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October 28, 2003
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Nigeria's M-Tel Selects Sentori, Intec and GPNW
Best-of-Breed Vendors Selected to Provide Interconnect and Billing & Customer Care for
Next-Generation GSM Network Build-Out
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Laurel, Maryland, USA/ London, England - October 28, 2003 - Sentori, Inc.,
Intec Telecom Systems, and GPNW Consulting (UK) Ltd. are pleased to announce that
Nigeria Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-Tel), a leading mobile carrier in Nigeria,
has selected them to provide mission-critical interconnect, billing and customer care
solutions for M-Tel's next-generation national GSM mobile network. With Sentori acting
as the prime contractor these vendors have teamed up to provide M-Tel with a state-of-the-
art solution that will help to increase M-Tel's revenue, lower administrative costs,
and enhance the quality of M-Tel's customer support.
"We are delighted that M-Tel has opted for the solution set offered by Sentori, Intec and
GPNW," said John Bennett, Sentori's President and CEO. "M-Tel serves the largest
market in Africa. Our combined solution will allow it to have a sustainable competitive
edge as it continues to acquire customers in the highly-competitive Nigerian
environment."
With the largest population in Africa and one of the lowest telephone service
penetrations in the world, Nigeria offers massive growth potential for the GSM industry.
"Nigeria's fast-developing mobile market, combined with its large population, makes it
one of the most attractive telecoms markets in Africa," said Dave Baker, Intec's regional
Director for Africa. "Not surprisingly, competition for this billing project was extremely
tough. After an extensive evaluation process that involved some of world's leading OSS
vendors, M-Tel selected the Sentori and Intec solutions on the basis of the companies'
proven, flexible technology and on their experience in Africa and other emerging
markets. Intec will work closely with Sentori and GPNW to ensure the seamless delivery
of M-Tel's solutions."
Nigeria's mobile market is developing faster than any other sector with the rise of
wireless communications and the government's decision to award mobile licenses to
several international carriers. As a result, Nigeria's mobile subscriber base is expected to
reach 30 million out of a population of 120 million by 2006, compared to only 2 million
today. As M-Tel responds to this explosive demand for mobile services, Sentori and
Intec will support its increasingly complex retail billing and intercarrier billing
environments.
"Intec is pleased to partner up with Sentori and GPNW to support M-Tel's strategic
expansion into GSM," said Kevin Adams, Intec's Chief Executive Officer. "With a growing
market presence and widely varying challenges and opportunities, M-Tel will quickly
recognise the value provided by the Intec and Sentori solutions to achieve greater cost
savings and profitability through complete, accurate billing."
Sentori will supply M-Tel with its Sentori® Billing and Customer Care system, an award-winning
multi-service customer management software solution. Intec will supply M-Tel
with its InterconnecT® billing solution -the market leading software application that
enables telecommunications companies to charge other carriers for using its network to
carry traffic and support services.
"We chose Sentori to lead this effort based on the flexibility and scalability of Sentori's
billing and customer care platform, as well as on Sentori's outstanding record of on-schedule
delivery", said Aad Loois, M-Tel's Chief Executive Officer. "Furthermore, we are
delighted by Sentori's selection of Intec and GPNW to round out the solution. This first-rate
team will guarantee a swift and successful implementation as well as a fast return
on investment."
| Sentori, Inc | Sean Mallon | +1 (240) 568-6201, ext. 268 | email |
| GPNW | Jason Andrews | +1 (604) 605-0830 | email |
| Intec Corp. | Andrew Rodaway | +44 (0) 7768 808082 | email |
| Intec EMEA/ A-P | Georgia Hanias | +44 (0) 7812 211 403 | email |
| Intec US/ CALA | Rosemary Mount | +1 770 206 4600 | email |
| Intec US/ CALA | Kelly Herring | +1 404 705 2800 | email |
About M-Tel
Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-Tel) provides mobile service throughout
Nigeria. M-Tel is one of Nigeria's leading mobile providers, and is 100%-owned by
NITEL, Nigeria's incumbent provider of landline telecommunications services. M-Tel
currently has approximately 125,000 subscribers and will launch a major national roll-out
of a next-generation GSM network by the end of 2003.
About Sentori
A privately-held, Maryland, USA-based company founded in 1994, Sentori Inc., provides multi-service customer management
software solutions to the communications services providers worldwide. Led by its flagship product - the Sentori®
Billing and Customer Care system - this rapidly growing company is helping evolving 3G wireless carriers,
mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and other comunications service providers
acquire and retain high value customers, by giving them control of the entire customer
management process. Sentori has a track record of in-budget and
on-time product implementations combined with world-class client support services.
For information about Sentori's products, services and employment opportunities visit
www.sentori.com or call Sean Mallon, VP of Marketing
and Business Development, at smallon@sentori.com
or at +1 (240) 568-6201, ext 268.
About Intec Telecom Systems
Intec Telecom Systems is an award-winning worldwide Operations Support Systems
(" OSS") vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks (ie. WLAN, 3G and IP),
with more than 500 installations of its products worldwide. Founded in 1997, Intec was
listed on the London Stock Exchange (Code: ITL. L) in June 2000. Intec is the market
leader in intercarrier billing systems and convergent mediation software, and a recent
winner of the 2003 Global Billing Award Best Overall Contribution, and Telestrategies
'2003 Mediation Excellence Award'.
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