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*  Ace*Comm
 

ACE*COMM Reports Improved Results For The Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2005

August 23, 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland � ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005, both ending June 30, 2005.

*  AiMetrix
 

*  Amdocs

Amdocs Completes Acquisition of Longshine, A Leading Customer Care and Billing Provider in China

*  AMS (now CGI)

*  Avotus Corporation

Avotus Releases Intelligent Communications Management 7

August 17, 2005, Toronto and Boston � Avotus Corporation, the leading provider of communications expense management (TEM) solutions, is seeing early success for its Intelligent Communications Management� 7 (ICM7) TEM solution which was announced on Aug. 3, 2005. Already, fifteen customers have upgraded or are piloting ICM7 to take advantage of its expense management, control of invoices and inventory, and network usage administration.

* Axiom Systems

Axiom Systems Provides Future Proof Provisioning Platform For Telekom Austria

September 21, 2005, Reading, United Kingdom - Axiom Systems Ltd, a unique provider of service design and delivery software, today announced that Telekom Austria are provisioning their broadband DSL services using AXiOSS® products, in partnership with Alcatel.

*  Azure Solutions

Azure Solutions Hosts Revenue Assurance Seminar in Pakistan
 

September 20, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, will be hosting a one-day revenue-assurance seminar at the Serena Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan on 4 October 2005.

Azure Solutions Wins Mediation Deal with Lebara

September 8, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that it has implemented a mediation and call-record repository system for Lebara, a European MVNO and carrier wholesale provider.

Azure Solutions Wins Fraud-Detection Contract With Warid Telecom Pakistan

September 1, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that it is to provide its Azure Fraud Bureau Service to Warid Telecom Pakistan, the Pakistani mobile operator.
 

Azure Launches Fraud Bureau Service To Asia-Pacific Telcos
 

August 31, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the global telecoms revenue assurance company, today announced the availability of its industry-leading Fraud Bureau Service to telecoms operators in the Asia-Pacific region. Operators in Asia Pacific are currently losing 13.8 per cent of revenue on average though leakage compared to 4.8 per cent in western Europe (Azure Solutions/Analysys 2004). One of the main causes of loss is the large-scale fraudulent avoidance of paying international direct dialing (IDD) and long-distance fees.

Azure and MBT deliver Interconnect Billing to Starhub

August 26, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, and Mahindra-British Telecom Limited (MBT), an IT solutions provider to the telecommunications industry, today announced that they have implemented an interconnect system for StarHub, Singapore�s info-communications provider. The system will deliver interconnect billing for StarHub�s mobile services, improving flexibility of the settlement process, enhanced performance and a reduction in operational costs.

Telesur Deploys Azure's Certo For Automated Revenue Assurance

August 22, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that Telesur, the principal telecommunications service provider in Suriname, South America, has implemented its Certo revenue assurance platform to monitor and analyze the usage data for all of its telecommunications services offerings to increase revenues and reduce potential revenue leakage.
 

Azure To Co-Present Billing Performance And Revenue Assurance Benchmarking Workshop

August 22, 2005, Rio de Janeiro - Benchmarking Billing Performance and Revenue Assurance expert Carlos Javier Cu� G. joins David Smith, managing director of ABIS and director of Global Billing Association (GBA), and Laslzo Harsanyl, director of billing and CRM for MATAV, will present the findings from benchmarking studies conducted by GBA and Azure at a workshop being held in Rio de Janeiro on August 22nd.
 

Azure Inter-Party Settlement System Goes Live For Applied Satellite Technology

August 17, 2005, London - Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that it has provided a convergent-billing and margin-management solution based on its Azure Inter-Party Management product for Applied Satellite Technology (AST), a leading supplier of satellite-communications systems and airtime.

*  Carriers-Interconnect

*  Convergys

Siemens and Convergys Implement Convergent Charging Solution at Telkomsel

September 27, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio - Indonesia's premier cellular and wireless network operator Telkomsel has gone live with the first phase of Siemens' (NYSE: SI) market-leading, real-time, convergent charging solution, charge@once, that features Infinys [tm] Rating software from Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG). Telkomsel obtained the advanced solution to deliver the first-ever, truly convergent pre- and post-paid rating and billing of individual customer segments regardless of payment options. The solution currently supports more than 21 million subscribers.

Convergys Names Dave Dougherty President and Chief Operating Officer

September 7, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio - Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today that David F. Dougherty, Executive Vice President of Convergys'� Global Information Management Group, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Convergys.

