Homes and small-to-medium businesses share Oi’s vast copper xDSL network and have Wi-Fi-capable routers. Oi is using the excess capacity in those residential and business locations by adding an additional SSID for their public Wi-Fi service. In this way Oi creates a huge Wi-Fi footprint and can automatically – through the SIM authentication in the Aptilo Service Management Platform – offload mobile data traffic to their xDSL pipeline from anywhere in the country.

The Aptilo service provider Wi-Fi solution, which delivers Wi-Fi services to outdoor and indoor locations through multiple Access Point (AP) vendors, consolidates the functionality in Oi’s two existing Wi-Fi service management systems. Aptilo’s solution will also be able to support Oi’s future requirements and a rapid Wi-Fi expansion.

“Aptilo Service Management Platform supports all the business models that were being used under the two existing systems we had, and positions us well for future requirements,” said Abel Camargo, Business Development Director, Oi. “What made our choice easy when consolidating all our Wi-Fi services into one platform was Aptilo’s ability to fit into our existing back-end architecture and their support for multiple Wi-Fi AP vendors.”

Aptilo’s wireless service management platform was easily integrated into Oi’s mobile and fixed broadband core, with SIM authentication and policy lookups conducted using SOAP/XML. Options for EAP/SIM authentication, MAC address and WISPr authentication all for the same user are enabled; the network intelligently selects the best authentication method available.

Aptilo’s service provider Wi-Fi platform is radio vendor-agnostic, supporting all major Wi-Fi vendors and a multitude of features for business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) services. It utilizes multiple Wi-Fi gateways including the Aptilo Access Controller, third-party gateways and built-in gateways present in home/SMB routers. This enables Oi to select the most cost-effective and best Wi-Fi access point vendor for any given time and situation. External portal integration is done via SOAP.

“We are proud to have been chosen as the strategic platform for Oi’s aggressive Wi-Fi services expansion,” said Paul Mikkelsen, COO, Aptilo Networks. “Fueling Aptilo’s success in the service provider Wi-Fi market is our support for all kinds of B2C and B2B business models and our flexibility to serve as the glue between any existing back-end systems and any Wi-Fi radio vendors.”

For more information about Aptilo’s service provider Wi-Fi solution please visit:
http://www.aptilo.com/carrier-class-wi-fi/service-provider-wifi-hotspot20

About Oi
Oi is a pioneer company in the provision of bundled services in Brazil. A Oi offers local and long-distance voice transmission, mobile telephony, broadband and pay TV.  In March 2013, the company had 74.7 million revenue generating units (RGUs). This total includes 46.5 million in personal mobile segment, 18.5  million in residential segment and 9 million in business/corporate segment.

For the fifth consecutive year, Oi is part of the ISE – Corporate Sustainability Index portfolio of the BM&F BOVESPA, reflecting the company’s commitment to social responsibility and corporate sustainability. For the third consecutive year, Oi is also part of the IC02 — Carbon Efficiency Index — of the BM&F Bovespa.

About Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data services for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading. Aptilo’s carrier-class solutions boast pre-integrated authentication, policy control and charging functions to maximize functionality and fast-track deployments while minimizing impact on existing systems. Aptilo’s solutions are currently in operation in more than 60 countries.  For more information, please visit www.aptilo.com

For further information please contact:
Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager
Aptilo Networks AB
c/o Call Communications
P: +1-917-414-9262
hillary.call@aptilo.com

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The Aptilo Charging Module allows 3 Scandinavia to minimize the number of Call Detail Records (CDRs) which are necessary to handle for billing each user session. The Aptilo Charging Module aggregates CDRs that are generated between the policy enforcement nodes and 3 Scandinavia’s mediation system. The aggregated CDRs are generated at a rate based on the configured policy and the status of each session, e.g. roaming or non-roaming. The policy that controls the CDR generation rate can be based on any parameter that is available, e.g. data from the policy enforcement nodes, customer profile, network session, traffic session and/or user session.

In addition, the Aptilo Policy & Charging Server features CDR re-generation capabilities if CDR events are lost, minimizing revenue leakage for the provided service.

The tight integration between the policy and charging functions makes real-time charging more effective with higher granularity and quicker policy decisions for all services.

In the case of 3 Scandinavia, the Aptilo Charging Module handles a temporary quota received from the external online charging system and thereby alleviates the need for the costly high-frequency interaction between the policy enforcement nodes and the online charging system. The Aptilo Charging Module can also be configured to act as an online charging system with locally provisioned quota.

