Roamware Eliminates Over 30,000 SIM Boxes in Less than Six Months

By Roamware Inc., PRNE
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Roamware's Solution Reduces Revenue Leakage by Eliminating Unauthorised GSM Gateways Bypassing Termination/ Interconnect Fees for GSM Operators

SAN JOSE, California, March 29, 2010 - Roamware, Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming software and solutions,
today announced the unprecedented uptake of its SIM Box Detector solution
launched in third quarter of 2009. The solution enables telecom operators to
eliminate unauthorised usage of GSM Gateways to bypass paying
toll/interconnect fees. In less than six months Roamware's solution has been
already deployed in six operator networks and is in trial stages with over a
dozen operators globally.

Rogue international transit carriers use this mechanism to bypass mobile
termination and effectively impact the termination revenues of mobile
operator. The toll bypass results not only in significant revenue leakage for
carriers and mobile operators, but is the source of a variety of service
issues including call setup delays, poor voice quality, network congestion,
and spectrum management issues.

Dr. John Jiang, CTO and EVP of Product Management commented, "Roamware's
SIM Box Detector constitutes of a comprehensive, multi-dimensional quality
management solution, which is installed in the core of the operator network.
It is able to simulate calls from foreign destinations to a range of numbers
within the network and traces the routing of the call to effectively identify
SIM box installations on a 24/7 basis in the long term improving network
congestion, voice quality and revenues."

Typically, interconnect/termination fees account for 15% of operator
revenues, with SIM Boxes in play, operators incur revenue drainage between
5%-20%. Over the past year alone, over half a million unique SIM cards boxes
used by GSM Gateway operators around the world have been identified. Roamware
estimates that telecom operators lose up to 8 Euros per SIM card used in a
SIM box per day, leading to over 100s of millions of Euros in revenue loss.

Dr. Jiang, added, "Today, SIM Boxes are prominent in many parts of the
world, including Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. There
are many issues that operators face in identifying fraud numbers, including
identifying inaccurate SIM card numbers and increased usage of the networks
to run tests. Roamware is able to overcome these challenges with a 99.999%
accuracy rate in tracking SIM Boxes and blocking the SIM cards on a real time
basis. In our engagement with GSM operators over the last six months we have
identified and deactivated tens of thousands of SIM Box gateways across
regions."

Roamware's SIM Box detector's key features include high accuracy rates,
dependable and swift detection, automatic deactivation of SIM Box cards,
non-intrusive of network usages reducing the congestion on networks,
unlimited testing and usage of MSISDNs and random selection preventing
fraudsters from identifying detection patterns.

About Roamware, Inc.

Roamware, Inc. is the leading provider of roaming and mobile financial
services solutions with a customer base of over 400 mobile operators across
150 countries. The company is the global leader in mobile roaming solutions
with an estimated 60 percent market share of the voice and data roaming
segments for GSM, 3G and CDMA technology platforms. Roamware m-commerce and
mobile banking solutions have been successfully deployed by major banks and
global operators around the world, including: Vodafone, Permanent TSB and
Bank of Ireland. Its solutions range from credit transfers, international
remittance, person to person transactions to top-up and bill payment. The
company is headquartered in San Jose with operations in Brussels, Bangalore,
Mumbai, New Delhi Singapore, Dublin, Johannesburg, Amman and Hong Kong.
www.roamware.com

Abraham Punnoose, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Roamware, Inc., +91-9967927777, abraham.punnoose at roamware.com; EMEA, Atomic PR, Vojtech Horna, +44-207-282-2901, vojtech at atomicpr.com, USA, Michelle Sabolich, Atomic PR, +1-415-593-1400, michelle.sabolich at atomicpr.com; India, Ameya Sirur, Gutenberg PR, +91-22-26055745, ameya at gutenbergpr.com

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