Convergys to Present at Smith Barney Citigroup's 12th Annual Global Technology Conference

August 30, 2005, Cincinnati - Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today that its Chief Financial Officer, Earl Shanks, will be presenting at Smith Barney Citigroup's 12th Annual Global Technology Conference in New York.

Convergys Acquires Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Business of Deloitte Consulting Outsourcing

*  CSG Systems

*  cVidya

Cable and Wireless Selects cVidya's MoneyMap for Revenue Assurance

September 20, 2005, Tel Aviv, Israel - cVidya Networks, a leading provider of next generation revenue assurance solutions, announced today that Cable & Wireless, a leading international telecommunications service provider, has selected cVidya�s MoneyMap� product as a core revenue assurance solution. The four-year framework agreement will see Cable & Wireless implement cVidya�s platform across its international operations, beginning with the UK.

China Mobile adopts Intec�s convergent mediation solution for current and future 3G requirements

September 21, 2005, London - Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has signed a contract with Beijing Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, to adopt its multi-service convergent mediation solution, Inter-mediatE, reinforcing Intec�s global market leadership position in the mediation solution space. Intec will partner with HP China to undertake system integration for the solution.

Intec Solutions Deliver Assured Revenue to Trinsic

London, September 13, 2005 � Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, announced today the selection and implementation of its InterconnecT CABS CG^TM and InterconnecT Prep^TM solutions by Trinsic, the nationwide local phone service provider. The service bureau contract signed earlier in 2005 has a seven figure value over the course of its three year term.

Intec Singl.eView Convergent Billing Sets Performance Benchmark on HP Integrity Server
 

September 8, 2005, Atlanta-  Intec Telecom Systems has benchmarked Singl.eView^TM v6, the latest version of its market-leading customer care and billing system, on a single instance of a mid-range HP Integrity server to demonstrate the performance of its highly-efficient architecture.

Intec Revenue Up 63 Percent

August 23, 2005, London - Intec Telecom Systems PLC (LSE: ITL.L), a leading supplier of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS) to the global telecoms industry, today announced its unaudited results for the nine months ended 30 June 2005 ("9m 2005").

China Netcom Goes Live with Intec Convergent Mediation

August 23, 2005, London - Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has successfully completed the first phase of implementation, through its partner Lenovo, of its multi-service mediation solution, Inter-mediatE^TM, at Liaoning Netcom (a subsidiary of China Netcom). The first phase of the project will generate over 40 million Call Detail Records (CDRs) per day, and is expected to grow over three times when a later phase is implemented.

Intec continues expansion into Nigerian market with new contract win
Indosat uses Intec�s InterconnecT v7 to enhance growth and profitability
Major US Carrier Selects Singl.eView For Convergent Billing and Flexible Rating
FINTEL Chooses Intec�s InterconnecT V7 and Inter-mediatE to Manage Interconnect Billing

MaxBill Teams with Atos Origin to Deliver Customer Care & Billing Solutions

September 20, 2005, Israel - MaxBill, a market leader in providing comprehensive financial, customer care and billing solutions, and Atos Origin, a leading international IT services company, today announced the formation of an alliance in the Benelux region that has already resulted in a joint win at a major telecommunications provider.

August 17, 2005, Plano, Texas � MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in comprehensive service fulfillment solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that one of China�s largest incumbent telecommunications service providers has selected MetaSolv to implement a complete ordering and inventory management solution to support convergent telecommunication services.

XO Communications Successfully Completes Extensive OSS Data Migration to Single MetaSolv Inventory System

MIND CTI to Acquire Sentori
 

*  Oracle

Oracle Introduces Oracle� Telecommunications Billing Integrator
 

September 12, 2005, Redwood Shores, California � Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle� Telecommunications Billing Integrator, a new applications product offering that allows communications service providers (CSPs) to integrate Oracle Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications with third-party billing systems, eliminating the need to develop customized integration solutions.

MIND CTI to Acquire Sentori

Syndesis and Toyo Join Forces to Offer Breakthrough Service Delivery Management Solutions

September 7, 2005, Tokyo, Japan - Syndesis, the worldwide leader in network-aware service delivery management solutions, is proud to unveil a solution partnership with Toyo Corporation at the TeleManagement World conference in Tokyo, Japan.

Syndesis Acquires CoManage
 

August 16, 2005, Toronto, ON � Syndesis has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase CoManage Corporation, a privately held global provider of data integrity management solutions for telecommunications service providers. This acquisition solidifies Syndesis as the market leader for �network-aware� service delivery management and expands the portfolio to include data integrity solutions that enable evergreen inventory, revenue assurance and service verification.