Ascade, a Swedish OSS/BSS provider for the Interconnect Market, has announced that Batelco had awarded a mediation contract to Ascade, and implemented Ascade’s next generation mediation platform, Real Time Mediation.

“We are proud to be working with one of the leading service providers in the Middle East. Over the past two years Ascade has experienced a strong growth in the region and advanced implementation projects like at Batelco help us to gradually build up our resources in the Middle East” said Paul Ekberg, Regional
Director, Ascade Middle East.

“The implementation project started in November 2007 and was successfully delivered by May 2008; on time and on budget – Ascade has proven to be the efficient product and implementation partner that we were looking for,” conveyed Ebrahim Zainal, Networks & Technology General Manager at Batelco.