Belgian Mobile Number Portability Project assigned to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
21 March 2002
Number Portability has been a feature offered by the fixed telephony in Belgium since January 2000. From September 2002 onwards, this facility will also be made available to the customers of all mobile telecom operators. To achieve this, the mobile telecom operators, together with the fixed telecom operators have set up a Non Profit Association (NPA). The objective of the Association is to support the overall Number Portability in Belgium.
The NPA has commissioned Telecom Media Networks, an industry practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y)* to develop an appropriate data centre, which is to process the transactions with respect to the porting of phone numbers between the telecom operators. The ambitious turnkey project involves the development of the applications, the delivery of all required infrastructure, and the ongoing operation of the database centre afterwards.
By the end of 2002, CGE&Y will take over and integrate the current Fixed Number Portability services into its data centre.
‘Creating a centralised automated system that allows for a fast and faultless porting of mobile phone numbers is essential to the further liberalisation of the mobile telecom market here in Belgium’, says Mr. E. van Heesvelde, Managing Director of the Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT).
‘Under the leadership of BIPT, the introduction of the Number Portability system has been the subject of thorough discussions and extensive consultations between Belgacom Mobile, KPN Orange, Mobistar and the NPA. The contract signature is a rewarding result after the long and in-depth negotiations with the various providers’, claims the NPA.
“This contract confirms the trust of the Belgian telecom operators in CGE&Y as a supplier of top quality services. At present, it is a big challenge for CGE&Y to prove its expertise on the basis of its previous experience with similar projects both at home and abroad’, declares Luc Peigneux, General Manager Cap Gemini Telecom Media & Networks Belgium.
* The legal entity which has been assigned for the project
is Cap Gemini Telecom Media & Networks Belgium.
About the Group Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
The Group Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (www.cgey.com) is one of the largest management and IT consulting organisation in the world. The company offers management and IT consulting services, systems integration, and technology development, design and outsourcing capabilities on a global scale to help businesses continue to implement growth strategies and leverage technology in the new economy. The organization employs more than 56,500 people worldwide and reports 2001 global revenues of about 8.4 billion euros.
About Telecom Media NetworksTelecom Media Networks, an industry practice of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group, focuses on the consulting needs of communications service providers worldwide.
It offers a balanced mix of business consulting and technology implementation that enables communications service providers*both traditional businesses and dotcoms*to thrive in the network economy. Combining expert industry knowledge, strong partnerships, an excellent set of tested solutions and R&D capability, Telecom Media Networks is in the top
tier of global consulting and systems integration firms for the communications industry.
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