Starmap Selects Alphyra and Redknee to Provide Roaming Broker Solution
-- Enables Travelers to Easily Top-Up Their Prepaid Mobile Accounts

TORONTO, CANADA – March 8, 2006 – Redknee Inc., a leading provider of innovative infrastructure software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile users, today announced it is working with alphyra, the European leader in electronic transactions, to deliver the Roaming Recharge Broker Solution to the Starmap Mobile Alliance. The solution allows travelers to conveniently top-up their prepaid account using vouchers from another country’s network operator as if they were in their home network.

 

alphyra will operate the Roaming Recharge Broker on behalf of the Starmap Mobile Alliance using software jointly developed for the purpose. The Starmap Mobile Alliance is a union of eleven leading mobile operators that allows mobile service for 65 million subscribers to travel seamlessly and effortlessly between Great Britain (O₂), Ireland (O₂), Germany (O₂), Italy (Wind), Norway (Telenor), Denmark (Sonofon), Spain (Amena), Switzerland (Sunrise) and Hungary (Pannon).

 

The Roaming Recharge Broker (RRB) allows roamers to purchase vouchers in a visited country and have this amount credited to their home network prepaid account using their mobile phone. Redknee has provided the customer top-up interface supporting Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and provides the logic to debit visited operators voucher management system and credit subscriber accounts in the home country prepaid system.

 

“We are excited about making seamless international recharge and transfer of funds possible between multiple operators within the Starmap Mobile Alliance,” said Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee. “This provides prepaid travelers with the utmost in convenience and simplicity. alphyra and the Starmap Mobile Alliance have demonstrated a strong commitment to the success of their subscribers, while building strong mobile commerce capability for their subscribers. We are pleased they chose Redknee to provide the necessary mission critical software infrastructure to service 65 million subscribers across all the networks.”

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 60 network operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc.(RKN : AIM) 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. For more information, visit http://www.redknee.com/.