“During our five years of cooperation, Aptilo has shown that their innovative solutions and mindset adapt to the operator instead of the other way around,” said Jörgen Askeroth, CTO, 3 Scandinavia. “The Aptilo Policy & Charging Server simplifies our customer charging process, and gives us the flexibility to rapidly respond to any future customer demands.”

For more information about Aptilo’s 3GPP Policy & Charging solution:
http://www.aptilo.com/3gpp-policy-control-pcrf

About Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data services for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading. Aptilo’s carrier-class solutions boast pre-integrated authentication, policy control and charging functions to maximize functionality and fast-track deployments while minimizing impact on existing systems. Aptilo’s solutions are currently in operation in more than 60 countries. For more information, please visit www.aptilo.com

For more information please contact:
Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager
Aptilo Networks AB
c/o Call Communications
P: +1 917-414-9262
hillary.call@aptilo.com

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The Aptilo Service Management Platform™ will be seamlessly integrated with Swisscom’s existing systems, giving Swisscom the flexibility to leverage new technologies and deploy new services easily. With Aptilo’s service provider Wi-Fi solution, Swisscom will have built-in flexibility to adapt to future requirements.

“We are proud to have been selected by Swisscom, an innovator in service provider Wi-Fi and a great example for the whole industry,” said Torbjorn Ward, CEO, Aptilo Networks. “We thrive in working with forward-thinking customers such as Swisscom; it helps us maintain our cutting edge.”

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Demand among mobile operators for Wi-Fi, as a complement to their 3G/4G mobile networks, has brought huge success to Aptilo. In 2012 Aptilo’s revenue grew 40% in the mobile operator segment, maintaining profits even while the company increased staff by 40%. As a result, the Swedish company is well positioned with a leading solution in the center of this rapidly growing market.

“We predicted early on that mobile operators would start building Wi-Fi capacity on a larger scale. We’ve grown quickly in 2012 both in terms of revenue and personnel, all the while maintaining profits,” said Torbjorn Ward, CEO, Aptilo Networks. “Customers appreciate the quality of Aptilo’s software and our innovative solutions, all of which are developed in Sweden, and our pipeline is stronger than ever. The service provider Wi-Fi market is still in its infancy and we are well poised to meet the rapidly growing demand from mobile operators worldwide.”

With Aptilo’s service provider Wi-Fi solution, and the award-winning Wi-Fi offloading solution with SIM Authentication, the user is securely and automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network through the credentials residing on the mobile phone’s SIM card. This is a technology used for 3G/4G mobile networks and is now being fully deployed with Wi-Fi. Aptilo’s solutions have become very popular among mobile operators since traffic is secured with strong encryption and users are automatically logged-in to the Wi-Fi network when they are in range.

Mobile operators achieve significant cost-savings by moving traffic from the often-congested mobile networks to Wi-Fi networks. Not only do they create a better experience for their customers, but also they increase network capacity quickly, via a network that’s less costly to build and operate.

Aptilo reported record revenue for 2012 of 115.2 million SEK (17.7 million USD) with EBITDA of 19.5 million SEK (3.0 million USD).

About Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data services for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading. Aptilo’s carrier-class solutions boast pre-integrated authentication, policy control and charging functions to maximize functionality and fast-track deployments while minimizing impact on existing systems. Aptilo’s solutions are currently in operation in more than 60 countries. For more information, please visit www.aptilo.com

Media Contacts:

Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager
Aptilo Networks AB
c/o Call Communications
P: +1 917-414-9262
hillary.call@aptilo.com

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Med Aptilos lösning kopplas användarna upp automatiskt och säkert mot Wi-Fi nätverket via de uppgifter som finns på mobiltelefonens SIM kort. Detta är en teknik som används för mobilnätens datatjänster och som nu också har börjat användas fullt ut för Wi-Fi. Att trafiken är säkrad genom kraftig kryptering och att användaren automatiskt loggas in så fort Wi-Fi nätverket är inom räckhåll har gjort Aptilos lösning mycket populär bland mobiloperatörer världen över. De kan spara stora pengar genom att automatiskt flytta över användare från de ofta överbelastade mobilnäten till Wi-Fi nätverk som är billigare att driva.

Mobiloperatörernas starka intresse för Wi-Fi som en kompletterande teknik till deras mobilnät har inneburit stor framgång för Aptilo Networks som står mitt i denna kraftigt växande marknad med en ledande lösning.

