Melon Digital Selects Amdocs to Launch Global MVNE Platform and Innovative African MVNO
Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) has partnered with Melon Digital, a new mobile virtual network enabler based in South Africa, to launch Melon Mobile. This collaboration utilizes Amdocs' Digital Brands Suite as a Service powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide customer care and monetization capabilities. Set to launch commercially next month, Melon Mobile aims to innovate the South African telecom market with a fully digital customer experience. Amdocs' platform supports scalability from initial users to potentially millions, enhancing operational agility for Melon Digital.
- Partnership with Melon Digital to enhance telecom services in South Africa.
- Utilization of Amdocs' Digital Brands Suite to facilitate quick market entry and scalability.
- AWS-powered cloud solution provides flexibility and agility for Melon Mobile.
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Amdocs' SaaS-based Digital Brands Suite as a Service, powered by AWS, will allow mobile virtual network enabler Melon Digital to scale and provide next-generation experiences to customers around the world, starting in South Africa with the launch of mobile virtual network operator Melon Mobile
JERSEY CITY, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / February 27, 2023 / Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced that Melon Digital, a new digitally-led mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) based in South Africa, has selected Amdocs' Digital Brands Suite as a Service to provide customer care and monetization capabilities in a SaaS-based solution powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Melon Digital is a wholly new, digital-first brand providing tailored support for businesses and brands looking to innovate with digital mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services, simplifying the process by offering end-to-end services including project management, UI/UX, technology support and reward/loyalty programs through an innovative MVNE platform.
Next month will see the commercial launch of Melon Mobile by Melon Digital. Melon Mobile is a digital-first mobile provider that aims to disrupt the South African market by offering its customers maximum flexibility and control as part of a personalized user journey.
Amdocs' Digital Brands Suite as a Service, now available in AWS Marketplace, will allow Melon Digital to produce and monetize fully digital customer experiences while seamlessly scaling up from the first subscribers to potentially millions.
"Our vision is to build Africa's first truly digital MVNE, to disrupt the South African market and enable the launch of innovative new operators around the world. We are excited to work with Amdocs to create a complete digital experience for consumers in South Africa and the customers of new MVNOs wherever they might be," said Calvin Collett, Founder and CEO at Melon Digital. "It's incredibly exciting to be launching a new digital MVNO from scratch in just six months. Amdocs has been the perfect partner for the Melon Digital journey, demonstrating flexibility and a willingness to go above and beyond while moving fast to address our needs."
"We're pleased to be playing such a pivotal role in Melon Digital by providing a cloud-based, SaaS platform that enables the platform to scale their disruptive digital brand in an agile, innovative fashion," said Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology and Head of Strategy at Amdocs. "New brands have the ability to challenge the status quo, which is one of the reasons Melon Digital's arrival is so exciting."
"One of the benefits of the cloud is the ability to provide telco scale to industry innovators," said Tammy Whyman, head of telco partnerships at AWS. "Melon Digital's digital-first approach, combined with Amdocs Digital Brand Suite as a Service on AWS Marketplace, will give Melon Digital greater agility to create and deliver a new value proposition to the South African consumer, and expedite time-to-profit for its Melon Mobile MVNO. This collaboration is a great example of how AWS and its large community of partners work together to accelerate innovation across the industry."
Amdocs' Digital Brands suite is designed to accelerate time to market for MVNOs and other digital-first operators. Delivered through a cloud-native serverless architecture and pay-as-you-grow business model to ensure maximum flexibility and scalability, it offers a pre-built library of digital customer journeys and business processes, low-code/no-code configuration templates and a rich set of TM Forum-certified Open APIs for managing the entire customer lifecycle.
Amdocs, Melon Digital and AWS will be holding a Melon Digital launch event at the Amdocs booth (Hall 3, Stand 3G10) at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona on Monday 27 February, from 4.00pm CET.
Amdocs at MWC
- The Amdocs booth is situated in Hall 3, stand 3G10, where we will be showcasing a wide range of innovative, immersive demos and experiences related to 5G, augmented reality, virtual reality, the cloud and more
- Amdocs will also showcase industry vertical use cases from the 5G Experience Lab, including a live manufacturing demo with Intel
- Niall Norton, Amdocs General Manager & Amdocs Networks Division President, will be taking part in the MWC conference session That's My Slice! on Monday, February 27
- Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology and Head of Strategy at Amdocs, will join T-Mobile's Meg Knauth for a session on Enabling The Next Phase Of The Un-Carrier: The T-Mobile & Amdocs Story in the Broadcast Studio on Wednesday, March 1
- There will be an Amdocs Digital Brands Suite as a Service demo at the AWS Village
- Amdocs is the podcast sponsor of MWC, hosting The Great Indoors MWC23 Barcelona Special Edition and recording live from the event
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About Amdocs
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers' innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our 31,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers' migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of
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Amdocs Media Contacts
Michael Youds
Amdocs Public Relations
Tel: +44 7855 827 038
Email: michael.youds@amdocs.com
Holly Abbott
Babel PR for Amdocs
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Email: amdocs@babelpr.com / holly.abbott@babelpr.com
Melon Digital Media Contact
Leanne Bekker
Melon Digital PR Manager
Email: leanne@melonmobile.co.za
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