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Tier 1 APAC Operator Renews Redknee Support Contract


Published on 2013-04-24 04:18:56 - Market Wire
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April 24, 2013 07:00 ET

Tier 1 APAC Operator Renews Redknee Support Contract

TORONTO--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2013) -  Redknee (TSX: [ RKN ]), a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is pleased to announce that it has renewed a multi-million dollar support contract upon similar commercial terms. The renewal contract will see Redknee enable the APAC communication service provider (CSP) to deliver services to its 30 million subscribers and will support its future growth strategy.

The service provider's decision to continue its investment with Redknee is in response to the success that the CSP is experiencing in the high-growth market it operates in and in preparation for the launch of 3G services. Redknee's highly scalable and agile converged billing, charging, customer care, and payments solution is supporting mobile network operators (MNOs), mobile virtual network operators/enablers (MVNO/Es) and other communications service providers to deliver an advanced customer experience, increase revenues and improve profitability.

Lucas Skoczkowski, Redknee's CEO, commented:
"This increased investment in Redknee by our customer in Asia Pacific is indicative of the positive impact that the growth of 3G and LTE adoption will have on increasing traffic and revenues for communications service providers. We are pleased with the support we are receiving from our new customers, as we continue to integrate the most recent acquisition and create a compelling new provider of choice in the real-time monetization and subscriber management software space."

Redknee supports communication service providers with a complete portfolio of monetization and subscriber management solutions for mobile network operators, MVNE/Os, and service providers across the world. Redknee enables CSPs to monetize and optimize the subscriber experience across the entire customer lifecycle. From activation to provisioning, to providing a 360 degree view of the customers' usage, preferences, and integration with 3rd party social media sites, to empowering customers with self-care tools and the ability to pay for services on the go, Redknee provides the industry's most comprehensive real-time converged billing, charging, customer care and payments solution. Redknee's highly scalable and flexible solution enables CSPs to monetize third-party relationships and content, support resellers and dealers and launch multi-country operations quickly, effectively and with a low total cost of ownership. Available on-premise, cloud-based and as a Software-as-a-Service offering, Redknee provides a complete monetization and subscriber management solution to more than 200 service providers, including some of the largest Tier 1 operators in the world. 

For more information about Redknee and its solutions, please go to [ 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 service providers to monetize new services, business models and content and to deliver a comprehensive customer experience. Redknee's revenue and subscriber management platform provides innovative converged billing, charging, customer care, and payments solutions for voice, messaging and data services to over 200 service providers in over 90 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 about Redknee and its solutions, please go to [ www.redknee.com ].

Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this document, including the extent of revenue that may be realized by Redknee from the contract entered into to deploy its wholesale billing and settlement solution and the ability of that solution to enable customers to maximize the value of their network may constitute "forward-looking" statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. When used in this document, such statements use such words as "may," "will," "expect," "continue," "believe," "plan," "intend," "would," "could," "should," "anticipate" and other similar terminology. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Persons reading this news release are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes.

Such forward-looking statements include the statements regarding financial and other projections as well as statements regarding Redknee's future plans, objectives or performance for the current period and subsequent periods and regarding the markets for our products. These statements reflect current assumptions and expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this document. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to vary significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the inability of Redknee to meet performance metrics specified under the contract or otherwise satisfy its obligations required to be performed under the contract, a material adverse change in the affairs of Redknee, and the factors discussed under the "Risk Factors" section of Redknee's most recently filed AIF which is available on SEDAR at [ www.sedar.com ] and on Redknee's web-site at [ www.redknee.com ]. "Risk Factors." Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.

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