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Wireless World 1 7 Thursday, September 8, 2016 CHOSEN PAYMENTS: YOUR MOST TRUSTED CREDIT CARD PROCESSOR Chosen Payments is a dedicated, knowledgeable and trusted credit card processor in the pre-paid telecom industry. With over 15 years' experi- ence as a telecom and merchant servic- es provider, Chosen Payments offers a proactive solution-based partnership approach that has made it a leader. The company has been the recipient of the First Data President's Club award four years in a row and is honored to be ranked among the top payment pro- cessing companies in the nation. The A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau is a testament to its White Glove Service. Chosen Payments processes more than a billion credit card transactions annually. Chosen Payments Chief Executive Officer Jeff Brodsly is one of just 15 members of the world's largest proces- sor advisory board, First Data. His partnership with telecom veterans Alex Dimitracopoulos and Derek Maxwell have proven to be instrumental in understanding the needs of the market. The collaboration of Jeff, Alex and Derek has allowed Chosen Payments to offer solutions only attainable from a strong understanding of the pre-paid telecom market. The company has single-handedly increased the profit of telecom compa- nies by double and triple digits annual- ly by providing increased fraud man- agement tools, proprietary processing software, payment gateway cost reduc- tions, the lowest processing rates, chargeback assistance and a consultative approach. In addition to saving its merchants over one million dollars annually (combined) in process- ing fees, the company has developed numerous partnerships adding highly profitable revenue streams by providing the tools to resell merchant services. Whether you are a highly motivated individual or a corporation looking to leverage an existing network of clients, the compa- ny will train and teach you the ins and outs of the industry to add a lifetime residual income stream. Headquartered in Moorpark, California, the company has more than 110 management and staff at offices located throughout the United States. Its approach has been and continues to be a focus on niche markets in which it is an expert. Pre-paid tele- com is one of its strongest. Dedicated to the suc- cess of both small and large pre-paid wireless carriers, wholesalers and retailers across the nation, Chosen Payments consis- tently receives "5 star" ratings from hundreds of merchants based upon its customer service expe- riences. No other pre-paid telecom vendor has focused so much corporate resources on helping the industry flourish. The company is dedicated to helping its merchant partners get their money faster, run their businesses more efficiently and feel good about their processing relationship. For more information, stop by booth #650 or email Alex Dimitracopoulos at alexanderdd@chosenpayments.com to request a meeting. MOBILE OPERATORS: DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA TO USE NFV/SDN IN YOUR NETWORK? MobileStack Inc. is launching the Mobile Virtualization Lab (MVL) in Silicon Valley. The main goal of this lab is to act as an incubator and prov- ing ground to adopt best ideas and practices for making NFV/SDN deployment a success in mobile net- works. Visit CTIA booth #5225 and discuss next steps. NFV/SDN is a big change for mobile networks, and failure is not an option. The new solution needs to meet CAPEX/OPEX cost saving objectives with proven deployment options. Mobilestack Inc. is looking for strategic relationships and sponsor- ships of mobile operators to work on development and testing projects to make NFV/SDN deployment a success in the Telco cloud. NFV/SDN is con- verting big-box tier-1 vendors into software suppliers for mobile opera- tors. This change requires the vendor's VNF-application running on top of NFVI-vendor and general purpose hardware chosen by the operator. This is a significant change in the vendor- operator relationship. Achieving carrier-grade service assurance of 99.999 percent reliability in NFV-cloud architecture is an unsolved problem. This requires incubation and a proving ground to adopt best ideas, and Mobilestack Inc. can help. In a multi-tenant architecture for scalable VNF apps, how does hard- ware failure affect service reliability and assurance? This issue is harder to resolve, as it involves a hardware ven- dor, an NFVI-vendor and a VNF-appli- cation vendor. How does a VNF appli- cation detect hardware failures and reorganize itself? What is the NFVI- vendor solution for service assurance? All of these decisions will affect over- all service assurance, which needs to be carrier-grade. Who is now responsi- ble for making service-assurance carri- er-grade? Is it the NFVI vendor or the VNF vendor? How does VNF-applica- tion scale up or down based on demand? Cloud computing architec- ture is different from