Reliance Communication Expands Relationship with Intec to Transform Its OSS/BSS for Next Generation Readiness

LONDON & KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next generation networks, announced today that Reliance Communications, India’s leading integrated telecommunication company with one of India’s largest subscriber base of over 55 million customers, has successfully upgraded its current Intec Convergent Billing (Singl.eView) installation to the latest version (6.0) and signed contracts for Intec’s Content Partner Management solution. These additional capabilities are key enablers for the delivery of complex, content-oriented next-generation services.

“We have expanded our relationship with Intec because the flexibility, scalability and performance of Intec’s billing technology has allowed Reliance Communication to grow at very high rates and gain business advantage within the highly competitive and fast-developing Indian market,” said Mr. Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications. “This additional deployment will help us to further enhance our competitiveness in the telecommunications market, to bill and manage partner relationships more efficiently, and launch new next generation content services like DTH, IPTV and other value-added services.”

The latest version of Intec’s Convergent Billing solution (v6.0) provides operators with extended functionality, distributed architecture for increased scalability, improved efficiency of billing operations, and enhanced support for multi-national requirement. Intec’s Content Partner Management (Intec CPM) solution will allow Reliance to manage partner agreements for content and value-added services more efficiently. For example, Intec CPM enables operators to accurately handle rating and revenue sharing with direct and indirect partners to support rapid and profitable deployment of next-generation products and services. It also ensures that partners are able to self-manage agreements and transactions via a web portal.

“Intec’s technology, experience and capabilities in BSS/OSS will help us to seamlessly evolve our OSS/BSS architecture into the next generation through the rapid launch of innovative, cost-effective products and services to a huge and growing customer base,” added Mr. Sumit Chowdhury.

Intec Vice President, Asia Pacific, Norm Halvorson concluded, “We are committed to helping our customers create strong competitive differentiation especially in new next generation business services. Intec is proud to support Reliance Communications in its delivery of high quality, next generation services to the rapidly expanding Indian market.”

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri. Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a market capitalization of over Rs. 2,25,000 crore (US$ 53 billion), net worth in excess of Rs. 58,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 12,000 crore (US$ 3 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 2 billion) and zero net debt.

Rated among "Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies," Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of 55 million including over 1.7 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. For more information please visit www.rcom.co.in.

About Intec

Intec supplies solutions to over 70 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
• Optimized 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 35 offices in 26 countries. For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com.

Intec Telecom Systems
Sarah Webb, +44 (0) 1483 753503 or +44 (0) 7876 596683
Sarah.Webb@intecbilling.com
or
Reliance Communications Ltd.
Guarav Wahi, + 91 93229 04680
VP Corporate Communications
Guarav.wahi@relianceada.com
www.rcom.co.in