Released on: June 4, 2008, 4:53 am

Press Release Author: Graphics Today

Industry: Automotive

Press Release Summary: Chess a subsidiary of TeliaSonera, the second largest
supplier of mobile services in Norway, offers a complete range of mobile services
for businesses and consumers. Most characteristic for the Norwegian mobile market is
the extensive usage of non-voice services, and Chess\' customers are among the top
users of MMS and SMS in Europe. The company has a significant share of the Norwegian
mobile market.


Press Release Body: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Business Wire EON) March 4, 2008
-- Chess has signed a new contract with Sergel/RateIntegration, following their
successful cooperation since February 2005. RateIntegration\'s ARS 3.0 Advanced
Rating Server is at the heart of the Sergel service bureau, with many major
carrier-customers in the Scandinavian region, generating subscriptions rating calls,
SMS and MMS messages as well as WAP sessions.


The Service Bureau provides Rating, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Customer Care and
Customer Self Care services that span the entire Chess product portfolio and will
cover all the market segments where Chess is active. Within the long-standing
RateIntegration-Sergel relationship since 2003, Sergel has implemented
RateIntegration\'s rating technology in multiple systems, most importantly, as the
pricing and rating element of its Billionaire Billing Services -
www.sergel.com/upload/EN/Produkter/produktblad_services.pdf




Chess\' advanced bundling, pricing, and discount/promotions are handled by
Billionaire. One of the most critical factors responsible for the success of Chess
has been its unsurpassed time to market for new bundles, price plans and
subscriptions. With 92% of the Norwegian mobile market shared by TeliaSonera and its
competitor Telenor, penetration of this market was already extremely high, and there
was little scope for more growth without significant service innovation or the
allocation of a large budget to acquiring and retaining customers. With its flexible
rules based engine and configuration-driven architecture. RateIntegration\'s ARS 3.0
Advanced Rating Server delivered on the former enabling Chess its competitive edge.


Comments Mr. Arve Andreassen, CTO, Chess Communication AS, \"Apart from its excellent
performance and accuracy, RateIntegration facilitates our most critical success
factor - our ability to be the fastest player in the Norwegian market. The key to
our success is to be innovative and offer the highly sophisticated Scandinavian
mobile customers, attractive new offers, bundles, promotions and discounts as fast
as our marketing experts conceive of these. Whether these are community offers or
complex prepaid-postpaid hybrid subscriptions, we can get these out fast. It is all
about loyalty, and the key to creating loyal customers is to be faster and more
innovative than our competitors in responding to new demands. I am delighted to
summarize that the Advanced Rating Server has met all our expectations in
facilitating this.\"


Imran Jan, EVP of business development at RateIntegration considers this win to be
\"...proof that the RateIntegration product set is poised to replace a significant
share of obsolete and rigid rating engines that exist inside current billing
systems. A small investment in an advanced rating product like our ARS 3.0, followed
by a deployment of our 3rd-generation loyalty management product, RLM 3.0, could
transform a service provider or carrier with legacy BSS investments from playing
catch-up to becoming an industry-leader.\"


About RateIntegration, Inc.


RateIntegration offers the industry\'s only 3rd generation Revenue Lifecycle
Management (RLM) solutions that enable Telecom, Media, Entertainment and Internet
2.0 services providers world-wide to maximize market share, revenues and profit
margins for every service offering, customer agreement and transaction. The
Company\'s primary solutions are based on its flagship pricing engine that has been
processing annual revenues of over $15 billion at global Tier I service providers
for over eight years and include a new Loyalty Manager product as well. Each of
these solutions can be implemented without replacing the existing BSS system,
without creating multiple copies of existing data and without on-going IT
programming costs and delays. www.rateintegration.com


About Sergel:


Sergel is one of Scandinavia\'s leading companies in the billing service bureau/out
sourcing market. Sergel offers its customers the option to outsource a part of, or
the entire payment process. Its Customer Care and Billing service, Billionaire,
offers a flexible solution, supporting future communication services and business
models. It is designed to give customers a competitive edge in their market by
enabling them to capture the business benefits of increased revenues, reduced costs
and satisfied customers. With over 200 employees and headquarter in Stockholm, it
has several local offices in Helsinki, Karlstad, Gothenburg, Vilnius, Visby, Oslo
and Skelleftea.


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