Digifone Ireland
Redknee's Location based services selected by Digifone

Toronto, Ontario, Dec. 18, 2001 (PR Newswire) -- Redknee Inc. today announced that Digifone, one of Ireland's leading mobile phone operators, has selected Redknee's Location Services application to provide location services to Digifone's mobile customers in Ireland.

Redknee's Synaxis ELS™ (Enhanced Location Services) application provides location management functionality that can be securely managed by subscribers. The ELS™ application builds on existing Redknee products providing open services architecture already deployed in Digifone. With the introduction of Synaxis ELS™, Digifone will be able to provide a range of new services and further strengthen their mobile services offerings.

Commenting, Danuta Gray, Chief Executive, Digifone, said: "Redknee's ELS™ gives us the ability to deliver innovative new services to our customers. We have selected Redknee's location services application because it delivers value and new functionality to meet our market needs." With the introduction of location-based services, customers will receive specific, user-defined services based on the location of their mobile phones.

"We are delighted to have been chosen by Digifone to provide the solution for location services" said Duncan Ratcliffe, President and CEO of Redknee Inc. "Location services will be a tremendous and valuable addition to Digifone's portfolio of services for their customers." The ELS™ location application is one of many applications operated by Redknee's OASIS™ application architecture. This product architecture integrates network functionality including real time rating, customer profiling, presence management and support for roaming. Available today, OASIS™ application architecture advances Open Services Architecture (OSA) design including 3GPP OSA and Parlay Group API specifications.

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/.