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Gold Line, Canada's Largest Calling Card Provider, Deploys Pactolus SIPware Pre-Paid Calling Card Application

Posted on: Thursday, 8 June 2006, 12:00 CDT

Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, developers of the most comprehensive IP voice service suite and service delivery environment for telecom service providers, today announced its selection and deployment by Gold Line Telemanagement, Canada's leading provider of calling card services with more than half of the country's $350-million pre-paid long-distance business.

Gold Line selected Pactolus as its exclusive provider of calling card applications, and is expanding its dominant prepaid, affinity and promotional calling card market penetration with innovative services based on Pactolus' award-winning SIPware Calling Card application and RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform. Gold Line carefully evaluated alternative service application approaches before replacing its TDM-based services platform, selecting the Pactolus solution both for its scale and feature extensibility and adaptability using the RapidFLEX Service Creation Environment.

"We first achieved market leadership by providing reliable, high-quality services that allow subscribers to affordably keep in touch with friends and relatives. Migration to IP and IMS readiness are the logical next step in sustaining our growth and leadership. Preserving legacy service functionality is, of course, a key goal," notes Mr. Vivian Clark, Chief Technology Officer, Gold Line. "Pactolus is the clear VoIP services vendor of choice, and a strategic partner. Its advanced service extensibility and customizability uniquely met our requirements, and provides a future-proof foundation for new and successive generations of service products and multi-national expansion."

In the ten years since its founding, Gold Line has become the established leader in Canadian calling card services. Today, over 100 million minutes of long distance calls are placed monthly, and its loyal customer continues to grow at record rates.

CEO Paul Blondin notes: "Our direct and strategic relationship with Gold Line is an honor, and reflects our mutual commitment to meeting the evolving customer requirements of the global prepaid market". Blondin further noted, "Our selection and ongoing deployment by Gold Line establishes Pactolus as the engine driving over 80% of the Canadian market's prepaid traffic, and a front runner in global IP telecom services expansion."

About Group of Gold Line

Group of Gold Line (http://www.goldlinegroup.com) is Canada's largest and most reputable pre-paid service provider serving over 70% of the Canadian pre-paid market through its 100,000 points of sale across North America. Gold Line maintains a consistent combination of high quality, cost effective, user-friendly and innovative communications products and services, with outstanding Customer Service to respond to fast changing consumers' demands.

Established in 1993, Gold Line presently employs over 300 individuals, operates multiple branch offices and continues to grow its strong presence in many countries world-wide. Gold Line Group is comprised of four divisions that cooperatively compliment each other and is the only company of its kind in North America that retains complete ownership and control of all aspects of its business:

Gold Line Telemanagement Inc.

-- North America's largest prepaid long distance service provider

-- Terminates over 175 million long distance minutes/minutes worldwide

-- Full sales and marketing divisions including over 300 employees and a worldwide network value added resellers

-- Over 100 Gold Line and private label brands are distributed to over 100,000 points of sale worldwide

Gold Line plans to expand to offer the following services in the near future:

-- Travel Cellular Phone

-- North American Toll free service for residential, business & cellular

-- PIN Bank Point of sale activation & debit/credit services

-- Prepaid Visa & Master Card services

-- Prepaid Debit Card / Gift Card

About Pactolus

Pactolus Communications Software Corporation is the leading developer of SIP-based IP voice services, installed in 50+ carrier networks supporting 2 billion minutes of use per month. Its core innovations such as advanced call control capabilities for SIP-based networks are deployed by leading carriers, are licensed and integrated by other leading VoIP platform OEMs, and are unmatched in the industry. Pactolus' customizable SIPware(TM) services portfolio includes broadband IP telephony, prepaid and post paid calling card, reservation-less and event audio conferencing, voice messaging and service-integrated operator assistance. Pactolus' RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform and Service Creation Environment (SCE) combine to create a comprehensive, open, and flexible software framework (www.pactolus.com)

Source: Business Wire

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