Redknee Expands Partnership with Digicel into Pacific Region
Redknee End-to-End Solution Provides Flexibility for Leading-Edge Mobile Services
TORONTO and SAMOA, November 1, 2006 — Redknee Inc., a leading provider of innovative infrastructure software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile users, today announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Digicel Pacific Ltd., the fastest growing GSM mobile telecommunications company in the South Pacific and a sister company to Digicel Group in the Caribbean and Central America.
Digicel Samoa, the flagship operation for Digicel Pacific Ltd., which launched services today, will use the Redknee solutions to provide mobile users in Samoa with leading-edge wireless services and expand its current subscriber base. Digicel Pacific Ltd. also has a license to operate a GSM network in Papua New Guinea, and was granted a license in principal from the government of Fiji in April 2006, as well as an experimental license in the Solomon Islands.
“Digicel has a strong track record of entering new markets with underserved communications needs and completely transforming the market,” said Vanessa Slowey, General Manager of Digicel Pacific Ltd. “Redknee’s advanced software solutions ensure that our expansion will be a seamless experience for both existing and new subscribers.”
Today, Digicel uses the Redknee Turnkey Converged Billing Solution, Enhanced Messaging Gateway, USSD Gateway and IP Charging Solution to provide mobile subscribers across Digicel’s network of more than 20 markets in the Caribbean and Central America with innovative prepaid and postpaid services. Digicel will utilize the Redknee solutions to deliver unprecedented levels of service and coverage in the Pacific Region.
“Redknee is pleased to partner once again with a successful organization like Digicel,” said Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee. “The Pacific region offers exciting growth opportunities and Digicel is in a strong position to replicate the success that their sister company has experienced in the Caribbean, where the company has become one of the fastest growing mobile operators in the world. We are committed to working closely with Digicel Pacific Ltd. and enabling them to deliver in Samoa the excellent wireless service that they are known for in other areas.”
About Redknee:
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable operators to monetize the lifetime value of each subscriber transaction while personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and individual market segment requirements. Redknee's revenue generating solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 70 network operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc.(TSX:RKN, AIM:RKN) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations of those entities.
