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IMS Forum Partners With OPASTCO to Address Challenges Faced by
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
The IMS Forum, an association dedicated to IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) application and service interoperability certification, announced
that it has partnered with the Organization for the Promotion and
Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO).
The IMS Forum and OPASTCO will collaborate 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."
The IMS Forum: www.imsforum.org.
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