ST. LOUIS, MO – June 27, 2007 – Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, announced today that Applifone, an emerging Cambodian service provider, has selected Amdocs Compact Convergence suite to support rapid delivery of next-generation products and services. The Amdocs solution will provide Applifone with flexible and innovative ways to market new value-added services to its customers. This win expands Amdocs' presence in the Asia Pacific region and marks the company's entry into Cambodia.
The emerging Cambodia telecom market is fast-growing and highly competitive. By choosing Amdocs solutions, Applifone will benefit from competitive advantages such as the ability to introduce new products and services to subscribers rapidly and cost effectively. Applifone will also now be able to easily integrate new value-added services such as money transfer, short message service (SMS), personal "Internet Protocol Web-phones" for roamers, call management and mobile data onto a single platform. In addition to the rapid service launch integrated with real-time convergent rating, the solution provides integrated business process support with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capability. This enables customers using self-service on the web to contact Applifone customer service representatives from their personal computer.
"We were looking for solutions that would provide us with the resources necessary to enable us to quickly enter the market with a significant impact," said Applifone CEO Damir Karassayev. "We selected Amdocs' comprehensive solutions to not only help us meet this goal, but also allow us to grow in this market."
The Amdocs Compact Convergence suite offers Applifone convergent prepaid/postpaid charging, invoicing and taxation functions, scratch cards and inventory management, as well as customer care and self-service abilities. The suite provides Applifone with voice and SMS charging, data charging, and charging via any third party applications using the open Web Services interface for both prepaid and postpaid accounts.
The Amdocs Compact Convergence Suite is delivered by the Amdocs Network Business Unit, which focuses on providing real-time, network connected solutions to services providers in emerging markets around the world.
"The Cambodian market is growing at a rapid rate, so the introductions of new services such as convergent billing and a platform capable of supporting multiple concurrent mobile data services will be major factors in helping service providers retain customers and acquire new ones," said Patrick McGrory, Network Business Unit president, Amdocs. "By choosing Amdocs, Applifone will be able to deliver new services as we provide the network service platform, the real-time rating and the business process support."
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation, enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and the intentional customer experienceTM – at every point of service. Amdocs provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the software, service and expertise to help our customers execute their strategies and achieve service, operational & financial excellence. A global company with revenue of $2.48 billion in fiscal 2006, Amdocs has over 16,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at
www.amdocs.com.
About Applifone
Applifone Company Ltd. is a new Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operator in the Kingdom of Cambodia with the brand name Star-Cell (
www.star-cell.net). Applifone is owned and managed by VISOR, an investment company based in Kazakhstan.
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