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World’s Largest Communications Billing Event Recognizes Narus with Prestigious Award — 5th Narus Award This Year Billing World 2003 Awards Narus “Best Wireless Billing Software”

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

Palo Alto CA, July 1, 2003 —Narus, today announced that it was awarded “Best Wireless Billing Software” at the Billing World Excellence Awards at TeleStrategies Billing World 2003, the largest conference and exhibit showcase in the world devoted to telecommunications billing. Narus received the award at an awards gala held in Miami Florida. A panel of industry experts and analysts nominated Narus for this award and the senior editorial board of BillingWorld & OSS Today magazine made the final selection. This is Narus fifth award in 2003.

The award was received at the Excellence Awards dinner on June 23. In receiving the award, the senior staff of BillingWorld & OSS Today highlighted Narus success with such customers as KDDI (Japan’s largest 3rd generation mobile operator), KPN (one of the largest mobile operators in Europe), and T-Mobile USA (one of the largest mobile operators in the United States). The publisher of BillingWorld & OSS Today, Jill Lucas Morgan presented the award to Narus citing Narus’ MobileSight product which helps bill for data services, such as access and content for SMS, MMS, ringtones, games and instant messaging. Narus’ product has been selected by tier 1 mobile operators on three continents with 100 percent of the company’s existing tier 1 mobile customers making repeat purchases.

" It is an honor to be recognized by leading industry luminaries such as TeleStrategies and the editorial staff of BillingWorld & OSS Today. This award demonstrates our leadership in the mobile market, the success our customers around the world are having in offering value-based mobile services in both post-paid and pre-paid environments, and our proven ability to help monetize new mobile services," said Ori Cohen, Chairman of Narus.
In 2003 Narus has been recognized with five awards in both the Americas and Europe for its success in mobile and other markets. In addition to these awards, Narus has also been a finalist for three other awards for product excellence. Recent awards include:

  • Billing World Best Wireless Billing Software (June 2003)
  • Mobile Star Award for Narus Prepaid Data (May 2003)
  • Mobile Star Award for Narus Intelligence (May 2003)
  • Narus Named “Top 10 Private Telecommunications Company” (May 2003)
  • Internet Telephony’s “Product of the Year” for Narus MobileSight (January 2003)

 

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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