Primus Telecom launched global wholesale prepaid

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 07 May 2006 19:22

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Primus Telecommunications, which claims to be one of the world's ten largest carriers of international voice traffic, has launched a wholesale global managed prepaid service targeted for carriers and distributors of prepaid card services.
The service use the global TDM, VOIP and prepaid calling card infrastructure owned and operated by Primus and makes us of Primus' experience in providing wholesale carrier services and managing retail prepaid card services.

"Our new service is primarily designed to provide any telecom operator or prepaid card distributor a 'one-stop shopping' packaged solution that allows accelerated entry into the prepaid card market without any up-front capital expenditures and without the need to set up a large operational organisation," said Stephen McIntyre, who has been appointed to lead Primus's combined wholesale and prepaid card divisions as its president.

"With our networks and systems in place, we can launch a customer's new service quickly," McIntyre claimed. "Customers will also have the choice of selecting from the range of support services primus can provide: multiple access types (toll free, local access, ITFS); service based on 'Pins' or CLI recognition/pinless; partial to full management of their partition within the platform; access and termination for calls or 'transport' calls back to the wholesale customer to terminate the calls themselves.