Training in Bern
Training in Nigeria

31 October 2005

Training in Bern

In September of this year, Colombia Móvil, provided by Comfone's Signalling, Clearing and Data Services since many years, has been served with a training program, specially customised to suit the exact requirements of Colombia Móvil.

During their 4 days training, Mario Castro and Jaime Crespo, both International Roaming Coordinators of Colombia Móvil, have been covered with all crucial aspects of international roaming business, such as Signalling, SMS Interworking, WeRoam, Data Clearing, GRX, MMS Interworking, Key2roam® and Financial Clearing.

The training was carried out by Manuel Lopez, Comfone's Senior Technical Consultant, as well as numerous other Comfone specialists who shared their expertise with Colombia Móvil's participants.

Helmut Bösiger (Vice President Sales Americas), Mario Castro from Colombia Móvil, Manuel Lopez from Comfone and Jaime Crespo from Colombia Móvil, in front of Comfone's headquarters in Bern

Overview of the participant's feedbacks,

"The training in Bern was very useful and helped to strengthening our knowledges of the roaming business. We appreciated in particular the personal contacts to our business partners from Comfone. Our coach, Manuel Lopez, was very flexible and could take into account our individual, specific wishes besides the planned course of the training."

Colombia Móvil

Colombia Móvil is a joint venture between two of the most successful multi-utility providers in Latin America: Empresas de Telecommunicaciones de Bogota and Empresas Publicas de Medellin, both billion-dollar corporations. Founded in Februrary 2003, Colombia Móvil is a fast growing company with more than 150 roaming partners all over the world.

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Training in Nigeria

In mid October, Comfone's Senior Technical Consultant Manuel Lopez and Peter Rippstein, Vice President International Sales, travelled to meet at MTN Nigeria, located in Lagos, to deliver a specially tailored 5-day training program.

MTN Nigeria is a highly valued Comfone customer since several years, using Comfone’s world wide SS7 signalling and GCS platform roaming services; more lately also Comfone’s SMS Interworking, while additional solutions are currently under review.

The specific focus of the Comfone global roaming training was to provide the selected audience with an update on all matters, directly and indirectly related to the crucial and wide field of international roaming management, new strategies, methods and future trends. During their 5 days stay with MTN, Manual Lopez and Peter Rippstein were impressed by the high motivations and ambitions of the seminar attendees. The training was productive and successful, not least due to the dedicated and active participation of MTN's staff.

Manuel Lopez from Comfone with some of the
training participants at the MTN Training & Learning Center in Apapa, Lagos

Overview of the participant's feedbacks,

"The training was very successful, enriched with lots of useful information and an overview for all different points in the international roaming business"

MTN Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa’s leading cellular telecommunications company. Since its launch in August 2001, MTN has steadily deployed its services across Nigeria. It now provides services in 223 cities and towns, more than 10,000 villages and communities and a growing number of highways across the country, spanning the 36 states of the Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Many of these villages and communities are being connected to the world of telecommuni-cations for the first time ever.

Peter Rippstein and Manuel Lopez in Lagos, during a short break

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