-Vi förutsåg tidigt utvecklingen att mobiloperatörer skulle börja bygga Wi-Fi kapacitet på allvar, det har varit en utmaning att klara av att växa så kraftigt under 2012 både i omsättning och antalet anställda, men vi har klarat det med bibehållen lönsamhet och kvalitet. Våra kunder uppskattar kvaliteten i vår svenskutvecklade mjukvara, vi är stolta över att vi som svenskt företag har lyckats ta oss till en världsledande position på en sådan het och konkurrensutsatt marknad, säger Torbjörn Wård, VD på Aptilo Networks.

Aptilo har just avslutat sina räkenskaper för 2012 med en rekordomsättning på 115,2 miljoner kronor och ett rörelseresultat före avskrivningar på 19,5 miljoner kronor (EBITDA). En starkt bidragande orsak till det goda resultatet har varit tillväxten i mobiloperatörssegmentet där Aptilo ökat omsättningen med 40%. Under 2012 har Aptilo också ökat antal anställda med 40% för att kunna ta emot den kraftigt ökande efterfrågan på företagets lösningar.

Om Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks är en ledande aktör inom system för hantering av mobila bredbandstjänster över stora distribuerade Wi-Fi, WiMAX och 3G/LTE-nätverk samt avlastning av 3G trafik till Wi-Fi. Aptilos lösningar för leverantörer av trådlösa tjänster omfattar ett förintegrerat system för att kontrollera tillgång till Internet, styra användarupplevelsen och ta betalt. Detta ger en optimerad funktionalitet som kan installeras snabbt med en minimal påverkan på befintliga system. Aptilos lösningar är i drift i mer än 60 länder. Aptilo Networks har huvudkontor i Stockholm och regionala huvudkontor i Dallas, USA, samt i Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. För ytterligare information, se www.aptilo.com.

För mer information kontakta:
Johan Terve, Marknadschef Aptilo Networks AB
Tel: 08-5089 8902, 070-202 53 00
E-post: johan.terve@aptilo.com

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The Aptilo deployment is eircom’s first commercial use of PayPal.

While the service is free for eircom Broadband, Meteor and eMobile customers, non-eircom customers can now use PayPal in addition to credit cards to purchase access to the eircom WiFiHub service. For non-eircom and eircom landline customers the service is free for the first 10 minutes and then there is a flat rate charge of €1.00 which will allow users to access the service up until midnight that day. eircom’s WiFiHub is available in more than 1,900 hotspots across Ireland including at Irish Rail and DART stations, in bars, restaurants, coffee shops, petrol stations and other public venues. The network handles approximately one million WiFi sessions/month.

The Aptilo carrier-class WiFi service management solution seamlessly integrated PayPal into eircom’s WiFiHub network. With the Aptilo solution, users can purchase access to eircom’s WiFiHub service quickly and easily.

“We’re making it a simple process for our customers and customers of other services to use the eircom WiFiHub service. Users know and trust PayPal, and it’s easy to use,” said John Bermingham, Senior Product Manager – Mobile Data and WiFi, eircom. “We are delighted to put this into place with Aptilo. The Aptilo team invented custom solutions to allow this to work. We’re thrilled with the end result.”

“Aptilo has helped eircom make login as easy as possible. Adding PayPal as another payment method is a natural extension of these efforts to create a great user experience,” said Anders Emilsson, Vice President Sales EMEA, Aptilo Networks. “The seamless integration makes it that much simpler for users to enjoy the benefits of eircom WiFiHub access.”

About Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data services for WiFi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading. Aptilo’s carrier-class solutions boast pre-integrated authentication, policy control and charging functions to maximize functionality and fast-track deployments while minimizing impact on existing systems. Aptilo’s solutions are currently in operation in more than 60 countries. For more information, please visit www.aptilo.com

About eircom
eircom is the principal provider of fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services in Ireland with approximately 2 million customers. eircom has the most extensive telecommunications network in Ireland both in terms of capacity and geographic reach. The Group provides a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data and broadband services to the residential, small business, enterprise and government markets. Our mobile division operates under the Meteor and eMobile brands. In addition, eircom Wholesale is the largest wholesale operator in Ireland, providing products and services to more than 28 wholesale customers, across a range of regulated and unregulated markets.

eircom’s shareholders comprise of more than 200 investors who converted their senior debt holdings to equity upon the successful completion of examinership on 11 June 2012.

Media Contacts:
Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager
Aptilo Networks AB
c/o Call Communications
P: +1 917-414-9262
hillary.call@aptilo.com

Clare O’Riordan, Press Officer
eircom
P: (01) 600 6360 / (085) 174 6360
coriordan@eircom.ie

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