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WHOLESALE UPDATES SAMENA TRENDS

Linxa’s Wholesale Management Platform will Optimize and Accelerate

Rebtel’s OTT Voice Business

Linxa has deployed its wholesale management platform for
Rebtel, an over the top (OTT) provider of voice services for
migrants and international nomads. This Turkish platform will
increase efficiency and performance as it delivers international
calling that is simple, reliable and cheap. Rebtel gains a simple,
comprehensive and powerful platform for managing, automating
and optimizing its international voice business. The wholesale
management platform from Linxa delivers optimum routing plans
reflecting costs, quality and commercial agreements as well as
real-time visibility into live traffic, performance and profitability
data. It allows Rebtel to increase automation in its back-office
processes, including rate sheet management. In addition to this,
it will also help with automatically optimizing routing tables to maximum quality and cost-efficiency for end users. The Linxa
minimize costs. With this agreement, Rebtel builds on Linxa’s wholesale management platform gives it new tools for optimizing
recent deployments with Deutsche Telekom global carrier and its voice business end-to-end and increasing value for users
digital wholesale solutions. Linxa’s platform improves efficiencies around the world.” Similarly, Johan Dahlqvist, the CTO at Rebtel
significantly and has scalability to serve the smaller players, right said “The team at Linxa are experts in Voice and really understand
up to the top ten international voice carriers. Speaking about this our needs. They have delivered the platform on time and on
was the vice president of global sales at Linxa who said “Rebtel is budget, which has had an immediate impact on our business.”
a unique OTT player with a very specific mission around delivering

Open Fiber Expands Wholesale Agreement with Optima Italia

Italian wholesale network operator Open as part of its own service offering, which under a series of government-subsidized
Fiber has enlarged an existing agreement provides electricity, gas, fiber broadband, contracts covering 7,635 communities
with multi-utility firm Optima Italia. In fixed telephony and mobile services on which currently have little or no internet
January this year Optima agreed to use a single bill. Optima has now extended access. Open Fiber is co-owned by the
Open Fiber’s gigabit-capable fiber-to- the arrangement to include the networks Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e
the-home (FTTH) networks in urban areas Open Fiber is deploying in rural areas Prestiti (CDP) and utility group Enel.

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