Cable & Wireless Panamá unifies fixed and mobile data collection using Intec

• Inter-mediatE consolidates two systems to a single convergent platform to save cost, improve operational flexibility and reduce time-to-market

London – 1 September 2004 - Intec Telecom Systems, a global provider of operations support systems (OSS), has successfully deployed its Inter-mediatE™ convergent mediation platform for the collection and mediation of voice traffic for Cable & Wireless Panamá’s fixed and mobile networks. Inter-mediatE replaced two existing mediation platforms to collect TDMA, GSM and SMS data from Cable & Wireless Panamá’s mobile network. Cable & Wireless Panamá has used Inter-mediatE to collect its fixed-line traffic since 1999, and has now consolidated all data collection for its fixed and mobile business onto Inter-mediatE, creating one point of collection, reducing maintenance costs and improving flexibility as well as time-to-market for new services.

“We chose Inter-mediatE because it proved to be a reliable, easy-to-use, and scalable system,” said Julio Toro, Vice-president of Information Systems for Cable & Wireless Panamá. “Inter-mediatE is one of our star applications and it is an important building block in our strategy to provide convergent billing services.”

Cable & Wireless Panamá is using Inter-mediatE to collect, filter, and transform CDRs into acceptable output for its fixed and mobile billing, interconnect, fraud and revenue assurance systems. The telco is also using Inter-mediatE’s Error Processing System which will enable the telco to find, process and fix errors more efficiently, allowing quicker revenue recognition.

“Successfully consolidating Cable & Wireless Panamá’s data collection and mediation using Inter-mediatE further demonstrates Intec’s leadership in the convergent mediation space,” said Ian Gordon, Intec’s Regional Director for the Caribbean and Latin America. “As telcos continue to consolidate their data collection and mediation processes, they will need a convergent mediation platform that will allow them to easily rollout, manage, charge and bill for new services in order to keep a competitive edge. Inter-mediatE is a high performance real-time mediation platform designed to meet the needs of convergent service delivery on networks of all types and sizes.”

Inter-mediatE is one of the world’s leading mediation solutions, with more than 150 mobile, fixed, 3G and IP operators worldwide. Inter-mediatE's carrier-grade performance, unmatched reliability, and highly-configurable business rules-based processing have made it the mediation platform of choice for companies such as Vivo, Verizon, BellSouth, Telstra, COLT, Eurotel and '3'.

About Cable & Wireless
Cable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communications companies. It provides voice, data and IP (Internet Protocol) services to business and residential customers, as well as services to other telecoms carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internet services.

Cable & Wireless’ principal operations are in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Panama and the Middle East.

For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com or www.cwpanama.com.pa

Information on Intec Telecom Systems
Intec Telecom Systems is a leading OSS product vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks (i.e. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 650 installations of its products worldwide in 450 customers. Founded in 1997, Intec was listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2000. Intec is a market leader in inter-carrier billing systems and convergent mediation software, and has recently acquired strong capabilities in retail billing, IP billing and real-time mobile service charging and control. For the year ended 30 September 2003, Intec reported revenues of £50.7 million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £4.1 million.

• Singl.eView™ - dynamic transaction management/retail billing
• Inter-mediatE™ - convergent mediation solution;
• InterconnecT™ - inter-carrier billing including US CABS and ITU-based settlement;
• Inter-activatE™ - flow-through provisioning and activation;
• Intec CPM™ - end-to-end content partner management; and
• Intec DCP™ (Dynamic Charging Platform) – real-time pre/post-paid charging

Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), Nitel (Nigeria), Reliance (India), SingTel Optus (Australia), O2 Ireland, Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Telia (Sweden), Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Mobile, Vivo (Brasil), XO Communications and Verizon.

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