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Newly-announced Telco Services Accelerator will assist the Italian provider in reducing operational and service fulfillment costs

MILAN — February 10, 2011 (FTTH Europe Conference 2011) — Sigma Systems, an industry leader in Advanced IP Service Fulfillment solutions, today announced that Tiscali, one of the leading independent telecommunication companies in Italy, will deploy its Telco Services Accelerator to activate and provision voice and data services across Tiscali’s customer base of over 700,000 subscribers.

“Sigma Systems will be a key partner in Tiscali’s vision of becoming a self-sufficient telco serving the Italian market,” said Luca Scano, Tiscali’s General Manager. “As we continue to roll out new services on both FTTH and ADSL networks, Sigma Systems’ platform will help us meet our business goals of reducing costs while delivering the highest-quality services to our subscribers and keeping our country on the cutting-edge of broadband.”

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — According to industry analyst firm Ovum, the prepaid segment in the U.S. wireless market grew 17 percent in 4Q09 to 54.4 million subscribers, and — by 2014 — 24 percent of all U.S. wireless connections is expected to be prepaid. As more North American communications service providers (CSPs) offer prepaid products, Telcordia’s advanced Service Delivery and Charging solutions will play a key role by providing them with integrated applications that handle real-time session control, real-time policy, real-time charging, and converged and interactive services, and will help them increase prepaid market share and brand reach.

A key example of Telcordia’s Service Delivery and Charging solutions is the success that Sprint and its branded service providers have garnered with their prepaid offerings. Already one of the largest prepaid service providers in North America, Sprint can write and apply session control, rating, charging, usage and more

WALLDORF, Germany, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today launched the SAP® Billing for Telecommunications package, an integrated solution designed to cover the widespread demands and service portfolios of communications service providers (CSPs) globally. With this package, individual SAP offerings for rating, charging, invoicing and financial management are combined for the first time on a flexible billing platform, offered in conjunction with analytics and a broad-based value management program. Building on the acquisitions of software companies Highdeal and Sybase, this solution marks a new step in enabling CSPs to launch and monetize next-generation service offerings.

Competitive Edge Through Next-Generation Services

Today’s CSPs need to offer a wide array of innovative services — such as cloud services, app stores or mobile entertainment — in order to increase revenue from consumers and business customers. In addition, they must be able to support industry realities such as fixed more

The UnboundID 3.0 Suite Provides the Real-Time Integrated Identity Layer Required for High-Volume Applications and Cloud Environments

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UnboundID™ Corp. today released a new version of its identity management platform that includes capabilities designed to enable the delivery of cloud services and mobile applications. The latest release of the UnboundID platform, which is the only identity management platform certified as VMware Ready, includes the ability to securely synchronize and integrate multiple identity data repositories in real-time to meet the demands of high-volume cloud and mobile services.

“Unifying identity data from different databases and repositories in real-time is critical to delivering cloud services and new mobile applications. In partnership with UnboundID, we are enabling telecommunications providers to unlock network subscriber data such as a subscriber’s location or user preferences,” said Jeff Cortley, VP Solutions and Product Management of Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Enablement business.

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The Starbucks Card Mobile App offers customers with BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone and iPod touch the fastest way to pay at nearly 6,800 U.S. company-operated Starbucks stores

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced the launch of mobile payment in all U.S. company-operated stores, allowing customers to pay for in-store purchases with select smartphones. Building on the earlier introduction of Starbucks Card Mobile App for select BlackBerry® smartphones, iPhone® and iPod® touch and a successful mobile payment test program, customers now have access to the largest mobile payment program in the U.S. and the fastest way to pay at Starbucks. This national program now includes nearly 6,800 company-operated stores and more than 1,000 Starbucks in U.S. Target locations.

