Eurotel Praha selects NetSpira Networks for New Content Based Billing System

14 September 2004 - Madrid, Spain

Eurotel Praha, spol. s r. o., the largest provider of voice and data wireless services in the Czech Republic, today announced that it has chosen NetSpira Networks to provide a new content-based charging system for its GPRS and HSCSD data services.

NetSpira's ECS platform (Enhanced Charging Solution) enables mobile data network operators to identify the type of data message being sent and received. This enables operators to adjust their charging and service model to maximize revenues but at the same time decrease costs for many customers.

By using NetSpira ECS, Eurotel will be able to introduce service-differentiated charging for its Eurotel Live! WAP and video streaming content, corporate e-mail and MMS services, as part of their single APN implementation.

NetSpira ECS sits alongside the GPRS gateway support node or the PDSN in wireless networks and can support both post-paid and prepaid customers. It is also deployed and in commercial service in Vodafone Spain, Telefónica Móviles España and Optimus in Portugal. Along with other prominent GSM/GPRS and CDMA Operators in Americas and Asia Pac.

"We evaluated the main solutions in the market place and found the NetSpira Networks offering very effective and intelligently built, offering the flexibility we require to develop our mobile data services further. It fits in with our current infrastructure so no replacements of existing technology are needed" said Michal Herman, acting CEO of Eurotel Praha, spol. s r. o.

NetSpira's Executive Vice President, Salim A. Mawji and CEO, Jose Lopez, jointly commented: "Content-based charging is the way forward for all mobile data operators. Eurotel has joined our band of early adopter customers who are able to increase revenues whilst at the same time pleasing customers who want flexible pricing packages".

The project will be carried out with the integration services and local support from Hewlett-Packard.

About Eurotel

With more than 4.3 million registered customers at the end of June 2004, Eurotel Praha, spol. s r. o. is the largest provider of wireless voice and data services in the Czech Republic. The mobile telephone networks of Eurotel 900/1800 MHz and 450 MHz cover territory lived in by 99 percent of the population of the CR, i.e. more than 10 million people. Eurotel holds a UMTS license for the operation of 3rd generation mobile services.
As well as permanent customers with billed tariffs, Eurotel offers prepaid cards under the brand name Go and a full range and content of multi-media services, including video, MMS, voice services, WAP and SMS. Eurotel is the only mobile operator in the Czech Republic which offers the two most advanced GSM (wireless) data transfer technologies. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and GSM High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (HSCSD) are available to contractual customers and customers with prepaid services. Eurotel is the first operator in Europe to offer the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO high speed Internet access in its 450 MHz network. The high quality of Eurotel services includes SuperSound technology, which ensures a clean voice connection and 358 roaming partners in 147 countries around the world.

Eurotel holds the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certificates based on international quality and environmental management standards. Independent auditors confirmed that Eurotel had built an operational system that guarantees rendering of quality, stability and lasting services while taking into consideration the environment.

Eurotel Praha is a limited liability company (spol. s r. o.), and is owned (100%) by Ceský Telecom, a. s.

About NetSpira Networks

NetSpira Networks is an innovative and experienced company focused on enabling content-based charging and services in IP-based mobile networks, such as GPRS, UMTS and CDMA networks. Its flagship software product, NetSpira ECS, is deployed and in commercial service in Vodafone Spain, Telefónica Móviles España and Optimus (Portugal). NetSpira Networks is headquartered in Madrid, with the R&D office in Barcelona and commercial offices in London and Helsinki.

For more information, please visit www.netspira.com, or contact Bridget Fishleigh, NetSpira's PR agent, on +44 1273 624 442 or bridget@nomadcomms.com