Aradial recently announced that AfriConnect Zambia has implemented the Aradial AAA and Policy Control solution to offer Wimax and future LTE (News - Alert) services to the city of Lusaka and a number of other key cities in Zambia. Aradial is one of the leading providers of AAA, billing, customer management, and policy control solutions for IP service providers.

In a press release, Ori Etkovitz, Aradial's CEO said, "We are very happy with this project. The Wimax and internet services product supports bandwidth management, real-time network policy control and enforcement, all driven by our powerful AAA Enforcer. This breadth of functionality will further enable the operator to implement volume, time, and expiration enforcement and to extend its current offering to current and future subscribers. As well there is a clear path to upgrading the operator to Aradial Convergent Billing."

The initial phase of this project will start with several thousand subscriber terminals being installed in Lusaka, after which more towns and cities will receive coverage.

Mark Bennett, MD of AfriConnect said, "As a leading communications provider, we are committed to providing our customers with reliable and affordable services. We are rolling out a 4G network in order to take advantage of the new lower-cost international fiber bandwidth coming into the country and considerably increase the number of internet users in the country. The new solution from Aradial will enable us to exercise full control over the usage of our WiMAX (News - Alert) and LTE very cost effectively, while improving our subscribers' service experience."

AfriConnect will leverage Aradial's AAA and Policy Control for Wimax and internet services to expand its coverage throughout the region. The solution will integrate with Airspan (News - Alert) 4G Wimax with other Wimax vendor's gateways to help manage the access from base stations and CPE access and assist in billing subscribers.

Zambia's largest ISP, AfricConnect offers a number of data solutions to the corporate, SME, and residential markets. The company was setup in Zambia in 2005 and became a part of the Vodacom (News - Alert) group in 2010.