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( BW)(MA-LOGICA) Logica Provides Leading Customer Care and Billing Solution for AirTouch
Satellite Services
Business/Technology Editors
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999--
( BW)(MA-LOGICA) Logica Provides Leading Customer Care and Billing Solution for AirTouch
Satellite Services
Business/Technology Editors
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999--
Solution to service the delivery of pioneering satellite
communications systems via Globalstar in North America
Logica today announced a multi-million dollar contract to provide an integrated customer care and billing solution for AirTouch
Satellite Services, Inc. (ATSS), a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications, Inc. (NYSE:ATI). Logica's solution will provide ATSS's
Globalstar customers with customer care and billing services.
ATSS is a Founding Service Provider of Globalstar L.P, a dynamic consortium of international telecommunications service
providers and equipment manufacturers dedicated to providing high quality, affordable, voice, fax, and data services via a small
handheld phone. In late 1999, Globalstar service will be available throughout North America. Globalstar Canada, the service provider
in Canada, is a joint venture with ATSS, Loral Space & Communications Ltd. (Loral) and Canadian Satellite Communications Inc.
ATSS and Loral joined Telefonica Autrey S.A. de C.V. to create Globalstar de Mexico, the service provider in Mexico. In the United
States, ATSS will be responsible for marketing and distributing Globalstar service.
Logica's customer care and billing solution is comprised of BSCS (Business Support & Control System), a billing product provided
by its partner LHS Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHSG), and Comptel's (Oy Comptel Ab) MDS/SAS mediation device. Logica will act as
the master systems integrator, managing all partners and products involved in the project. The core component systems will be
developed, tested, and deployed from the company's recently opened Solutions Center in San Francisco, CA. Logica's Solutions
Center provides clients with state-of-the-art information technology solutions, offering a showcase for best-of-breed products and
partners, and allowing for the rapid development, deployment, and support of new applications.
"This customer care and billing solution is critically important to achieving our business objectives," confirmed Mike Kerr, Vice
President and General Manager of ATSS. "The solution that Logica is providing from its Solutions Center will enable our distribution
channels and customer care centers to provide the same world-class customer support as we do in our cellular and paging businesses."
"This project is extremely important for Logica," stated Mike Maloney, executive vice president, communications, for Logica. "It
demonstrates our global leadership in partnering with clients to deliver value to their customers. We look forward to developing our
relationship with ATSS and Globalstar as they continue to provide innovative and differentiating services to the market."
"Our relationship with ATSS is key to our continued success in providing repeatable business solutions globally," commented Corey
V. Torrence, President and CEO of Logica Inc. "We are pleased to partner with ATSS to ensure that they rapidly achieve and sustain
a competitive market position."
About AirTouch
AirTouch Satellite Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications, Inc. (NYSE:ATI), the largest wireless company in
the world based on the 44 million customers served by its global ventures. AirTouch has 19 million proportionate customers based on
its ownership share in cellular, paging, and PCS in the United States, Belgium, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, South Korea, Spain and Sweden. AirTouch also has an interest in the Globalstar satellite system and Globalstar service
provider rights in North America and the Caribbean.
About Globalstar
Globalstar, led by founding partner Loral Space & Communications, is a partnership of the world's leading telecommunications
service providers and equipment manufacturers, including Qualcomm Incorporated, AirTouch Communications, Alcatel, Alenia, China
Telecom (HK), DACOM, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Elsacom (a Finmeccanica Company), France Telecom, Hyundai, Space
Systems/Loral and Vodafone.
About Logica
Logica is a leading provider of business engineered, content-rich solutions primarily for the Energy & Utilities, Telecommunications,
Financial Services and Automotive markets. The company's expertise is in systems integration, consulting, products and core process
out-tasking/applications management. In collaboration with its partners around the world, Logica helps its clients achieve sustainable,
profitable growth, by maximizing the value of their core assets. Logica's success is driven by its people, and is delivered through
focused industry, process and application expertise enabled by technology. The company offers its products and services through
innovative, flexible business partnerships and measures its success by the impact it has on its clients' results.
With its North American headquarters in Lexington, MA, Logica has over 850 staff based in North America and offices in Atlanta,
Dearborn, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, New York, Oakland, Orlando, San Francisco, St. Louis,
Toronto, Washington D.C., and Williamsburg.
Logica plc was founded in London in 1969 and now has offices in 23 countries and 8,000 employees worldwide. Today Logica is
a leading international computer consultancy, systems integration and software company with clients across diverse markets including
finance, telecommunications, energy and utilities, industry, government, defense, transport and space. For the fiscal year ended June
1998, Logica's revenue was $790 million ((pound)473 million).
Logica's home page can be found at logica.com.
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CONTACT: Logica
Karen Nelson, 617/476-8117
nelsonk@logica.com
or
AirTouch Satellite Services
Gina Sponzilli, 925/988-4512
gina.sponzilli@airtouch.com
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