LHS, the leading provider of telecommunications and billing software, today announced that Iusacell Mexico has selected BSCS iX to rate for its advanced 3G capabilities. Iusacell has selected LHS to migrate its billing and customer care system from BSCS 5 to BSCS iX to support its 3G services with real-time rating. Together with Iusacell, LHS will implement BSCS iX in Mexico.

Iusacell is currently offering its customers a range of new 3G services on its code division multiple access (CDMA) network including email, push-to-talk, downloadable ring tones, games, picture messaging, news and video downloads. To support its range of new services Iusacell needed a reliable, yet flexible billing infrastructure.

BSCS iX from LHS allows Iusacell to launch more innovative 3G services and products quickly, whilst supporting them with sophisticated marketing and pricing capabilities. BSCS iX will enable Iusacell to stay ahead of its competition in an increasingly competitive market. With BSCS iX’s pre-post-paid convergence capabilities, Iusacell also has the option of rolling out all services across both pre- and post-paid customers.

The BSCS iX architecture enables real-time business operations for the entire rating and billing process, thus reaching a new level of customer-centricity, from the point of sale to providing real-time charging information right up to real-time billing self-services. It will allow Iusacell to benefit from easy integration of the system and reduced operational expenditure.

Roberto Vargas, Iusacell Chief Information Officer comments: “BSCS iX flexible rating and cost control capabilities and the open architecture will support us striving to remain number one in our market. LHS BSCS iX will allow us to deliver on our promise to provide next-generation services to all our customers.”

Oscar Convers, Division Officer Latin America at LHS Americas, Sao Paulo adds: “We have worked closely with Iusacell to make sure that their billing infrastructure can deliver the new services they are now offering so that it gains momentum in securing more revenue across this area of the business.”

About Iusacell
Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (Iusacell, NYSE: CEL; BMV: CEL) is a wireless cellular and PCS service provider in Mexico encompassing a total of approximately 92 million POPs, representing approximately 90% of the country’s total population.

For more information, please visit www.iusacell.com

About LHS
LHS is a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide.

LHS Business Support Systems offer full convergence on various levels, supporting the complete range of business models both across the mix of fixed and mobile services, as well as prepaid and postpaid services.

LHS builds innovative systems that enable our customers to introduce new services fast, helping drive revenues up, while keeping operational costs to a minimum. LHS was awarded “Best Billing or Customer Care Solution” by the GSM Association in Cannes in 2005, and won the IIR World Billing Awards for its “Overall Best Contribution to Billing” in London in 2005 and 2006.

LHS is an independent software vendor (ISV) with headquarters in Germany , and offices in Brazil , Czech Republic , France , Malaysia , Turkey , and United Arab Emirates . LHS is part of the LHS Group, and LHS Aktiengesellschaft as the Group’s Holding company is a public company listed on the Frankfurter Stock Exchange (LHS400).

For more information, please visit www.lhsgroup.com