The journey with MediationZone® at T-Mobile Macedonia started in mid 2008. Number portability was to be introduced and required a major re-design of the existing mediation streams. There was also a need for new mediation functionality in order to introduce 3G and a triple play service branded as Family+.  Given that the legacy mediation systems were inflexible and difficult to use, a new solution was needed to meet the projected timelines.

As a part of the selection processes for a new mediation platform, T-Mobile invited three vendors including DigitalRoute to provide a proof-of-concept demonstration.  “Flexibility, ease of deployment and performance were the most important factors to us and we were very impressed with MediationZone.  We were able to handle massive volumes on commodity hardware while the requirements for the proof-of-concept could be achieved in a few hours”, said Dragan Stankovski, System Integration Team Leader at T-Mobile. “With MediationZone we can complete in days what would otherwise take weeks or months”, he added.

The proof-of-concept was followed by a two-phase implementation program of MediationZone. The first phase covered the specific requirements related to number portability, WCDMA and Family+. In a second phase T-Mobile Macedonia replaced six legacy mediation systems with MediationZone.  This simplification of the mediation environment not only reduced the data integrations cost for T-Mobile but greatly reduced the complexity of the operations and the launching of new services.

“MediationZone is definitely among the best performing systems that we have and it is strategically one of the most important systems when it comes to decreasing time-to-market for new services”, said Mine Pavlovski, Executive Director of IT.

“I am seeing Mediation Zone as a crucial component in our IT infrastructure, compliant with all our plans for consolidation of IT systems in both fix and mobile lines of business. It’s a promising system, fully compliant with our Next Generation development program”, said Miroslav Jovanovic, Chief IT Officer.

Encouraged by the success with MediationZone, T-Mobile Macedonia is planning to further extend the use of MediationZone in several new projects including a converged operations environment for fixed and mobile networks and using mediation as a solution enabler for prepaid refill, integrating the point-of-sales platform with the real-time charging system.

“When we saw MediationZone, the first thing that I liked about it was its flexibility and powerful set of functionalities. What I can say from today’s perspective, after two years having Mediation Zone in our IT infrastructure is that it completely proves my first impression. That is the main reason why we plan to consolidate and migrate several other systems like mPayment and eRecharge in Mediation Zone platform and to start using it in high availability mode”, said Kristijan Kolev, Deputy Director for Rating, Billing and Payment.

“We are very proud of T-Mobile Macedonia’s decision to choose DigitalRoute’s MediationZone”, said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute, “I encourage any service provider to contact us for an estimate of how much we can improve time-to-market for new services and reduce the cost-of-ownership for mediation”, he adds.

About T-Mobile Macedonia

Т-Mobile is the first mobile operator in Macedonia and a leader in the mobile market. The company has been active since September 1996. In 2006 the company was re-named into Т-Mobile Macedonia, becoming part of the international Т-Mobile family. The confidence of more than 1 300 000 subscribers in Macedonia, confirms our leading position and obliges us to continue our mission – to become the most highly regarded service company. We are proud of our network quality, which we continuously upgrade to provide high quality and affordable services. Our network covers 99.9% of the population and over 99% of the territory of the Republic of Macedonia.

In Macedonia T-Mobile is recognized as the innovation leader. The company was first to introduce GPRS and EDGE thus significantly increasing the data transfer speed. By following T-Mobile service strategy, we are seeking converged internet and mobile services. Т-Mobile customers can communicate all over the world, using our roaming service offered in over 90 countries.

About DigitalRoute

DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 180 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, today announced new appointments to the company’s management team.

DigitalRoute, with its Headquarters in Stockholm, has recently performed some structural changes to adapt to the rapid growth of the company; approximately 50 percent annual revenue growth since 2005.

In response to a growing global demand for truly converged mediation capabilities DigitalRoute has created three regional units. These units further strengthen DigitalRoute’s global presence whilst enabling the specific regional needs of our customers to be met.

