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Highdeal Receives TeleManagement Forum Excellence Award

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Highdeal, the world leader in Pricing & Rating solutions, has won the 2007 TeleManagement Forum Excellence Award for “Most Innovative Supplier.” The award was given in recognition of Highdeal’s exceptional leadership and innovation in expanding the boundaries of OSS and BSS solutions and greatly improving Service Providers ability to offer new next generation services. [Read more…]

Orbitel Implements Highdeal Pricing Rating and Billing Solution

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of Pricing and Rating solutions, has announced that Orbitel, a next generation telecommunications provider in Bulgaria, has implemented Highdeal’s award winning Highdeal Transactive® for the pricing, rating and billing of Orbitel’s portfolio of data communication services. [Read more…]

Highdeal Recognized as Innovator by Two Industry Leaders

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Highdeal, the world leader in Pricing & Rating solutions, has been named to the 2007 “Pulver 100”, the IP Communications industry’s premier listing of privately-held growth companies that represent the future of the IP-voice and video communications ecosystem. The company also announced that it has been named as a finalist in the TeleManagement (TM) Forum’s Excellence Awards in the category of “Most Innovative Supplier”. Both awards recognize Highdeal’s continued leadership in helping service providers to adapt their billing infrastructures to the new challenges of the multiservice world. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks and Highdeal Announce Partnership Deal

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Highdeal, a leading provider of pricing and rating solutions, and cVidya Networks, the global leader and innovative provider of Telecom Revenue Assurance and Data Integrity products, have announced a strategic partnership. Highdeal’s technology will be incorporated into the cVidya Networks MoneyMap® Revenue Assurance solution to enhance its overall performance and versatility. This strategic partnership expands the market opportunities for both Highdeal and cVidya Networks and has already been deployed by leading European communications provider Swisscom Mobile. [Read more…]

Highdeal Continues to Show Pricing and Rating Learship with Record Growth

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing and rating solutions, has reinforced its position as market leader by announcing another record year in 2006, with 33 new customer wins, 40% increase in revenue and an impressive 13% profit margin. Highdeal ends 2006 with over 170 deployments in more than 50 countries, with its technology being used by a range of fast growing start-ups and well established Tier one service providers. [Read more…]

Highdeal Continues to Demonstrate Pricing and Rating Leadership

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing and rating solutions, has reinforced its position as market leader by announcing yet another bumper year in 2006, with 33 new customer wins, 40% increase in revenue and an impressive 13% profit margin. Highdeal ends 2006 with over 170 deployments in more than 50 countries, with its technology being used by a range of fast growing start-ups and well established Tier one service providers. [Read more…]

SFR selects Highdeal Transactive Rating for Roaming-In Services

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions today announces that SFR has selected Highdeal Transactive® to rate its “Roaming-In” services. SFR is the second largest mobile operator in France with over 17,5 million subscribers and is owned by Vivendi (56%) and Vodafone (44%). [Read more…]

Budget Telecom Chooses Highdeal for Pricing and Rating of New VOIP Services

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions has announced that Budget Telecom, a prosperous low-cost telecommunications provider, has selected Highdeal to price and rate its new VoIP services. In a second phase, Highdeal will replace Budget Telecom’s existing pricing and rating infrastructure for all other IP services as well as future fixed-mobile and MVNO services. [Read more…]

Highdeal Introduces New Hybrid Payment Solution with Online Balance Management

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and charging solutions, has announced the introduction of its new real-time Online Balance Management solution, Highdeal Transactive®.

Building on the award-winning Highdeal pricing and rating solution, the new Online Balance Management solution enables service providers to easily create and differentiate new packages, offering flexible payment options such as hybrid prepaid and postpaid plans and shared group payment plans. It is designed to utilise real-time charging information from any number of concurrent applications or blended services in order to obtain on-demand balance information. It also plays an integral role in protecting subscriber balances from credit risk and overspend. [Read more…]

Highdeal Solves Billing Challenge for Wireless Matrix

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of Pricing, Rating and Charging solutions, has announced that leading wireless data provider, Wireless Matrix, has chosen Highdeal Transactive for its billing and partner settlement platform.

According to Maria Izurieta, CFO of Wireless Matrix, “It became apparent early in the selection process that Highdeal was unique in its ability to accommodate our business requirements through simple configuration. We wanted to avoid any custom coding that, in the long run, would have meant limited flexibility. Transactive provides our business with both an operational solution and a real front-office enabler.”

