Press Release

Narus selected by KPN Mobile

Narus mediation products selected by more tier-one carriers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia

May 15, 2003, Billing Systems Conference, London —Narus, the convergent mediation performance leader, today announced that it has been selected by KPN Mobile. KPN Mobile, the Netherlands, is the first company within KPN's Mobile Division who will be using Narus. KPN Mobile will initially be using Narus to enable value-based billing and revenue capture for both pre and post-paid services. Included in the agreement are the convergent mediation products, Narus MobileSight and Narus Prepaid Data, which allow mobile operators to increase ARPU, reach new customers, and also improve postpaid revenues.

“We selected Narus MobileSight and Narus Prepaid Data as our standard after testing various mediation products to determine the carrier-grade capabilities of different vendors in a mobile environment,” said Cees van den Heijkant, CEO of KPN Mobile The Netherlands. “Narus gives us the strategic capability for new pre and post-paid mobile services and allows us to implement these services quickly on a large scale with very low cost of ownership”.

“Narus’ selection by another premier tier-one mobile operator such as KPN Mobile, demonstrates the business value we bring to the creation of new value-based services for both consumers and business users”, said Ori Cohen, Chairman of Narus. “Our mobile mediation products have now been deployed for more tier-one services and subscribers around the world than any other mediation product”.

Narus MobileSight, recently named ‘Product of the Year’ by Internet Telephony magazine, provides the following benefits to mobile operators:

  • Enables higher ARPU via the ability to offer higher value services and capture voice and data network information so those services can be billed.
  • Fully Convergent. Provides traditional voice mediation capabilities as well as mediation for next generation networks and services to simplify operations and lower cost.
  • Brings increased business flexibility so new mobile services can be created quickly.
  • Enables subscriber-friendly business models (e.g. charge by volume, content, transaction, etc. and supports pre and post-paid business models) as well as content-provider friendly business models.
  • Provides an easy interface to existing legacy infrastructure. Works with your existing voice mediation system or can replace it.

Narus Prepaid Data enables the following types of service plans:

  • standard prepaid data plans
  • “try-to-buy” prepaid plans and “pay-as-you-go” services
  • limited risk trials to convert customers to more lucrative postpaid plans
  • converged postpaid and prepaid plans
  • family plans (e.g. parents postpaid, children prepaid)
  • company employee plans
  • support of all mobile networks including new Wi-Fi networks

 

About Narus, Inc.

Narus is the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP networks, and is the only company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system. With Narus, service providers, governments and large enterprises around the world can immediately detect, analyze, mitigate and target any unwanted, unwarranted or malicious traffic. Narus provides its customers with complete, real-time insight into all of their IP traffic from the network to the applications. Combined with the ability to enable numerous actions, Narus customers have the ability to take the most appropriate actions quickly.

Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks around the world including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, US Cellular and Pakistan Telecom Authority. Narus is headquartered in Mountain View, California with regional offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.

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