14 DAY TRIAL // Vodafone Italy has deployed a Lucent intelligent network solution for its HomeZone project and the carrier has launched "Vodafone Casa" commercial service. The "Vodafone Casa" service allows subscribers to use their mobile phones both as home phones and as a mobile device, enabling subscribers to pay the same attractive tariffs for mobile calls as for calls originated when at home.
"Vodafone Casa" is our way to respond swiftly to the competitive market through simple and innovative propositions to the customer. The new voice offer will allow Vodafone to play in the fixed operator playground while maintaining the convenience for our customers of a unique "handset"/number," said Didier Lebrat, chief technology officer at Vodafone Italy.
"The success of the HomeZone project with Vodafone Italy demonstrates our ability to address complex challenges for our service provider customers, and deliver the most innovative, multi-vendor solutions to help our customers better serve their subscribers," says Gianluca Baini, Vodafone account director at Lucent Technologies. "The most important criteria that Vodafone considered in implementing the innovative application was the ability to guarantee the high-performance and reliability requirements needed for the service. The collaboration between Lucent and Vodafone on this deployment is an example of the best practices in the industry."
The "Vodafone Casa" service, which replaces fixed telephone service, uses Lucent's SurePay Real Time Rating and Charging Suite, which enables the carrier to determine where a call is originated. A subscriber can define their HomeZone area and benefit from a different tariff when originating calls from their home area. Subscribers benefit from a single number, single service for all of their communication needs - whether at home or on the go.
Lucent's services organization conducted the network integration for this project, providing the deployment and network migration services to help Vodafone Italy introduce the new capabilities on its multi-vendor network and launch the commercial offer.