Azure Launches NGN Fraud Control

LONDON -- Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced the launchof its next-generation Azure Fraud Control System (AFCS) as part of itsnext-generation revenue-assurance portfolio roll-out. Revenue assurance isthe reduction of losses and safeguarding of profits from both malicious andunintentional revenue leakage. Survey evidence suggests revenue leakagewill become an even more complex issue for operators as they deploynext-generation mobile and IP-driven services, many of which are paid forvia the networks themselves.

Azure has been helping operators prevent fraud over current networks formany years. It has used this extensive telecoms fraud-prevention experienceto develop a next-generation fraud-control system to combat fraudsters asthey turn their attention to next-generation services. In order to achieve ahealthy, vibrant next-generation market, it is vital that carriers andsoftware, content and equipment providers are confident that their effortswill not be hijacked by unscrupulous people looking to profit illegally frompoorly protected services.

Pete Watts, head of fraud operations at Azure Solutions, said: “Telecomsfraud is nothing new and it will never entirely go away. Azure has beenassisting telcos, worldwide to keep fraud to acceptable and manageablelevels very successfully, but the introduction of next-generation networksand services will present telcos with new challenges. We have developed ourfraud-control products to ensure that future services are both resilient andprotected from fraudsters and thus provide all participants with theconfidence that fraud will not be an issue that keeps them away from theexciting potential of the next-generation world.”

Azure Solutions Inc.