About Orange Austria
The launch of Orange in Austria in September 2008 exceeded all expectations. This is now also proven by the company financial results for last year. The number of Orange customers has increased by 6.4 percent to 2.054 million customers from the end of 2007 to the end of 2008. In the valuable post-paid customer segment, the number of customers even increased to 10 percent. Orange Austria has a 20 per cent market share.
Results
According to Christian Dorner, Network Design Engineer at Orange Austria, the Intelligent Call Assistant solution increased inbound revenues by about 3% and call completion by over 2%.
Why did you choose Starhome?
“The benefit of call completion services for inbound roamers in general was interesting for us. During our evaluation process we decided on Starhome's Intelligent Call Assistant with Home Short Code and Global Direct Access in a revenue share model."
What was your experience with delivery and implementation?
“The implementation was complete within 2 weeks - including full usability testing. We finished the acceptance phase and went live one day before our Christmas network freeze. Because of the fast implementation we got the important revenue from the Christmas and New Year holidays.”
What is your opinion of Starhome's managed service?
“We still use the managed service mode from Starhome because we are satisfied with the service level. Nowadays it's important to reduce the complexity of service delivery and therefore we have a good experience by relying on Starhome to keep the services running and to perform all the necessary operational work (updates, etc.).”