Contract Win
Intec Telecom Systems PLC
26 September 2007
Intec Telecom Systems PLC
High-growth Irish mobile operator Meteor selects Intec Convergent Billing and
Intec Customer Management in multi-million pound deal
London, 26 September 2007 - Intec, a global provider of business and operations
support systems (BSS/OSS), announced today a multi-million dollar deal with
Ireland-based Meteor Mobile Communications for Intec Convergent Billing and
Intec Customer Management. The combination of these two products will allow
Meteor to create a fully integrated view of customer information for both
pre-paid and post-paid customers. The Irish market, traditionally dominated by
pre-paid customers, is turning towards more post-paid agreements as services and
tariffs become more innovative to support increasingly sophisticated customer
demands and a fiercely competitive landscape. Meteor, which has been
increasingly successful in building its post-paid business, wanted to update its
legacy platform to deal with growing customer volumes and both pre-paid and
post-paid customers.
"Intec Convergent Billing and Intec Customer Management gave us exactly what we
needed for the next phase of our growth," said Meteor's IT Director Tony
Stewart-Lord. "Running separate systems for different types of customers isn't
efficient or customer friendly, and we pride ourselves on being both of those
things. Having a truly convergent system, with fully integrated customer
management, allows us to have a much more complete and consistent view of
customer relationships and billing information."
Meteor is an innovative provider of high quality GSM services in Ireland. The
company, whose headquarters is in Dublin, operates in the Republic of Ireland
and is a wholly owned subsidiary of eircom Group PLC. Meteor has enjoyed
phenomenal growth in recent years and recorded over 875,000 customers and over
18% market share in June 2007.
Gary Burch, Intec's VP of EMEA, said "Meteor is a great example of the kind of
go-ahead mobile operator that is now turning to Intec for convergent billing and
customer management. Our fully integrated solution means that they can improve
the efficiency of their billing processes, deliver an improved customer
experience, and have the kind of open-ended scalability and performance that
only a tier 1 billing solution can bring."
Intec Convergent Billing and Intec Customer Management are Intec's market
leading billing and customer management solutions, relied upon by many of the
largest and most innovative telecommunications service providers worldwide.
Their efficient, integrated, single-database architecture allows service
providers to lower their operating cost by supporting all rating, balance
management, charging and billing tasks on a single platform, serving pre-paid,
post-paid and multi-pay customers for all classes of product.
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For further information, please contact:
Intec Telecom Systems PLC www.intecbilling.com
Andrew Rodaway, Director of Marketing and Communications +44 (0)1483 745 800
andrew.rodaway@intecbilling.com +44 7768 808082
College Hill Associates www.collegehill.com
Sara Musgrave +44 (0)20 457 2020
Ben Way
About Meteor
Established in 2001 having been awarded Ireland's 3rd mobile licence. Meteor
Mobile Communications is one of Ireland's leading mobile communications
providers, with over 18% percent share of the Irish cellular market and 875,000
customers (June 2007). Now with 38 stores throughout the country Meteor is
Ireland's fastest growing operator. For further information visit www.meteor.ie
About Intec
Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world's top 100 telecoms carriers and
is one of the world's fastest growing major BSS/OSS (business and operations
support systems) vendors. Intec's 400 customers include AT&T, Cable & Wireless,
The Carphone Warehouse (UK), China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland),
France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin
Mobile, Vivo and Verizon. Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom
have been with Intec since its inception, to provide the highest standards of
performance, flexibility and robustness to help carriers service their customers
effectively and profitably. Intec's comprehensive and expanding range of
products, solutions and services includes:
• Retail billing and customer management
• Multi-service mediation and activation
• Inter-carrier billing settlements including US CABS and ITU-based
settlement
• End-to-end content partner management
• Optimised wholesale routing and trading
• Real-time pre/post-paid mediation and charging
• Pre-integrated solutions for wholesale, wireless and core IMS charging
functions
Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has
over 1,700 staff and 31 offices in 25 countries. For more information, visit the
Intec website at www.intecbilling.com.
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