STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Teligent today announces two upgrade orders from successful installations.
The first order is for another upgrade delivery to the leading Romanian mobile operator Connex and their Teligent Mobile VPN1) solution, regarding additional traffic capacity needed for the high customer growth.
"The Mobile VPN service has become an important part of Connex Integrated Services Solutions offering, as we bundle it with other services towards the enterprise market and sign three to five year contracts with our customers. The success of Connex Integrated Services has been proven by closing over 1500 deals with major companies in Romania so far, says Vishant Vora, Vice President and CTO of Connex.
With the Teligent P90/E platform operators like Connex can utilise the graphical service creation tool, the Teligent Application Builder, to develop and modify their service offering and prototype new services with short lead times. This moves the service development closer to the market and the end-users which leads to faster implementation of new enhanced services and features.
"his is really good proof of how a mobile enterprise solution, the VPN application, can increase an operator's revenue through increased ARPU, subscriber growth and increased customer loyalty through enhanced and combined service offerings created with the Application Builder tool", says Ulf Lindsten, President and CEO of Teligent. "t is of course a pleasure to receive upgrade orders as a result of our customers' success stories. This is the second upgrade order from Connex during 2004 and proves our business model based on capacity and functional license upgrades to the installed base", concludes Ulf Lindsten.
In addition Teligent has also received a new upgrade order from the Kuwaiti mobile operator Wataniya Telecom regarding new functionality, including SMS, MMS and GPRS roaming, for their deployed Teligent Real-Time Charging Gateway.
Both upgrade orders were received at the end of 2004, and are deployed using the patented Teligent P90/E architecture that separates network signalling, service execution and presentation to end-users. It is implemented in various configurations by a large number of leading carriers in the international telecommunications market, including BT, Cingular, MCI, SingTel, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and members of the Vodafone group.
1) Mobile VPN - By using the Mobile VPN, a part of Teligent's Mobile Virtual PBX concept, all types of calls are managed as if they where carried over private networks, even though the traffic is routed through the public network. Connex offers this service primarily to the Romanian enterprise market in order to provide corporate mobility with increased cost control and efficiency on the basis of e.g. internal short numbers, allocation of different levels of authorisation, differentiated call rates and real-time statistics.
For further information, please contact:
Ulf Lindsten, President & CEO Teligent AB Tel. +46-(0)8 520 660 50 ulf.lindsten@teligent.se Fredrik Backlund, Corporate Communications Teligent AB Tel. +46-(0)8 520 660 03 fredrik.backlund@teligent.se
About Teligent
Teligent develops, markets and sells advanced value added services for telecommunications networks. The services and applications provided by the company are based on the generic service development platform, the Teligent P90/E. Teligent's solutions are currently utilised by leading telecom operators, for example BT, Cingular, MCI, SingTel, Telefonica, Tele2, Telia, and members of the Vodafone group. Teligent was founded in 1990 and has been listed on the Stockholmsborsen (the Stockholm Stock Exchange) since 1999. With offices throughout the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe and the Middle East as well as international partnerships, the company combine global reach with expertise in local market requirements. Teligent has approximately 300 employees and had for the first nine months of 2004 a turnover of SEK 266 millions. For further information please visit www.teligent.se
About Connex
Connex leads the mobile communications market in Romania with 4,910,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2004. Connex is a trademark of MobiFon S.A., a subsidiary of Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ:TIWI; TSX: TIW). Connex's major shareholders are Telesystem International Wireless (TIW), Canada and Vodafone, UK.
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