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MobileOne Singapore selects NetSpira Networks
and Lucent Technologies for New Content-Based
Charging System
Lucent Worldwide Services and NetSpira
Sign Regional Teaming Agreement to Offer
Solution in Asia
15 February 2005 - Cannes, France
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and NetSpira
Networks today announced that they have
provided MobileOne Ltd (M1), Singapore's
leading mobile communications operator,
with a content-based online charging system
for GPRS and UMTS services.
NetSpira also announced today that it
has signed a regional teaming agreement
with Lucent to extend the joint product
created for the M1 project to other operators.
Under the terms of this agreement, Lucent
Technologies will distribute NetSpira's
Enhanced Charging Solution (ECS) product
in the Asia-Pacific region and will offer
the integration expertise of Lucent Worldwide
Services to deploy the online service-differentiated
charging solution.
The offer created for M1 incorporates
NetSpira's ECS, which enables mobile data
network operators to identify the type
of data traffic being sent and received
across a network, with Lucent's MiLife
SurePay® Solutions Suite. SurePay
was already deployed in M1's network under
a contract announced in July 2003. The
capability will allow M1 to use SurePay's
real-time rating and charging system to
introduce service-differentiated ratings
and charging based on a number of criteria
such as the application, content type
and content provider.
Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) served
as the system integrator for the project
and deployed the solution and created
a real-time charging system for prepaid
subscribers by linking NetSpira ECS via
CAMEL Ph3 with Lucent's SurePay®.
Patrick Scodeller, Chief Technical Officer
of MobileOne, said: "Introducing
service-differentiated charging is a business-
critical decision for us. We spent months
testing and evaluating the products from
a number of different vendors and came
to the conclusion that NetSpira's ECS
would meet all of our requirements in
the crucial and key area of differentiated
content-based charging."
Paul Higgs, vice president in the Asia
Pacific region for Lucent Worldwide Services,
said: "Content-based charging is
clearly a promising business opportunity
for mobile data operators. The combination
of NetSpira's sophisticated and flexible
software with the network integration
expertise of Lucent Worldwide Services
delivers a powerful offering for 3G network
operators throughout Asia."
NetSpira ECS sits alongside the GGSN
or the PDSN nodes in wireless networks
and can support both post-paid and prepaid
customers. It fits in with the existing
infrastructure of operators so no replacements
of existing technology are needed. It
has also been deployed and is in commercial
service in Vodafone Spain, Telefonica
Moviles España, Eurotel Praha,
Optimus in Portugal and Virgin Mobile
in the US, along with other prominent
GSM/GPRS and CDMA Operators in the Americas.
NetSpira's Executive Vice President,
Salim A. Mawji and CEO, Jose Lopez, jointly
commented: "This is the first of
what we are sure will be many successes
as a result of our relationship with the
Lucent Worldwide Services Team. In the
last few months NetSpira has announced
two new customers - Eurotel Praha in the
Czech Republic and Virgin Mobile in the
USA - and now M1 marks our expansion into
the Asian market. NetSpira's ECS solution
continues to be the market-leading choice
for mobile data operators who are actively
looking for new revenue streams from content-based
charging".
About M1
M1, Singapore's most exciting and innovative
mobile and IDD service provider, was launched
in April 1997. Since then, it has made
significant inroads into the local mobile
communications market, gaining considerable
brand presence and market share. M1 aims
to be the leader in personal voice and
data communications, focusing on value,
quality and customer service. Further
information about M1 is at www.m1.com.sg.
About the Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies headquartered in Murray
Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers
networks for the world's largest communications
service providers. Backed by Bell Labs
research and development, Lucent relies
on its strengths in mobility, optical,
data and voice networking technologies
as well as software and services to develop
next-generation networks. The company's
systems, services and software are designed
to help customers quickly deploy and better
manage their networks and create new,
revenue-generating services that help
businesses and consumers. For more information
visit www.lucent.com
About NetSpira Networks
NetSpira Networks is an innovative company
focused on enabling content-based charging
and services in IP-based mobile networks,
such as GPRS, UMTS and CDMA networks.
NetSpira Networks is headquartered in
Madrid, with the R&D office in Barcelona
and commercial offices in the UK.
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
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