Halys

News

November 2008

Roaming Hub Hosted for a group of operators in Africa, using the "Virtual Roaming Hub" principle.

The service includes inbound visitors,outbound visitors multi-IMSI in post-paid and pre-paid modes (complete CAMEL functioning).

August 2008

Complete VAS platform in Sudan : VMS, SMSC, anti-tromboning, SMS eXchange, USSD and welcome SMS.

"Network of the World" (Vivacell) is a new mobile operator in Sudan. Their complete VAS platform system has been installed in Juba.

July 2006

Complete VAS platform in Afghanistan : VMS, SMSC, Welcome SMS.

The 3rd licensed operator has launched a GSM service with an Halys platform commissioned in less than 2 weeks in Kaboul.

May 2006

Welcome SMS in Sierra Leone.

Comium is the first operator in Sierra Leone to deploy Welcome SMS (both inbound visitors and outbound subscribers). A full duplication of the VMS/SMSC has also been added which covers also capacity extension needs.

April 2006

USSD Platform in Armenia:

The Halys USSD (software using the SMSC as platform) was installed for an Armenian operator. The application runs on an external system using the SMPP Halys extension. One of the main applications is Wap browser setting self provisioning. The customer uses a menu to select the right profile corresponding to his handset. The application was developed by the operator's own IT engineers.

March 2006

VMS-SMSC up in 3 days in Guinea Conakry:

The combined VMS-SMSC was set up in 3 days, including training, in an entirely-new GSM in Conakry. The international SMS service was also running within days of the installation, with Halys providing remote support.

February 2006

OTA provisioning:

The OTA provisioning system was delivered with the optimised download procedure. Very large profiles (16 SMS) are delivered in less than 30 seconds using the in-built optimised SMS-MT procedure.

January 2006

New patent for Halys:

a location system based on “Timing Advance” measured by a mobile-embedded application. Measurements are transmitted to a geolocation centre where they serve to work out the user’s position. This can then be used, for example, to automatically transmit platform numbers as the user approaches a train station.

September 2005

Welcome SMS for an Armenian operator:

sends a welcome message to subscribers and tourists, in their own language, when they arrive in a foreign country.

June 2005

SORTA patent:

a system designed to optimise roaming costs. It makes it possible to cut out call-forwarding costs to a roamer’s voice mailbox.

March 2005

Integrated SMSC/VMS in Armenia:

redundant SMSC/VMS with full handling of prepaid customers' payment.

January 2005

Anti-spamming SMS and SMS-MO:

filtering based on origin and content of all inbound SMS-MT to protect subscribers, from SMS spamming (advertising, profane language). Content filtering uses keywords and “Bayesian filtering”. SMS-MO anti-spoofing filtering avoids SMS-MO fraudulent use of SMSC.

December 2004

Integrated SMSC/VMS in Sierra Leone:

a pre-configured factory-integrated VMS/SMSC has allowed a very quick cutover, including full training, for a GSM network launch.