V'fone Extends Oracle Deal

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Oracle today announced that Vodafone Spain, a fast-growing division of the Vodafone Group and a leading mobile operator in Spain, has extended and upgraded its deployment of Oracle Communications Service Activation to activate complex, next-generation subscriber services, enable Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) services and lower operational costs.

As the wireless market evolved and industry competition intensified, Vodafone Spain faced several key challenges including numerous manual processes that reduced service delivery timeframes and increased order fallout, high operating costs, and slow time to market for new services. With Oracle Communications Service Activation, Vodafone Spain has streamlined its operations onto a single convergent platform for rapidly enabling new services, including its MVNO service offering, recognizing significant cost savings through reduced customization and higher levels of product configuration as a result of an integrated service creation environment.

"Oracle Communications Service Activation has been instrumental to our success in delivering high-volume next-generation mobile subscriber services," said Lorenzo Merchan Arevalo, Architecture and Management of Systems, Vodafone Spain. "As the recognized market-leading service activation product, Oracle has enabled the automation of our provisioning process and reduced activation times from hours to seconds. This has enabled Vodafone Spain to launch new services quickly, provide a significant return on our investment while allowing us to maintain a low total cost of ownership."

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