06-Mar-2007
- Movistar México Selects Evolving Systems Solution for Dynamic SIM Management
and Provisioning
- Win highlights Evolving Systems continued market penetration in Latin America
- Combined Tertio™ and NumeriTrack solution for Innovative SIM Management
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado Evolving Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-EVOL), a leading provider of software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline and IP carrier market, today announced that it has been selected by Movistar México, a subsidiary of Grupo Telefnica Mviles of Spain, to provide a solution for managing and provisioning universal Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM) Cards. This award marks Evolving Systems entry into the Mexican market, and is the second significant win with regional partner American Telecommunication, Inc. (ATI). Under the agreement Evolving Systems will provide the core solution technology and related technical services, and ATI will develop custom functionality and provide dedicated in-country support.
The solution, comprised of Evolving Systems Tertio™ provisioning platform and its International NumeriTrack number resource inventory platform, and ATIs SS7 Gateway, will enable Movistar to effectively manage its SIM Card inventory and to dynamically provision the SIMS and services in real-time when new subscribers enter the network. The solution is expected to provide Movistar significant cost savings associated with SIM inventory management efficiency and improve their end-customer experience by enabling subscriber self-provisioning.
Vicente Seoanne, Movistars Director of Value Added Services, said, After a thorough evaluation, Evolving Systems was selected together with ATI based on their technical superiority, delivery times and local support capabilities. We believe that Evolving Systems ability to provide us with a customized solution based on existing mature products will enable us to bring the solution into production quicker and at a lower risk than with other alternatives.
"In addition to being a significant win with one of Latin Americas most influential carriers, this contract represents an important milestone for Evolving Systems, said Thad Dupper, president of Evolving Systems. As part of this project we will be integrating our two flagship products Tertio and NumeriTrack providing Movistar with a unique set of benefits around SIM management that will help them reduce costs, build competitive advantage and improve customer service. Combining Tertio and NumeriTrack into a single solution has been an important goal since acquiring Tertio Telecoms in November of 2004.
We are very proud to have been selected in this important project together with Evolving Systems, said Luis Alberto Nuez, CEO of American Telcommunication, Inc. The combination of Evolving Systems technology and ATIs regional sales and support infrastructure and technical know-how provide an attractive value proposition to operators in the Market. We look forward to implementing this exciting project together with Evolving Systems.
Evolving Systems' NumeriTrack number management solution enables operators to store, assign, track and manage their telephone numbers for all services. It helps to improve customer service by providing a centralized, high performance system with instant access to accurate numbering. The NumeriTrack solution also helps to lower operational cost and effort by automating manual processes and integrating seamlessly with other OSS processes such as billing, activation and number portability. The solution provides extensive capabilities for forecasting, tracking and reporting number utilization to enable operators to manage their numbers proactively and meet any regulatory requirements.
Evolving Systems' Tertio™ service activation solution enables operators to replace legacy and custom built service activation solutions with a solution that can be cheaper and easier to operate. The solution helps operators manage growth by reducing the time to activate services, decreasing the number of errors, and lowering the cost of operations. The Tertio solution, which supports Linux as well as various commercial UNIX products, offers operators a cost-effective and scalable choice of hardware architectures. It also provides graphical tools to enable rapid service modeling, service assembly and service integration to speed up service rollout and make it simpler for carriers to use their own staff to maintain and enhance the system.
About Evolving Systems®
Evolving Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-EVOL) is a provider of software and services to
more than 50 network operators in over 30 countries worldwide. Its portfolio
includes market-leading products for Activation, Number Portability, Number
Inventory and Mediation. Founded in 1985, the Company has headquarters in Englewood,
Colorado, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India
and Malaysia. Further information is available on the web at www.evolving.com
About American Telecommunication,
Inc.
American Telecommunication, Inc. initiated its activities in 1980, and is headquartered
in Santiago, Chile. A value-added telecommunications integrator focused in
the Latin American region, ATI currently has offices in 9 countries in Latin
America and four offices in other parts of the world. It provides its customers
with world-class solutions from industry leading vendors, and supports them
locally 7x24 with its own engineering and support units. For more information
about ATI, please visit www.amtelusa.com.
About Telefnica Mviles
Telefnica Mviles provides mobile telephony activities for Grupo Telefnica
worldwide. Following its agreement to acquire the BellSouth operations
in Latin America, it is the second largest multinational player in the
mobile arena in the world, with approximately 72 million customers by June,
2004, and leader in the Latin American market, with around 51 million customers
in the region. Telefnica Mviles had net profits of 1,607.9 million Euros
in 2003. Telefnica Mviles is listed on the Spanish and New York Stock
Exchanges under TEM.
About Telefnica Mviles
México
Telefnica Mviles México, S.A. de C.V., is the operating affiliate of Grupo
Telefnica Mviles in México. It has 4.5 million subscribers throughout the entire
country and provides all its operations in México under the Telefnica Movistar
trademark. Telefnica Mviles México has been recognized with the Socially Responsible
Corporation Award for 2004 by the Mexican Philanthropy Center.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
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news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning
of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, based
on current expectations, estimates and projections that are subject to risk.
Specifically, Evolving Systems statements about the status of the Latin American
market, the ability of Evolving Systems solutions to handle future needs of
its customers and the impact of the contract described in this press release
are forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on
these forward-looking statements, and Evolving Systems may not undertake to
update these forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially
because of many factors, such as internal budgeting changes of customers; the
impact of competition and the general state of the telecommunications industry.
For a more extensive discussion of Evolving Systems business, please refer
to the Companys Form 10-K filed with the U.S. SEC on March 24, 2006, as well
as subsequently filed Forms 10-Q, 8-K and press releases.
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