IMS Forum Partners With OPASTCO to Address Challenges Faced by Telecommunications Companies in Deploying New IP Converged Services

(Business News & Technology News, 15 Oct 2007)

The IMS Forum has partnered with the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) to help ensure that customers served by small and rural telecommunications companies have access to converged IP services over wireline, 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks.

The IMS Forum's goal is to create a venue for resolution among industry leaders to enable the expedient deployment of IMS-based VoIP, IPTV, Wireless Internet and Multimedia everywhere. OPASTCO's primary role in the IMS Forum will be to provide its technical working groups with data pertaining to small and rural telecommunications companies' challenges as they prepare to meet their customers' demands for converged services.

"The IMS Forum technical working groups welcome the partnership with OPASTCO," said Michael Khalilian, IMS Forum Chairman and President. "OPASTCO's participation in the development of next generation networks and IMS applications and services represents an important milestone for telecommunications providers and IMS industry."

"OPASTCO members are the best providers of broadband in their service areas. Many of these companies face economic challenges to deploy telecommunications services in their high-cost communities," OPASTCO President John Rose stated. "Developing solutions to rural digital convergence challenges is important to ensuring our members remain the best providers of broadband and broadband services in rural America. Our alliance with the IMS Forum will help expedite solutions for our members."

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