carrier- grade big-box development. We need to think in terms of virtual- service chaining that can scale up and down without losing per- formance and reliability, even when hardware is replaced in a data center for maintenance reasons. To create a proven carrier-grade solution requires significant invest- ment in integration and testing efforts with a choice of open source hardware and open source NFVI technologies. Using more than 25 years of experi- ence in building carrier-grade solu- tions, Mobilestack Inc. can help. It can offer value using its carrier-grade product development experience in solving issues and removing deploy- ment barriers of the Telco NFV cloud. Additionally, Mobilestack Inc. offers white-label mobile application development services for customers. It designs, develops and tests mobile applications for its customers. With more than 25 years of experience in mobile technologies and carrier-class services, it can offer value in creating mobile applications with good user experience and worldwide scalable deployment options. At CTIA Mobility 2016, Mobilestack Inc. is launching two products, including its con- tacts application (as a mobile app) and its SD-WAN solution (as a network virtualization solution). This will help demon- strate its capabilities in the mobile app space and network virtualization space. The experience gained in developing products is used in offering better quality development services to its customers. The Mobilestack iContact app for IOS devices can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for free. Read about and download it at: itunes.apple.com/app/ id133774405. Mobilestack's iContact app integrates contacts from different sources (i.e. local contacts, email con- tacts and social contacts such as Facebook). In addition, the user is pro- vided an easy navigation to choose mul- tiple contacts for messaging and email to multiple people simultaneously. The Mobilestack SD-WAN prod- uct is designed to provide WAN con- nection on-demand. Additional WAN bandwidth can be added between two locations on-demand to eliminate WAN-connection choking points using VPN connection over the internet. To learn more, visit booth #5225. QUALITY THE FOUNDATION OF CELLPHONEPARTS.COM Based in Austin, Texas, CellPhone Parts.com is a premier provider of quali- ty cell phone parts. Hard work, persist- ence, honesty and a great team have allowed the business to grow since its inception in 2013. A new website was launched in Q2, 2016, and is its main point of distribution. It has recently added the purchase of broken LCDs to its services. Cell phone repair stores are the company's customers. CellPhoneParts focuses first on the customer service aspect of the business. With experience in ownership of several repair stores, the company understands the daily issues that customers face. A consistent quality that gives customers confidence and allows them to rely on the CellPhoneParts' products is the compa- ny's goal. Another quality focus is product reli- ability. Screens are tested at a retail loca- tion prior to being offered to the market. iPhone 6 and 6s LCD displays are the pre- mier products currently hot in the indus- try. Comparing products on a weekly basis from other suppliers gives the com- pany a heads-up on what is happening in the industry. By knowing what is happen- ing in the industry, CellPhoneParts is able to learn and improve on an ongoing basis. Being dynamic rather than static in this manner makes the company and its prod- uct even better. The combination of quality customer service and quality product gives CellPhoneParts a strong position in an industry that has had a challenging year. To combat the challenges, CellPhoneParts uses suppliers in China that work solely for CellPhoneParts. This allows the company to have a consistent quality in its products while avoiding price gouging by standard suppliers. The goal for the future is to become a leader in the industry by taking CellPhoneParts to the next tier. The greatest challenge in the indus- try is the variability in terms of quality in the parts offered in the market. By using a policy of transparency, CellPhoneParts believes it is possible to educate cus- tomers, which then gives customers the knowledge to avoid technical problems and save money. If a customer has a com- plaint, troubleshooting the product to determine if a problem can be recre- ated, studied and ulti- mately resolved is CellPhoneParts' policy. Feedback from customers is vital and helps increase quality in product and process. When customers are able to pur- chase quality parts for their customers it reduces repetitive repairs and saves money for all. The company takes pride in its same day delivery, when a product is ordered before 5:00 pm CST. It offers free ship- ping on orders over $250 and free overnight shipping on orders over $1,500. For more information, call 800.495.6904, visit cellphoneparts.com or stop by booth #561.