Precision Convergence

Alexander Prikazchikov, Senior Vice-President,
CBOSS Corporation:

Communications market in Russia is rather structured that is why CBOSS Corporation has for some years been developing business inside and outside the country. This is logical. World population is 6.5 billion people. About 20% of them do not need communications for instance because of their age. This leaves us with 5.2 billion potential subscribers. They are target group for all service providers, including mobile network operators. There are about 2.5 billion mobile phone users in the world. 140 million of them live in Russia that makes less than 6% of the total number.

STANDART №11(46), November 2006

The rest of the world is a huge market where all Russian telecommunications companies should aim. People in Russian telecommunications business keep saying that foreign assts are overpriced. I think they are on the opposite under priced. Arabian companies keep buying network operators all round the world.

Unlike oil, human communication is an endless resource. This market is endless just like information itself. To operate in the world telecommunications market is a more challenging but also a more rewarding task. Administrative resources are useless there, and you should daily prove that you are making the best decisions. You should offer solutions that meet the latest requirements or exceed them.

We operate in the five populated continents. In the last year the number of countries that use CBOSS solutions increased by 20%.

CBOSS offers to its clients a comprehensive integrated approach that covers all levels of IT-infrastructure: billing, user service, networkmanagement, a wide range of additional services, company management, performance analysis and forecasting.

CBOSS develops and produces intelligent technologies and offers full service of the system that includes applied and system software, hardware (with configuration), installation, implementation, maintenance and consulting. Its implementation technology guarantees quality, timeliness and 100% result.

Efficiency of our solutions is proved by thousands of installations.

Information today is transmitted world-wide via intelligent convergent networks. A man as a receiver is also convergent: he sees, hears and feels. CBOSS was one of the first developers of convergent solutions. That is why in philosophy and practice of convergence we are ahead of many companies, including many global players.

Network operation is becoming a more competitive and complicated business. OSS/BSS systems should also work with any type of information and be very reliable.

Reliability requirements shape the business: mass application is crucial for it now. How does one measure reliability of the billing system to protect the operator from fatal losses? Let us make a simple calculation. A hypothetic network operator has 1 million subscribers with an average Russian MOU (about 120 minutes a month). In one year all subscribers use 1.44 billion minutes. With a billing system that is 99.99% reliable the operator might lose 144,000 minutes of traffic annually. Now multiply this by the price of a minute… How much are you prepared to lose? And what if you had 15 instead of 1 million subscribers?

Thus, the billing system should have reliability much higher than 99.99%. At CBOSS we are making billing systems that have a higher reliability value and a competitive price. That means a Russian company and Russia itself own technologies that can be applied in one of the most promising markets. Let me emphasize: our strength is not in the price but in excellent results and quality of our IT-products.