 21st September 2006