Highdeal, the world leader in Pricing & Rating solutions, has won the 2007 TeleManagement Forum Excellence Award for “Most Innovative Supplier.” The award was given in recognition of Highdeal’s exceptional leadership and innovation in expanding the boundaries of OSS and BSS solutions and greatly improving Service Providers ability to offer new next generation services.

The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) launched the awards this year to recognize operators, system integrators and software companies that have made outstanding contributions towards 21st century telecom business transformation through noteworthy operational and service delivery initiatives. The judging panel was lead by Mick Reeves, the former Group Technology Officer of UK telecoms giant BT and the winners were evaluated and selected by leading industry experts.

“We’ve established this awards program to recognize companies who are making great contributions in the field of delivering service excellence” said Keith Willetts, Chairman and Founder, TeleManagement Forum. “This program will showcase the outstanding work done by our members in furthering TM Forum initiatives, such as Highdeal, as they shape the future of the industry.”

“The TeleManagement Forum has led the industry in terms of BSS/OSS product interoperability,” added Eric Pillevesse, CEO at Highdeal. “Recognition as an innovative supplier by TM Forum validates the importance of our commitment to bridging the gap between prepaid and postpaid and between BSS/OSS.”

About the TeleManagement Forum
With approximately 600 members in 65 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of telecom, media & information services. The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The TM Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and TM Forum’s Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org.

About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world’s leading provider of Pricing & Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained pricing and packaging flexibility coupled with real-time transaction management, Highdeal solves the billing problem in the multiservice world. The Yankee Group recently named Highdeal the fastest growing billing and rating vendor defined in terms of announced customers. With over 170 implementations in more than 50 countries, broadband, mobile and on-demand service providers around the world rely on Highdeal. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com