Solusia, the premiere provider of professional wireless deployment services, and VQS, the innovator of online program management systems, today announced a joint venture to offer the wireless industry a best-in-class platform for program management for infrastructure deployments.

By fusing Solusia’s wireless turnkey site deployment and backhaul expertise with VQS’s program management technology, the joint venture creates a unique solution for streamlining the wireless deployment process and automating communications among project managers. The goal is to solve the pervasive business and operational pains among wireless service operators of inefficiencies and cost overruns during site rollout projects.

“With new spectrum and the expansion of 3G and 4G networks, wireless deployment is still an important piece of the network puzzle for wireless service operators,” explained Paul Haddad, CEO of Solusia. “This strategic coalition combines valuable resources and domain expertise; the resulting synergies will position us to better serve the growing needs of our wireless customers in all markets. We are excited to be partnering with an outstanding company such as VQS.”

Background

Wireless network deployment programs, with their diversity of suppliers and complexity of processes, conventionally have been some of the most challenging to manage for wireless carriers. Project cost overruns and deployment delays often plague site rollouts. The demands for timely information flows far exceed the practicality of emailing spreadsheet-based project trackers and trying to consolidate and interpret project data. Outdated, missing or incorrect information leads to missed milestones and poor decisions by project managers and incorrect business indicators for executives. Most wireless services vendors today depend on internally developed project management tools that are often inflexible, inefficient, and end up causing more problems to the carriers that they resolve.

Automated Program Management for Wireless

Solusia has been providing turnkey site deployment services and consulting, such as site acquisition, construction management, backhaul solutions, and technical integration for wireless service operators for over a decade. VQS specializes in information systems for program management, helping customers with the need to manage programs with diverse business processes and controls, and remains unrivaled in the telecommunications industry. Integrating the strengths of both companies, the new joint venture will provide a sophisticated program management solution created specifically to manage wireless deployment programs.

The new solution, ProgramScope™, automates information exchange, and real time tracking of any wireless deployment program. Through a secure online application, all parties involved can seamlessly share information in real time, enables project managers better control over projects and accurate measurement of execution.

ProgramScope is competing in the 2008 CTIA Emerging Technology Awards in the Network Infrastructure category.

“As the wireless industry focuses on increased efficiencies and reduction of network rollout costs, the marketplace demands a solution for deployment program management that is centralized and flexible,” said John Patton, Managing Partner of VQS. “With ProgramScope, wireless service operators will be able to deploy their networks more rapidly and more cost effectively.”

About VQS, LLC.

VQS has helped large, geographically dispersed companies bring order to the previously chaotic program management process for the past eleven years. VQS’s flagship product, VisionEPM, is an industry leading software system that offers unique tracking, forecasting, and managing functions not found in any other program management system.

About Solusia, Inc.

Solusia has been the trusted wireless deployment specialist for the mobile industry since 1998. Solusia’s SiteScope product portfolio covers all dimensions of a wireless site’s lifecycle: from RF engineering to site acquisitions, construction & modifications to technical services. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Solusia is focused exclusively on the wireless industry and through some of the strongest partnerships in the industry, delivers innovation, experience and execution for deploying the next generation mobile network. For more information, visit http://www.solusia.com.