Intec signs 2 million Euro mediation deal in Romania

April 26, 2004, London/Bucharest:  Intec Telecom Systems has a won a two million euro contract to supply Romania's national fixed line provider ROMTELECOM with Inter-mediatE(tm), the market leading, high-performance, fully convergent mediation solution. Under the terms of the agreement ROMTELECOM will implement Inter-mediatE to centrally manage its service offerings quickly and efficiently, taking advantage of the application's powerful, distributed architecture to gather and process network call data information for use in billing and other downstream systems. ROMTELECOM's selection of Intec as its mediation provider was based on the quality of Intec's comprehensive solution in addition to its strong local service and support capabilities, extensive experience in mission critical OSS and recognised expertise in designing and implementing mediation systems.

The contract win underlines Intec's ongoing business expansion into emerging European markets. The Polish, Hungarian and Latvian PTTs are already existing users of Intec's solutions, in addition to a growing number of mobile carriers including Eurotel in the Czech Republic and VimpelCom in Russia.

ROMTELECOM is the leading fixed line national operator in Romania, supporting in excess of 4 million subscribers across the country with the help of over 30,000 km of fibre-optic cable. The company is expected to increase its subscriber figure by 25% by the end of next year. The company offers a host of fixed line services to residential and business customers, including basic telephony, ISDN, Internet and data services.

In January 2003, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization OTE became majority shareholder of ROMTELECOM, owning 54.01% of the stock. The Romanian State owns the remaining 44.99%.

About Intec
Intec is an award-winning worldwide billing and telecom Operations Support Systems (“OSS”) vendor for fixed, mobile and next-generation networks (ie. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 500 installations of its products worldwide. Founded in 1997, Intec was listed on the London Stock Exchange (Code: ITL.L) in June 2000. Intec is the market leader in intercarrier billing systems and convergent mediation software, and a recent winner of the 2003 Global Billing Award – Best Overall Contribution, and Telestrategies ‘2003 Mediation Excellence Award’.

Intec’s billing and OSS  portfolio includes:
Inter-mediatE™ - convergent billing mediation solution
InterconnecT™ - intercarrier billing including US CABS and ITU
Inter-activatE™ - flow-through provisioning and service activation
Inter-contenT™ - end-to-end content revenue management
Intec Dynamic Charging Platform™ – a real-time pre/post-paid charging interface between the network and the back office
Intec ASF™ - end-to-end billing and management for advanced data services

Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Brazil Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), Singtel Optus (Australia), Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telia (Sweden), Telefonica, Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia) and Verizon. For more information on Intec Telecom Systems, visit the website at http://www.intecbilling.com.

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