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- MaxBill Selected By Crane Telecommunications
Group for Multi-National holesale Project in Europe
- London, United Kingdom – October 10, 2000 – MaxBill,
an innovative provider of cost-effective Customer Care and Billing
(CC&B) systems for providers of usage-based and event-driven
telecommunications related services, has been selected by Crane
Telecommunications Group to support its multi-national wholesale
operation. Crane is a leading supplier of telecommunications voice
and data systems and services to the enterprise market across
Europe. Crane’s Telecommunications Management Ltd. (TML)
division will utilize the MaxBill CC&B system to manage its
customer, dealer, reseller and partner relationships as well as
the billing activities for its multi-national operation in Europe.
MaxBill successfully implemented its solution into full production
in just six weeks and will provide Internet-based functionality
for Crane’s dealers and resellers in local markets to access
the system remotely via a Virtual Private Network.
- “The functionality to support our international operation,
including a truly multilingual system, from a single system implementation
was the driving factor in our selection of MaxBill,” said
David George, Crane Telecommunications Group’s Managing Director.
“Our mission is to make TML the top supplier of telecommunications
services to the enterprise market in Europe. The pro-active relationship
management functionality of the MaxBill system will help us maximize
customer retention and reduce time-to-market, which will ultimately
enable us to achieve and maintain our company objectives.”
- “This project extends MaxBill’s growing presence in
the European telecommunications market,” said Vladimir Mitrasinovic,
Managing Director of MaxBill’s EMEA Operations. “We
are pleased to provide Crane a MaxBill system containing advanced
customer services and relationship management including eCRM functionalities.
We have proven again that MaxBill can
provide quality and advanced OSS/BSS solutions in short time schedules,
while establishing a strong partnership relationship with our
client.”
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About Crane Telecommunications
Crane Telecommunications was formed in June 1990 by founding
Directors, David George, Tracy Jackson and David Campbell-James.
The Company is a leading value-added provider of telecommunications
equipment and services through resellers to the small to medium
enterprise market. Crane is currently headquartered in Burgess
Hill, West Sussex. The company currently employs over 300 personnel.
Crane’s 1999-2000 revenues amounted to £59.3m. Crane
currently sells telecommunications equipment, software and services
via a network of over 200 resellers in the UK, Spain and The
Netherlands. In addition The Crane Group offers fixed and mobile
voice and data resale services through its fully owned subsidiary
company, TML (Telecommunications Management Limited), to UK
Resellers. TML fixed line services are also
available in Spain and The Netherlands. Crane has partner agreements
with world-class product and services suppliers, including Avaya
Communication (formerly Lucent Technologies), LG Information
& Communications, ntl, BT Cellnet and Energis. Partners
in Europe, include BT Telecomunicaciones in Spain and Telfort
in The Netherlands.Crane Resellers enjoy unprecedented levels
of support in terms of sales, marketing and technical assistance,
including full training of all staff. This level of support
was recognised at the Industry awards in May 2000 when the Crane
Group won the “Best istributor”
award. The Company has shown an unbroken record of growth and
profitability since its inception and its aim is to become the
leading European value-added provider of telecommunications
equipment and services through its resellers.
About MaxBill
MaxBill provides high quality, complete, cost-effective
financial solutions for service providers worldwide. MaxBill
delivers a convergent, carrier-grade platform to support the
advanced and evolving business needs of both traditional (wireline,
wireless, utilities) and next generation (3G, PLC and IP) services.
MaxBill combines a powerful and scalable next-generation billing
engine, service-enabling platform and customer-centric CRM powered
by universal workflows on a Universal Consolidating Platform
(UCP). MaxBill is unique in offering a comprehensive solution
that is both modular and rapidly deployable. Providers can achieve
service and revenue assurance, using one flexible, component-based
solution.
Contacts:
Ilan Solel
MaxBill Ltd
Tel:+44 208 324 1585
Fax:+44 208 324 1720
ilans@maxbill.com
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MaxBill
Selected by Crane - October 10, 2000