Cerillion Technologies to Provide Pan National Billing Solution For Tele2 Baltic Operators
London, 30th June 2003 – Convergent CRM and Event Based Billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, has signed an agreement with Tele2 to provide a unified billing solution for mobile and fixed operations in both Estonia and Lithuania. This solution will provide billing for over 500,000 subscribers by the end of 2003.
The billing platform will be based in Estonia but will cover both countries. The decision follows Tele2 Estonia’s decision last year to migrate fixed wire subscribers to the existing Cerillion system that was already billing mobile users in that country.
Said Robin Burton, Cerillion Head of Marketing: “Lithuania is a very competitive market. By moving the billing to the Cerillion system we expect to deliver significant economies in operational and support costs. This should enable even more gains in market share.”
Louis Hall, CEO of Cerillion Technologies, said: “We are very excited about this contract with Tele2, and are very pleased to be able to extend our relationship with Tele2. In a competitive market for OSS solutions, this is an important endorsement of the service that the Cerillion team has provided to the Tele2 Estonia operation over several years. The pan-national billing model makes sound economic sense for groups of operators of this type. We therefore expect that this model will be adopted by other groups of operators in other parts of the world.”
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About Tele2
Tele2 AB, formed in 1993, is the leading alternative pan-European telecommunications company offering fixed and mobile telephony, data network and Internet services under the brands Tele2, Tango and Comviq to 17.7 million people in 22 countries. Tele2 operates Datametrix, which specializes in systems integration, 3C Communications, providing integrated credit card processing, web payment solutions and public payphones; Transac, providing billing and transaction processing service; C³, offering co-branded pre-paid calling cards and Optimal Telecom, the price-guaranteed residential router device. The Group offers cable television services and, together with MTG, owns the Internet portal Everyday.com. The Company is listed on the Stockholmsbörsen, under TEL2A and TEL2B, and on the Nasdaq Stock Market under TLTOA and TLTOB.