'We have 60 percent share in African market'
                           -Nikhil Jain, COO & president, Elitecore Technologies

What is the focus of the company? 
We started in the Indian market in 2000 and presently we are very successful in IP based billing as we have a dominant market share. Our focus areas are billing, provisioning and mediation on IP based convergence.

In the dialup segment, both in the postpaid and prepaid space, the company has supplied billing solutions to both BSNL and MTNL. So, out of 5 mn connections, around 3 mn have been supplied by Elitecore. In the broadband space, the company is supplying billing solution for one mn broadband customers of MTNL. The company is also a hot contender for BSNL broadband project.  

The company is also in the core network and has supplied end-to-end centralized billing solution to BSNL for MLLN (managed leased line network). In this case, Elitecore has also provided SLA (service level agreement) based billing. We are also providing similar service to MTNL.

In FY 2007-08, Elitecore plans to activate around 5-6 mn broadband subscribers and this would be a big achievement for us.  

It seems the company has tied up with lot of vendors. Would you name some of them?
We have a tie-up with MBT and Tekelec where the focus is on international and large government projects. Apart from this, we are still doing business with Huawei. In the case of MBT, we are looking at international projects for one of the operators in Jakarta for data services and voucher management system for Hutch. For Tekelec, the company has signed for SS7 project where the focus is on inter-connect billing. This project is under implementation and will be up and running by the end of March. For Huawei, the company has executed projects for BSNL in MPLS, MLLN, and broadband access arena.

What about international projects?   
We have a good entry into African market where we have a market share of around 60%. We have made inroads into Kenya Data Network, Wanch, and Payroom.

Would you tell us more about JISP, convergent billing framework, which was launched recently?
JISP Prepaid is an integrated billing customer care and service provisioning solution for the new generation of prepaid services. It supports full range of prepaid implementations, including IN.

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