In addition to engaging a loyal base of several million cardholders with the offering, Starbucks anticipates mobile payment will be a draw for customers looking to experience the speed, ease more

TORONTO – January 12, 2011 – Redknee (TSX:RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is pleased to announce a multi-million dollar upgrade of Unified Profile Server (UPS) by a Tier 1 North American operator. The upgrade will enable the Tier 1 operator to optimize 3rd party content in order to personalize value-added services and generate new revenue streams such as mobile advertising. The need to provide a better customer experience for app users becomes imperative for Tier 1 operators as it is estimated that revenue generated from mobile applications and content in North America alone will exceed $10 billion by 2015.

Lucas Skoczkowski, Redknee’s CEO commented:

“The growth of smart phones and mobile applications has set the scene for 3rd party content and value-added services to flourish. Redknee’s personalization solutions are enabling this Tier 1 operator to maximize more

Flexible, high availability Comptel Dynamic OSS solution will help the communications service provider manage more than 400 million transactions daily

HELSINKI, Finland— 11 January 2011—Comptel Corporation (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, today announced that Movistar Argentina, the Telefónica Group’s mobile communications service provider (CSP) in Argentina, has upgraded Comptel Convergent Mediation in order to take advantage of the platform’s enhanced performance, scalability and ease of use.

The project, which was carried out in collaboration with Comptel partner IBM Argentina, will provide a significant increase in capacity, extended support and flexibility. This will help the operator not only collect and transform more than 400 million network transactions daily into billable records, but also efficiently and effectively deliver and charge for advanced mobile services.

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• Movistar Argentina, a subsidiary of Telefónica Móviles Argentina, is the leading mobile CSP more

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 11, 2011 – Verecloud (OTCBB:VCLD), which enables communications service providers (CSPs) to capture market share in the emerging cloud computing services business, and Intalio, the Cloud Company, today announced a partnership to include Intalio’s Cloud offering, starting with it’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, on Verecloud’s Nimbus CSB platform.

This partnership addresses the service demands placed on CSPs within their operational support system (OSS) environment. The integration of Intalio’s cloud based CRM solution into Verecloud’s offerings is one of the many Intalio | Cloud solutions that Verecloud plans to offer to CSPs through its cloud services brokerage model.

The Intalio | CRM solution provides three key features that allow CSPs to seamlessly manage relationships with customers and partners including:

Next-Generation User Interface – an always-on productivity tool to provide access to vast amounts of information with as few mouse clicks and more

Enabling WiMAX Services in Seven Days

WiMAX FORUM GLOBAL OPERATOR SUMMIT – TAIPEI, Taiwan – January 10, 2011 – Enabling an accelerated deployment of Guyana’s first Mobile WiMAX network, Aptilo Networks, the global leader in pre-integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including Wi-Fi, WiMAX™ and LTE, has been selected by E-Networks Inc, the largest wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider in Guyana, to provide service management, prepayment capabilities and policy control for their WiMAX service.

WiMAX is now available in the capital city Georgetown and surrounding areas. The launch is part of a broader strategy by the company, working with telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei, to roll out the services countrywide.

The service was deployed in record time thanks to Aptilo’s WiMAX CSN System™, a pre-integrated wireless broadband solution with standards-compliant Mobile WiMAX AAA Server, prepaid system, hotlining portal, policy management more

ADTRAN(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading supplier of next-generation networking solutions, today announced the Advanced Operational Environment (AOE), a management framework focused on service delivery and overall operational improvement. AOE moves beyond the traditional role of a Network Management System by abstracting the hardware and associated learning curve away from the user or OSS interface. Instead, AOE provides a service-centric approach to management, adding a knowledge base using expert system logic to provide innovative cost and time-saving service activation and diagnostic capabilities.

“AOE provides the foundation for a multitude of value-add applications that offer both operational savings and revenue generation opportunities for our customers,” said Ken Gold, product line manager, network management solutions, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. “Our customers sell services, therefore we focused our management system efforts to align with our customers’ operational needs.”

AOE is designed to integrate with existing OSS systems, reducing the need for more