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CALLING CARDS February 15 · 2008 - 18 Calling Cards in Brief BillSoft, Inc., a provider of transaction products and sevices, has announced that Globalcom, Inc., a voice and data network provider, has selected BillSoft’s EZTax product line to tax their communications services and manage their taxation requirements. EZTax will integrate into Globalcom’s billing operations to provide a real-time billing and taxing platform. In addition to EZTax for tax calculation, Globalcom has implemented EZTax Viewer and EZTax Bundler. The Viewer is a tax reference tool that includes all the latest tax rate information for every jurisdiction in the United States and other countries. The Bundler is a tool that allows EZTax customers to accurately tax multiple items that are sold as a bundled product offering. Globalcom - www.callglobalcom.com BillSoft – www.billsoft.com Pactolus Goes Live at Cable MSO New Prepaid Service Integrates With MSO’s Services MARLBOROUGH, MA (February 5, 2008) PacThe MSO selected the RapidFLEX SDP for its tolus Communications, makers of SIP applica- scale: the IP services platform automatically, tions and service creation/delivery solutions, transparently integrates key functions critical has been selected by a major US telecom media to sustaining call states, such as 1+1 and N+1 and entertainment company. The MSO, own- server redundacy schemes that incorporate ers of one of the nation’s largest cable clusters, sophisticated component failover logic. The selected Pactolus’ RapidFLEX Service Creation RapidFLEX SDP helped ensure that the newlyand Delivery Platform and SIPware Prepaid created service would immediately and effecCalling to provide its millions of telecom ser- tively perform as needed. vice customers with new calling options, feaUsing the RapidFLEX Service Creation Envitures and economics. ronment’s (SCE’s) developer tool suite, the new In order to expand and further differentiate prepaid service was easily integrated with The its branded triple-play services and support MSO’s proprietary core VoBB service, and the a broadening customer base, the MSO had to creation of custom features such as automatic quickly add new demographically-customized subscriber authentication was simplified. prepaid calling capabilities to its telecom prodPactolus CTO and Founder David Horton uct portfolio, and fully integrate the new ser- summarizes: “We are committed to enabling vice with its custom core VoBB service. even the largest service providers and MSOs to Yankee Group analyst Brian Partridge ob- quickly, effectively integrate new service prodserves: “In this particular case, the MSO faced ucts into their unique existing service portfoa significant challenge: its telecom services lios. Most importantly, we help them ensure penetration and subscriber take rates required – from day 1 – that their new services deliver that the new service be immediately capable the scalability, performance and dependability of processing a massive number of calls. The to meet their most aggressive and optimistic customer determined to mitigate the risks of subscriber demand estimates.” a new service launch to its installed base, and sought to create and integrate a solution that Source: Pactolus Communications Software (www.pactolus.com) would readily scale upon launch.” solve this problem with the Ignite Application Session Controller (ASC) version 8.0. Ignite 8.0 delivers Intelligent Network – Service Capability Server (IN-SCS) functionality that enables service providers to bridge the gap by ensuring their existing voice-centric IN applications, such as prepaid and voice messaging, are able to work within the IMS networks. The company says service providers will experience CAPEX savings as they no longer need to re-write or re-purchase these IN applications. AppTrigger - www.apptrigger.com Voiceserve, Inc., a UK-based company targeting resellers and end users with VoIP and Pay As You Go services, has won its first contract selling termination minutes to a major European Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration (PTT). Voiceserve can now partake in the global exchange of minutes on the wholesale level, where trillions of minutes are traded annually. Management expects this will add to the company’s revenues and profitability. Voiceserve – www.voiceserve.com iBasis, a KPN affiliate, and TDC, a telecommunications company in Denmark, have reached an agreement that will make iBasis the exclusive provider of international voice services for TDC for a five-year period. iBasis will pay TDC approximately $10 million in cash, while the outsourcing arrangement is expected to generate approximately $80 million in new annual revenue for iBasis. TDC will become a preferred partner for terminating iBasis traffic into the Nordic region. Other financial details of the agreement are undisclosed. iBasis - www.ibasis.com China Voice Holding Corp.’s wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, StarCom Alliance, Inc., has signed an Exclusive Supplier Agreement with Power Prepaid Phone Card Distribution (Power Distribution), a distributor of prepaid cellular products, located in Fullerton, California. StarCom Alliance Inc., is a Master Distributor of prepaid and postpaid cellular/wireless products, discount prepaid calling cards and other telephony related products and services that enable users to call anywhere in the world at a discount. China Voice Holding Corp. - www.chvc.com As service provider networks continue to evolve and expand, business cases struggle to justify replacing large scale IN revenue producing applications. AppTrigger, a provider of application connectivity solutions, aims to Sapotek Partners with DigiLinea Global Wholesaler Called ‘Best-in-Class Data Price’ DORAL, FL (January 28, 2008) DigiLinea, a provider of telephony solutions over mobile networks to the US Hispanic and Latin American markets, has partnered with Sapotek, developer of open source web applications and services including the free online desktops Desktoptwo and Computadora.de, to integrate DigiLinea’s Voice 2.0 internet calling services into Computadora.de, the free online desktop developed by Sapotek specifically for Spanish-speaking users around the world. Sapotek will provide direct desktop access to DigiLinea’s calling services, thereby allowing all Computadora.de users to utilize Voice 2.0 calling services. Joshua Rand, CEO of Sapotek, said “The DigiLinea Voice 2.0 services are unique in that they are really easy to use, require no download, headsets or broadband internet connection and work from any phone in the world. They will allow us to integrate unique Voice 2.0 applications into our online communities and enable our many thousands of users to make free or ultra low cost telephone calls, locally or globally, by dialing from either their mobile phones or their computers. We’re certain that that the Computadora.de community will find this feature extremely attractive.” Source: DigiLinea (www.digilinea.com) Sapotek (http://computadora.de) http://www.apptrigger.com http://www.callglobalcom.com http://www.billsoft.com http://www.ibasis.com http://www.pactolus.com http://www.voiceserve.com http://www.chvc.com http://www.Computadora.de http://www.Computadora.de http://www.Computadora.de http://www.wcgltd.com http://www.Computadora.de http://www.digilinea.com http://www.wcgltd.com http://computadora.de

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The Prepaid Press - February 2008 Beachfront Property for Sale Cardholder Facing Systems Contents The Retske Report: Getting the Word Out 5 Minutes With Mark Flanagan, CEO of PrepaidWireless.com Regulatory Rundown: Mid-Winter Update 2008 Prepaid Wireless Handsets Consumer’s Union Raps Wireless Industry Prepaid Reviews Launches Canadian Website Maginpins and TúYo Mobile Form Alliance Prepaid Wireless in Brief Boost Mobile Introduces New $1/Day Chat Plan Mobile Voice to Overtake Fixed in Europe Prepaid Wireless Roundup Another Kind of Prepaid Calling Spot Rates VSNL Wins ATLANTIC-ACM Award The Legal Line Calling Cards in Brief Sapotek Partners with DigiLinea Pactolus Goes Live at Cable MSO Low-Income Market Initiatives to Drive Mobile Banking Payments in Brief Monitise Americas Expands Payments Network Charge Anywhere Mobile POS Wins Award Hypercom Introduces System for Small Merchants TIO Networks Announces TIO Prepaid MasterCard NPBCA Makes Leadership Change A Walk Down the Aisle Branding Your Retail Store Retailers Welcome Senate Approval of Stimulus Bill NRF Forecasts 3.5 Percent Growth in Retail Sales Cyphermint Teams With DHL Retail Focus in Brief Our Advertisers Contact Us

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