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To: Loki who wrote (60500)	5/5/1999 9:39:00 AM
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To: Loki who wrote (60500)	5/5/1999 9:42:00 AM
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USHA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND COMPAQ ANNOUNCE WORLD-WIDE AG Business Wire May 5, 1999, 6:03 a.m. PT reement for Telecom Billing & Customer Care Business Editors PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1999--Usha Communications Technology and Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday announced that they have signed a comprehensive world-wide solution development and marketing agreement to provide Billing and Customer Care, Mediation and Provisioning software on Compaq hardware as an integrated solution directed squarely at the emerging telecommunications carrier market. The agreement provides for joint sales and marketing of Usha Communications Technology Billing and Customer Care, as well as the Mediation and Provisioning Products on a global basis. "Usha Communications' feature-rich software running on Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r), coupled with the advanced hardware technology of Compaq(r) Proliant Series, provides economic scalability not available until now," said James Latham, EVP of Global Marketing for Usha Communications Technology. "Emergent operators, resellers, and those up-and-coming telecom providers are now able to compete very effectively with the incumbent and large carriers. Features such as Usha Communications' Internet Customer Care allow these Tier Three operators significant competitive advantage by providing web self-care and other facilities subscribers desire." Laura Macias, director, BSS Segment, Communications Industry Solutions for Compaq added: "New entrant communications providers represent an exciting and significant new focus for Compaq. Having just completed a significant series of performance characterizations in our laboratory, we feel confident advocating these solutions to our customers. Our engineers were excited to find the breath of capability, precision, and performance available in such a complete billing and customer care software product, with the level of world-wide support offered by Usha Comm and Compaq." Usha Communications Technology offers a comprehensive portfolio of Operations Support Systems (OSS) for established second and third-tier telecommunications operators around the world. Usha Comm pioneered a product line based on their unique Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r)-to-Unix scalable platform, resulting in a new level of price/performance for telecom operations having from one to one million subscribers. In addition, Usha Comm maintains a consulting services group capable of rapid design and deployment of customized solutions. Headquartered in Portland, Usha Comm has sales and customer support offices spanning five continents and development centers located in Calcutta and Bangalore, India. Microsoft(r) and Windows NT(r) are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corp. Other company and/or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations sn