Comfone participating in WiMax Forum Roaming Trial
 With a decade of experience in the roaming market, Comfone supports the setting of industry standards to simplify roaming processes. Recently, the WiMax Forum launched its first commercial global roaming trial involving Comfone and thirteen other ecosystem leaders.
According to Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum, "this trial represents an end-to-end test of roaming over live WiMAX networks and will provide a baseline for establishing roaming services and agreements for WiMAX worldwide. Roaming with interoperability is important in order to expand the availability of WiMAX services by enabling users to automatically access networks when traveling outside the geographical coverage area of their home network."
Complementing its roaming trial, the WiMax Forum has also published a WiMax Roaming White Paper which was initiated and co-authored by Comfone. Introducing various roaming models, the White Paper highlights the benefits of hubs to enable roaming between operators. Despite the current economic downturn, WiMax deployment is continuing to grow. However, WiMax operators do not have a lot of experience with roaming and it is therefore very important to ensure simplified roaming administration while providing maximum network coverage to operators.
John Dubois, global roaming director for the WiMax Forum, said in an interview with smartphone.biz-news that he believes the hub model will prevail for the interconnection of WiMax operators. With the participation of hubbing industry leaders like Comfone, the WiMax global roaming trial will help demonstrate to all WiMAX operators that they can easily provide roaming services to their customers. Mr. Dubois feels the majority of the operators will choose to connect via hubs which will extend their coverage with minimal process overhead. In the fast moving wireless telecommunications market, hubbing solutions are the future of mobile communications.
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Comfone’s Sales Director CALA, was a delegate at CANTO where he spoke about “Collaborating to survive a Global Economic Crisis”. 
From 13 to 15 June, Comfone’s roaming expert,
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was in Sudan holding a customer-specific training course for Vivacell Sudan. The training focussed on a wide range of topics including Roaming Management, Signalling for Roaming, GPRS Roaming, CAMEL Roaming, Data Clearing and Financial Clearing. After the training, participant Khalil Kassab of Vivacell remarked: „The training was very complete with the trainer providing additional sessions and information. I would definitely recommend further training with Comfone”.
According to Markus Bigler, Senior Product Manager Roaming Hubbing Services, “Comfone is a step ahead of the market demand for data roaming and has already been in discussions with its customer community to ensure that the integration of data roaming into Comfone’s hubs is in alignment with their network requirements. In this way, Comfone continues its pioneering role in developing new roaming solutions”.
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