Wireless Matrix provides real-time telematics and mobile resource management applications such as fleet tracking and remote inventory. These services, which leverage both terrestrial and satellite-based communications networks, depend on a large number of remote devices out in the field generating extraordinarily large transaction volumes. This presents a challenge for traditional telecom billing systems. [Read more…]

Videotron Selects Highdeal for Quad-Play Pricing and Rating

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of Pricing, Rating and Charging solutions, has announced that leading North American cable MSO, Videotron, has selected Highdeal Transactive for their billing infrastructure. The solution, which facilitated the launch of Videotron’s new MVNO offering, was successfully integrated into their existing BSS/OSS architecture.

“We are thrilled with the benefits that Transactive has already delivered to our business. By combining wireless telephone service with Videotron’s other offerings, consumers can enjoy quality products and advantageous discounts on their bills,” said André Gascon, VP of Information Technology, Videotron. “And they can simplify their lives through one-stop shopping at Videotron: we are the only industry player that offers customers a single customer service point, one visit from the technician, one bill for all their services.”

Videotron, which provides cable television and telephony, as well as interactive multimedia and Internet services to 3.3 million customers in Canada , implemented Transactive in an aggressive timeframe to meet the launch of their new wireless offering. Videotron successfully launched this service on August 10th becoming the first major North American cable MSO to also become an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). [Read more…]

Highdeal Achieves Certified for SAP NetWeaver Status

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Highdeal has recently announced that the Highdeal Transactive(R) software solution has been successfully integrated with the SAP NetWeaver(R) platform and awarded the “Certified for SAP NetWeaver(R)” logo. The “Certified for SAP NetWeaver” status ensures the interoperability of Highdeal Transactive’s pricing and electronic transaction management software with the SAP application suite. [Read more…]

Highdeal Receives Most Innovative Billing Product Award at World Billing Awards 2006

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Highdeal has received the Most Innovative Billing Product award at the World Billing Awards 2006. The award recognises the innovation and functionality of the Highdeal Transactive® convergent pricing, rating and charging solution. Highdeal Transactive enables service providers to gain pricing, rating, and packaging flexibility while ensuring a future proof solution which delivers high performance, low TCO and proven easy integration with networks and business systems.

The World Billing Awards are widely regarded as the highest industry recognition of billing excellence, rewarding billing best practice and raising awareness of the importance of billing to the communications industry, as Hugh Roberts, Chairman of the Awards Judging Panel and Consultant Director for IIR’s BSS/OSS and RM events explains:

“The projects and products we assessed clearly demonstrated the broadening scope of billing and information management within the increasingly complex communications value chain, and the ability of service providers, consultants and ISVs to identify and implement innovative business models and approaches to markets in far-from-traditional telecoms environments.”

The award is the latest in a series of accolades for Highdeal and demonstrates Highdeal’s continued success. [Read more…]

Highdeal Achieves 55 Percent Growth in 2006

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Highdeal, a provider of Pricing and Rating solutions, has announced an unprecedented an “over 55 percent growth in the first half of 2006”. This dramatic growth reflects increasing recognition among the service provider community of the critical role that Pricing & Rating plays in the marketplace.

“This signing is confirmation of Highdeal’s strategic decision to address the market for convergent charging within the context of IMS and aligning ourselves with the 3GPP standards for convergent charging,” said Eric Pillevesse, CEO of Highdeal. “Through our extensive partnerships and alliances with leading network equipment vendors and multi-service operators we are gaining considerable momentum world-wide.”

Highdeal increased its global footprint in 2006 considerably with 15 new customer wins across Europe, the Americas, North Africa and the Middle East. Highdeal now has over 150 customer deployments in over 40 countries world-wide, supporting a wide range of services including Triple-play, VoIP, mobile and on-demand services. [Read more…]

Highdeal Introduces Pricing and Rating for Video

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing & rating solutions, is introducing revolutionary pricing & packaging capabilities for IPTV and next-generation video services. Available to incumbent cable and DBS providers as well as new entrants, the licensed software solution enables video providers to profit from service innovation. [Read more…]

Highdeal experiences 85% growth in North America

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Highdeal, the world leader in pricing & rating, is announcing a highly successful 2005 in the North American market, capped by 85% growth in license revenues. During this period of extraordinary growth, the company also achieved a major milestone: Highdeal achieved profitability both within the region and globally. [Read more…]

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