Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
BT has announced $US21 million investment to upgrade its global voice network from time-division multiplex (TDM) to all Internet Protocol (IP) operation.
The program will see the legacy TDM network replaced across more than 30 countries worldwide and will, BT says "dramatically increase the scale and capacity of BT's global voice capability and facilitate the deployment of advanced services for customers."
BT says the first phase of the program is already complete and services are being offered over the new platform in 12 countries. It plans to rollout the new platform to three new countries per quarter and to shutdown the legacy network in 2008.
Approximately half of the initial global rollout plan applies to Asia Pacific markets, where BT says it is seeing an average 45 percent year-on year growth in overall voice traffic on the current global managed voice network.
Seven nodes have already been rolled out across Asia Pacific markets in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Japan. According to BT, "The resulting IP voice network is a first for the Asia Pacific region, providing customers with a flexible roadmap which allows them to evolve their voice estate to IP at a pace that suits their business plan. This is possible because the new network is designed to fully support traditional voice services as well as providing many advanced multimedia features."
The network is also claimed to offer "a never before seen level of integration between applications and network services," which BT says will be of particular benefit to customers with CRM applications. "[These] can be integrated with the network delivering the business transformation required as well as delivering cost savings through rationalisation of their CRM infrastructure."
David Bass
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