Intec doubles CALA headquarters and staff

São Paulo, Brazil office relocated to Avenida Paulista

São Paulo/London – 23 February, 2005 - Intec, a leading BSS/OSS software vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks, has expanded its office in São Paulo, Brazil to provide new facilities for training and supporting its many customers in the CALA region, as well as anticipating growth in the company following the acquisition of the ‘Singl.eView' customer billing business last year. The new office, located in the Conde Andréa Matarazzo building, sits 17 stories above Avenida Paulista, São Paulo 's equivalent to Wall Street.

The São Paulo office is one of Intec's four Centres of Excellence, and is the regional headquarters for the Caribbean and Latin America . The vast majority of Intec's CALA staff is based in São Paulo .

About Intec Billing
Intec is a leading Operations Support Systems (OSS) product vendor for fixed, mobile, MVNO and next-generation networks (e.g. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 680 installations of its products worldwide in 470 customers. Founded in 1997, Intec was listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2000. Intec is a market leader in billing, mediation, mobile service charging and activation systems. For the year ended 30 September 2004, Intec reported revenues of £68.8 million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £8.7 million.

Intec’s product portfolio includes:
· Singl.eView™ – dynamic transaction management/retail billing - also referred to as Singleview.
· Inter-mediatE™ – convergent billing mediation solution;
· InterconnecT™ – inter-carrier billing including US CABS and ITU-based settlement;
· Inter-activatE™ – flow-through provisioning and activation;
· InterconnecT CPM™ – end-to-end content partner management; and
· Intec DCP™ (Dynamic Charging Platform) – real-time pre/post-paid charging.

Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), Nitel (Nigeria), Reliance (India), SingTel Optus (Australia), O2 Ireland, Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Telia (Sweden), Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Mobile, Vivo (Brasil), XO Communications and Verizon.

For more information about Intec and its products and solutions visit www.intecbilling.com.

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