Polkomtel Poland Signs With MACH for Advanced Roaming Business Management Solutions

LUXEMBOURG - MACH, the leading provider of solutions to simplify and accelerate the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain, announced today that it has signed a deal to provide roaming business management services to Polkomtel, the largest mobile operator in Poland.

The Polish market has seen significantly increased competition in recent years, and the current pressure on retail tariffs will increase as EU roaming regulations come into effect. The resulting margin pressure requires Polish operators to build new revenue streams, to minimise revenue leakage and to reduce operational costs.

MACH’s advanced roaming business management solutions provide the real-time visibility and control to maximise roaming revenues and profitability. Built on a NRTRDE-based data clearing platform, MACH solutions also allow Polkomtel to limit fraud losses through the early detection of fraudulent roaming activity. Polkomtel will not only benefit from MACH’s Data Clearing solutions for secure file processing and roaming data exchange to accelerate settlement processes and eliminate revenue leakage, but will also be able to employ more effective and faster decision-making based on MACH’s business intelligence tools for roaming business analysis, tariff management and end-user routing.

The market leader in clearing and settlement, MACH offers the industry’s most time- and cost-effective revenue assurance solutions. These solutions will enable Polkomtel to optimise its roaming traffic and identify new revenue opportunities. Furthermore, optimisation and streamlining of the billing cycle will eliminate revenue leakage. MACH’s local presence and support structure ensure that Polkomtel’s deployment of the MACH suite will maximise return on investment and minimise time to value.

“MACH clears more than half of all roaming calls on GSM and CDMA networks and on top of that, we have more than 300 operational NRTRDE clients,” noted Morten Brogger, MACH’s Chief Commercial Officer. “Our experience in this area is unparalleled and we are delighted that Polkomtel has chosen to work with us to build their roaming business.”

Editors’ Notes

MACH’s one-stop-shop range of advanced solutions selected by Polkomtel include: Data Express: Cutting-edge NRTRDE conversion and logistics service. Data Clearing: Secure file generation and roaming data exchange for timely settlement. IOT Check: Detecting and handling erroneous charges for accurate invoicing. Smart: The market-leading Business Intelligence tool for accurate analysis. Re-pricing: Simulation of optimal pricing, end-user routing, strategic tariff plans. RAEX Manager: Electronic exchange and management of roaming documentation. Further information, visit - www.mach.com/solutions/

About MACH

MACH unlocks the potential of the mobile business eco-system by providing the core conductor which equips any industry player to enable and handle any tele-application or interaction, on any technology, anywhere in the world.

MACH’s suite of technology platforms simplifies and accelerates the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain. It is the conduit that connects the mobile market community and extends compatibility, quickly and at low cost, through a multi-faceted portfolio of solutions.

Through MACH, any industry player can harness market diversity and complexity to realise innovative business models and unlock consumer-centric services for the end user, regardless of location, device and technology.

Originally founded in 1987, MACH has merged with, and today incorporates the experience and expertise of, market-leaders such as Dan Net, Cibernet, End2End and PROGRATOR|gatetrade. MACH employs 1,000 people serving over 600 customers worldwide.

MACH is a proud member of the GSMA and CIBER industry organisations, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), WiMAX Forum, Rural Cellular Association (RCA), CDMA Development Group (CDG) and CTIA. Visit www.mach.com

About Polkomtel

Polkomtel SA is the operator of the largest polish mobile telephony network Plus launched on 1 October 1996. Currently the Plus network has over 14m users and is available for 99% of population on 98% of the territory of Poland. In addition to voice calls, Plus offers its subscribers an extremely broad and continuously increasing range of value added services.

Since the beginning of its operations Plus has been a pioneer in introducing to the Polish market state-of-the-art technological and data communication solutions. Customers of the network were the first in Poland to use high speed data transmission HSCSD and packet data transmission GPRS and EDGE, allowing the use of internet resources via a mobile telephone. In September 2004, Plus was the first operator in Poland to launch commercially in Warsaw a third generation network in UMTS standard. Currently the network offers the broadest coverage of 3G technology in Poland, including HSDPA, which covers ca. 50% of the population. The Plus network was the first in Poland - and one of the first in the world - to implement CAMEL technology. Visit plus.pl/english/

Source: MACH and Polkomtel

Enquiries: Helle Auken Lygum, MACH, E-mail: hely at mach.com, Tel: +45-4582-1600; Ewa Rogowska, IR and Interconnect Analysis Sub-Department Manager, Polkomtel, E-mail: ewa.rogowska at plus.pl