Redknee Announces Two Contracts With Digicel Group in Honduras and Panama
By Prne, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, March 31, 2009
TORONTO - Solution Provides Postpaid Billing Services To Support Growth
Redknee (TSX: RKN), a leading provider of mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, is pleased to announce two contracts with the Digicel Group (”Digicel”), the largest mobile telecommunications operator in the Caribbean and a new entrant to the Central American mobile market.
Digicel selected Redknee’s Turnkey Converged Billing solution to provide postpaid billing, invoicing and some customer care services to operations in both Honduras and Panama, supporting Digicel’s rapid growth strategy. As the fastest growing mobile network operator in the Caribbean and with ambitious growth prospects in Central and Latin America, Digicel required a scalable customer relationship management system with a proven invoicing solution for postpaid wireless customers.
Mario Assaad, Digicel Group’s Chief Technology Officer, stated:
“Digicel has worked with Redknee as we have expanded services across the Caribbean and Central America. We are optimistic that these contracts will support our growth in Panama and Honduras.”
Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee stated:
“The high growth markets are an important part of Redknee’s growth strategy, and we have been consistently gaining market share in these regions, especially with our Turnkey Converged Billing solution. We look forward to continuing to support Digicel’s growth in Central America.”
For more information about Redknee, visit www.redknee.com.
About Redknee:
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. Redknee’s award-winning solutions enable operators to monetize the value of each subscriber transaction while personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and individual market segment requirements. Redknee’s revenue generating solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 70 network operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc. (TSX: RKN) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations of those entities. For more information, visit www.redknee.com.
About Digicel:
Since its launch in 2001, Digicel has become the largest wireless telecommunications operator in the Caribbean and the fastest growing wireless operator in Central America and Pacific. The company operates in 31 markets worldwide with total investments exceeding US$3.4 billion.
For more information, visit www.digicelgroup.com.
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Source: Redknee
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