First commercial launch of BES in South Africa

On 22 Nov 2015, Huawei successfully upgraded Vodacom, South Africa's CCS phase 2 data service from OCS3.3 to OCS5.5, which is a basic component of Huawei's BES solution. This is the first commercial launch of a BES component in South Africa and within the sub-Saharan Africa region. The project has successfully migrated 4 million subscribers with no negative impact to subscriber experience, which the network has praised highly.

The BES is the next-generation Business Support System (BSS) designed to assist telecom carriers in their transformation to digital operations. It supports various business models such as B2C, B2B, B2B2C, C2C and enables easy partner aggregation, allowing operators to build an open Eco-system and provide a R.O.A.D.S experience to their customers.

Huawei first introduced the BES solution at AfricaCom on 16 November resulting in many attendees and operators showing interest and excitement about the capabilities of the solution. For more information, go to www.huawei.com.