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Highdeal and NetCentrex Join Forces to Offer a Turnkey Residential IP Communications Solution to Service Providers

Posted on: Monday, 15 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003--

- This solution enables service providers to rapidly launch IP communications services for the residential market

Highdeal, a leading provider of dynamic transaction management software for telecommunications, content and online services, and NetCentrex(TM), a leading enabler of converged networks and next-generation applications, announce the launch of their turnkey IP communications solution for telecommunications service providers. The solution enables service providers to rapidly create and deploy new cost effective telephony and video communication services, and to bill them along with existing value added IP services, such as video-on-demand (VOD) on a single invoice.

The integrated platform, combines the NetCentrex MyCall(R) residential IP communications solution and Highdeal's Transactive(R) pricing, simulation and price calculation system. It offers operators cost-effective interconnection and system integration for enhanced, low cost IP services, which the solution allows them to rapidly rollout at competitive prices. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is further reduced with secure online access to customer account and invoice information by customer service representatives.

Service providers who want to increase ARPU through new "Triple Play" services can quickly integrate the joint MyCall / Highdeal Transactive platform into their existing systems. The solution ensures a rapid return on investment by allowing service providers to quickly price and launch new IP and video telephony in addition to existing Internet and VOD services through an intuitive and flexible interface.

The solution also offers a series of comprehensive pre-defined billing models, which are easily adapted to customer and service provider offerings.

Integrated Highdeal and NetCentrex solution

"Pricing and billing are the key to launching successfully targeted consumer offers for operators. Highdeal Transactive is a flexible solution that is easy to integrate, offering simple profile customization. Together with the advantages offered by the MyCall features, the solution's architecture will enable operators to market attractively priced and user-friendly offers for consumers," says Oliver Hersent, CEO of NetCentrex.

"The integrated Highdeal and NetCentrex solution offers operators the opportunity to rapidly market a range of IP services for residential users in optimum conditions," comments Eric Pillevesse, CEO of Highdeal. He adds, "The solution enables operators to easily modify and monitor the delivery and profitability of services, and produce an integrated invoice, guaranteeing simplicity, a primary requirement for non-professional users."

About NetCentrex (www.netcentrex.net)

NetCentrex(TM) develops next-generation networking products and network-based applications for 3 main markets: business communications, customer interactions and broadband residential communications. NetCentrex' solutions include voice portals, network-based contact centers, voice and video over IP virtual private networks, hosted telephony services, business trunking and residential telephony and video services. The solutions enable both service providers and enterprises to build converged networks and to deploy advanced, high value-added services. All solutions are built on the same core architecture which is composed of NetCentrex' application softswitch and media server. Founded in 1998, NetCentrex has over 150 customers worldwide, including Comunitel, Equant, France Telecom, FastWeb, MTU-Intel, Prosodie, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Deutschland, Tiscali, TransTelecom, Voicenet Communications and Xpedite. International partners include Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Sonus Networks. Leading European and US venture capital firms back the privately held company.

About Highdeal

Highdeal, spin-off of France Telecom is an independent software vendor specialized in advanced pricing, simulation, and rating solutions for telecommunications, Internet and entertainment companies. Marketing and IT directors use Highdeal Transactive to create dynamic and profitable business models with effective time to market and low operating and maintenance costs. Surpassing its competition with over 60 solution implementations worldwide, Highdeal is leading the market and gaining particular success in the mobile communications market where it is integrated into an MMSC platform from a major telecommunications manufacturer. Highdeal is based in Paris, with offices in New York, London and Munich as well as R&D labs in Normandy, France.

For more information, please visit www.highdeal.com.

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