October 10, 2009
Vodafone Roaming Services Select CAMELhub(TM)

1st October, 2009


Vodafone Roaming Services delivers enhanced prepay roaming services through United Hubbing’s CAMELhubTM technology
United Hubbing’s unique CAMELhubTM technology platform has been selected by Vodafone Roaming Services for the launch of CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic) services globally.

London UK. – United Hubbing Limited, a leading provider of technology and business solutions for the global roaming telecommunications industry, announced today it signed an agreement with Vodafone Roaming Services to provide its CAMELhubTM solution to Vodafone’s roaming hub. The hosted solution enables connected operators to accelerate the provision of roaming services to their pre-paid customers.

"This a landmark deal for United Hubbing and Vodafone Roaming Services to offer international roaming capabilities to Pre-Paid subscribers all over the world that should extend reach to areas normally only covered by post-paid. We have a unique solution that allows mobile networks using any phase of CAMEL to seamlessly interconnect and allow international roaming without any extra investment in technology or the need to upgrade their switches” said Sergey Rykov, CEO, United Hubbing.

Dave Smithwhite, Director of Vodafone Roaming Services added "The unique combination of our roaming hub and United Hubbing’s CAMEL interoperability solution will enable mobile operators to expand their prepay footprint, traffic, and revenues faster and more economically than ever before."

Additionally, Rykov said, “United Hubbing has an exceptionally experienced team with an outstanding track record in the GSM industry. We’ve been at the forefront of developing new and innovative services for the GSM industry since the earliest introduction of the concepts of GSM Networks. Our aim was to build a business not only for making roaming more efficient but to deliver mobile operators new revenue streams without an increase in additional costs. We now have a scalable service that has been designed to provide unrivalled flexibility and performance to meet the demands of existing and new requirements in Roaming Hubbing”.

"The focus for the world’s Mobile Networks has changed in the last few years, from just managing the costs of infrastructure, set-up and expansion, to creating a seamless end-to-end service for customers. Emphasis is also firmly on reducing their costs both internally and from suppliers. Finding the services that can deliver revenue without increases in costs is the primary focus in the minds of key decision makers. This change inevitably means a new approach to selecting suppliers that can provide services to meet the needs of mobile operators for today and the future," Rykov said.

About United Hubbing

United Hubbing is a leading provider of Roaming Hubbing Services and Solutions to the GSM marketplace. As a GSMA certified Roaming Hub provider, the company provides solutions for pre and post-paid roaming services, international Top-up, Signaling, GRX and SMS hub solutions. Headquartered in London the company also has offices in Dubai, Moscow and Bermuda.

CAMEL

CAMEL is a signaling protocol allowing home networks to monitor and control calls made by their prepay roamers real-time. It defines services over and above the GSM standard, enabling subscribers to roam internationally using pre-paid handsets.