Major Ring Back Tone Contracts for over 10 Million Euros awarded to the European Computer Telecoms Group (ECT)

Munich, February 25, 2009 – ECT has won the two biggest tenders for ring back tone solutions issued in 2008 with a total volume in excess of 10 million Euros. In each case, ECT will be replacing an existing solution for several millions of subscribers at one of the leading carriers in the respective region. The solution encompasses WEB, WAP, SMS, USSD and IVR user interfaces in the local languages. ECT provides the complete customisation, network integration and installation as well as performs the data migration and cutover. In Russia, the new ring back tone project, which encompasses over 20 sites throughout the country, marks ECT’s entry into this expanding market. In the United States, ECT will be opening a wholly-owned subsidiary to capitalise further on its success in this region.
These are yet another two large contracts for ECT´s ring back tone solution in addition to the new projects realised in 2008 in Africa and the Middle East. “These contracts again underscore the commercial success and technological superiority of our solutions for ring back tone services,” comments Dr. Marshall E. Kavesh, CEO and founder of ECT, on the recent win. “Worldwide carriers are improving their competitiveness of their ring back tone service by migrating to the technology of ECT.”
ECT markets its ring back tone solutions both in direct sales as well as via indirect sales partners, such as Ericsson. Carriers can also realize their ring back tone services as managed services with ECT’s partners, such as Ericsson Managed Services and Muzicall.
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About the European Computer Telecoms Group (ECT)
European Computer Telecoms (ECT) is a leading provider of value-added services based on the INtellECT® Next-Generation Intelligent Network and Service Delivery Platform.
Our mission is to enable our customers, the network providers, to make money the old-fashion way – by giving businesses and consumers cost-effective services they really need and want. This means lowering the capital and operative costs of technology and paying attention to what makes communications more efficient, more individual, and more fun.
For over 10 years, our customers and partners — leading network operators in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and the Middle East, such as Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Egypt Telecom, MTN, Swisscom, Tele2, TeliaSonera, Telenor, Versatel, Virgin Media and Vodafone, as well as leading network equipment providers, such as Ericsson, — have turned to ECT for the innovations that help them capture new market opportunities and grow revenue and profits.
We make it possible for our customers to rapidly develop and deploy value-added services on mobile and converged networks, such as Ring Back Tone Service, Multimedia Ring Back, Mobile Office, Prepaid Mobile, Interactive Voice Response, Interactive Multimedia Response, Number Portability, Location-Based Services, Televoting, Mass Calling and Network-Based Call Centres.
All services are programmed in the open ECTXML® Extensible Mark-up Language. This language expands upon the industry standards VoiceXML and CCXML, which ECT has supplemented to include the complete control over the call session independent of the underlying network protocol. ECTXML® applications run on our INtellECT® Platform, which simultaneously supports calls to and from legacy networks, IP-based softswitches and converged networks based on the new industry standard IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). With our partner Ericsson, for instance, ECT value-added services, such as Multimedia Ring Back, have already been implemented within IMS networks.

European Computer Telecoms AG
Boris Ekart
Westendstrasse 160
80339 Munich
Germany
Tel.: (0049) 89/ 55 29 47 – 665
Fax: (0049) 89/ 55 29 47 – 111
E-Mail: boris.ekart@ect-telecoms.de

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