Antigua Public Utilities Authority PCS Deploys Redknee Solution
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Redknee Advances Prepaid Service in Antigua and Barbuda by Providing a
Real-Time Charging Solution to Enable Flexible Rate Plans and Promotions
TORONTO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Redknee Solutions Inc. ("Redknee")
(AIM: RKN), a leading provider of innovative infrastructure software that
monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, today
announced that Antigua Public Utilities Authority PCS ("APUA PCS") has
successfully deployed Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing solution in Antigua
and Barbuda.
Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing Solution, with its flexible, real-time
rating engine, provides APUA PCS the opportunity to remain competitive by
offering their prepaid subscribers leading-edge rate plans with innovative
promotions and usage incentives.
APUA PCS will be able to accelerate the time-to-market of new services by
utilizing Redknee's advanced prepaid real-time rating to support new revenue
opportunities, such as real-time promotions, resulting in improved
efficiencies, increased customer satisfaction, and rapid new service rollouts.
Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee commented:
"The successful deployment of our solution for APUA PCS further validates
Redknee's product leadership in fully converged real-time charging and
billing. We are committed to partnering with APUA PCS in order to deliver both
flexibility and improved subscriber services that should ensure APUA PCS'
continued market leadership, subscriber satisfaction and business success over
a number of years."
Allan Williams, General Manager for APUA PCS also commented:
"The Redknee Turnkey Converged Billing solution was deployed and
integrated in a timely and thoroughly professional manner. We have already
received positive feedback from subscribers commending us for a vastly
improved prepaid service. We are very satisfied with the system and we are
looking forward to using the platform to offer additional advanced
applications in a manner that meets and exceeds customer demand."
The Caribbean wireless market is forecasted to exceed 26 million
subscribers by 2011, according to a report by Business Monitor International,
signifying the Caribbean as an important emerging market for wireless
services.
About Redknee
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software
products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable
operators to monetize the lifetime value of each subscriber transaction while
personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and
individual market segment requirements. Redknee's revenue generating
solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for
voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 50 network operators
in over 40 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc. (AIM: RKN)
is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its
various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations
of those entities. For more information, please visit http://www.redknee.com.
(C)2007 Redknee All rights reserved.
About APUA PCS
APUA PCS was one of the first in the English speaking Caribbean to
introduce GSM technology. APUA PCS is justifiably held in high regard
throughout the region as a very successful indigenous Antiguan enterprise and
locally there is continuing strong support of this home grown enterprise. APUA
PCS set the local regional mobile industry on its head when we introduced
"Calling Party Pays" as our basic standard resulting in an immeasurable
improvement in local productivity not to mention social convenience. For more
information, please visit http://www.apua.ag.
SOURCE Redknee Solutions Inc.
Dalia Asterbadi, +1-905-625-2636, dalia.asterbadi@redknee.com, or Colley
Clarke, Chief Financial Officer, +1-905-625-2604, colley.clarke@redknee.com,
both of Redknee Solutions Inc.; or Heidi Rosenberg of NPI PR, +1-831-440-2405,
heidi@npipr.com; or Ryan Gaffney, or Andrew Chubb, both of Canaccord Adams
Limited, +44 0 207 050 6500; or Jeremy Garcia of Buchanan Communications, +44
0 20 7 466 5000, jeremyg@buchanan.uk.com, all for Redknee Solutions Inc.
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