Orga Systems and BassetLabs sign partner contract

Orga Systems selects BassetLabs as partner for Interconnect billing

Paderborn, Germany, 06. September 2007: Orga Systems, the leading expert in convergent real-time billing, today announced that it has selected BassetLabs as its preferred partner for interconnect billing. The agreement means that Orga Systems can add significant new interconnect billing functionality into its solution portfolio around its flagship billing platform, OPSC Gold.

Orga Systems and BassetLabs will work together to provide operators with a “one-stop-shop” solution for interconnect billing by offering Orga Systems’ leading convergent billing solution OPSC Gold with BassetLabs’ intercarrier billing solution Inopac™. Combining the real-time processing capabilities of OPSC Gold with BassetLabs’ intercarrier billing expertise provides a complete solution that allow operators to handle retail and wholesale billing most efficiently and thus reduce interconnect costs and complexity, and eliminate instances of revenue leakage related to interconnect billing.

OPSC Gold is a unique billing solution that enables true convergence between prepaid and postpaid charging. This product is a powerful revenue-enabler that allows telecommunications service providers to launch innovative pricing plans with flexible payment options while maintaining real-time credit control. For convergent voice and data mediation and real-time charging the OPSC Gold Billing System is pre-integrated with Orga Systems Media Control Point (MCP™) and an IN/Service Control Point (SCP). Innovative mobile recharge and payment products complement Orga Systems end-to-end solution for convergent billing.

Inopac™ from BassetLabs is the complete intercarrier billing solution that provides the best overall cost-effectiveness for domestic and international settlements on the telecommunication market, including e.g. PSTN, GSM, 3G and IP networks. Inopac™ enables telecommunication providers to offer a complex range of services necessary, maximizing the potential revenue within interconnect.

“We selected BassetLabs as a preferred partner to meet the increasing demands of our customers for an end-to-end billing solution with interconnect billing functionalities,” said Rainer Neumann, CEO, Orga Systems. “By integrating BassetLabs’ Inopac™ interconnect billing solution into our portfolio, we can now offer our customers true unified interconnect and wholesale billing within our OPSC Gold billing solution.”

“Cooperation with Orga Systems will extend and strengthen BassetLabs interconnect billing portfolio and the combined solution offering will extend the leading market position of our company.
We anticipate significant benefits for our customers through this joint and complimentary solution offering. Pooling of our interconnect billing expertise will offer both short and long term benefits to the bottom line of our end customers and in addition establish a strengthened platform to meet future billing needs.” comments Jesper Wikström, President and CEO, BassetLabs. “Market and technology synergies between our two companies will contribute to the continued growth of BassetLabs.” he adds.
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Andreas Freund
VP Marketing
Orga Systems GmbH
Tel: +49 (0) 52 51 87 49 – 30 61
afreund@orga-systems.com

About Orga Systems

Orga Systems is a leading expert in mission critical, convergent real-time billing. Its products enable international telecommunication companies to rate, charge and bill any service for prepaid, postpaid and hybrid subscribers.

450 employees in Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the Ukraine and Brazil create cost-effective, custom-tailored solutions based on highly flexible products. Orga Systems won IIRs World BSS Awards "Overall Best Contribution to BSS" in 2007.

42 leading mobile network operators in Continental and Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Latin and Central Americas experience Orga Systems as a strong partner. Characteristics of this partnership include a quick and flexible response to customer requirements and best-in-class, state-of-the-art support and services before, during and after the deployment of its products and solutions.

For more information please visit www.orga-systems.com.


About BassetLabs

BassetLabs portfolio of software solutions focus on maximizing cost savings and securing revenues for telecom operators. BassetLabs specialized billing solutions for interconnect and roaming combined with revenue assurance and fraud management platforms provide telecom operators with the tools with which to meet these demands.

Our domain expertise, project management, solution deployment and support experience is second to none, having supplied more than 140 business critical solutions in 60 countries.

With a strong focus on R&D, BassetLabs can confidently assist our partners and customers towards a profitable future as our dynamic marketplace continues to evolve and grow.
We shall continue to maintain our philosophy of flexible and scalable solutions through our Modulink design methodology, facilitating the rapid introduction and management of emerging services and technologies by our clients.

BassetLabs is part of the Kinnevik industrial group, founded in 1936 and now with over 10,000 employees. BassetLabs was founded in 1996 by pooling the R&D resources of some of the most prominent operators in northern Europe.

For more information please visit www.bassetlabs.com.

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