Christopher Grahn has been appointed General Manager of the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa unit that is led from DigitalRoute’s Regional Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to joining DigitalRoute, Christopher held the position of CEO at TagMaster AB (publ.). Christopher’s background includes a position as CEO at Ascade, President of Pointsec Wireless Solutions AB and several years as a strategy consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Stephen Rickaby has been appointed General Manager of the Americas unit. The unit is based in its Americas Regional Headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. Prior to joining DigitalRoute Stephen held the position of Vice President of Product Management at Intec Billing and was responsible for the strategy and direction of Intec’s Mediation Product Line. Stephen has also held OSS/BSS management positions at both Computer Generation Inc. and Sema Group Systems Limited.

Kari Miettinen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at DigitalRoute has been appointed General Manager of the European unit. Kari has a ten years experience from the mediation space and has held senior positions at Comptel Corporation prior to joining DigitalRoute.

“DigitalRoute is growing rapidly and the new appointments are results of our transformation into a truly global organization with a stronger local presence. However, our one product focus will remain unchanged” said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute.

About DigitalRoute

DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 180 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, today announced that one of its partners has deployed a MediationZone based Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) solution at one of the world’s largest communication service providers.

The Policy and Charging Rules Function is specified by the 3GPP standards and enables operators to control and manage the network and charge for services in a customer-centric manner. The market for PCRF is hitting a high point due the explosive growth of mobile internet usage in combination with very disparate bandwidth requirements for different services and user segments.

The service providers’ flat-rate tariff plans in combination with the wealth of new mobile data applications are some of the reasons for the current growth in usage.  As capacity requirement s rapidly increases while pressure on profitability remains; service providers are looking to policy control solutions in order to monetize the usage growth and capitalize on their investment in network infrastructure. Among a wide set of business applications, a policy control solution enables the service providers to create tiered service offerings based on volume and bandwidth.

DigitalRoute’s online mediation platform is perfectly suited for a PCRF deployment for several reasons:

• Technical synergies between the Online Charging System (OCS)  and PCRF functions in the 3GPP standards
• Support for interfaces based on 3GPP’s Diameter standard
• Real-time transaction management
• Requirements for the same uptime and availability as the network
• Flexibility through configuration

“Profitability and Quality of Service is the main driver for policy control”, said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute. “MediationZone’s PCRF capabilities opens up a whole new range of possibilities that vertical integration platforms cannot provide”, he adds.

About DigitalRoute

DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 180 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, en oberoende programvaruleverantör tar täten bland telekomföretagen på 2010 års tillväxtlista från Ahrens.

Ahrens Tillväxtlista lyfter fram snabbväxande företag som växer kontinuerligt med bibehållen lönsamhet och som därmed bidrar till näringslivets förnyelse. För att tas upp på tillväxtlistan måste företag kunna uppvisa en stabil och uthållig tillväxt samt en substantiell omsättning. Företagen måste även ha verksamheten förankrad till Sverige och vara oberoende från enskilda kunder och koncerner.

DigitalRoute placerar sig som nummer 20 på Ahrens Rapid Growths tillväxtlista och är rankad som nummer två bland de företag som har verksamheten inriktad på telekom.

Det antal företag som uppfyller de hårda kraven för en placering på 2010 års lista är 68 stycken jämfört med föregående års 90 stycken.

Bakom framtagandet av Tillväxtlistan ligger inte någon bedömning av företagens tillväxtpotential. Listan är en ögonblicksbild baserad på historisk information från 2003-2009. Kriterierna är utformade så att det inte finns utrymme för subjektiva bedömningar.

Sedan 2006 har DigitalRoute haft en årlig omsättningstillväxt på drygt 50 procent, vilket motsvarar mer än femfaldigade intäkter på fyra år. Jämfört med 2002 så har DigitalRoutes tillväxt ökat mer än 26 gånger.

Oberoende av den rådande lågkonjukturen så står dagens mobiloperatörer inför utmaningen att hantera kraftigt ökade kostnader för datatrafik i näten. Detta sker samtidigt som intäkterna per slutkund mattas av på redan mättade marknader. Utvecklingen har gynnat DigitalRoute som kan erbjuda lösningar som kraftigt reducerar operatörernas kostnader för dataintegration. Företaget har även kunnat växa tack vare att tekniken som ligger till grund för verksamheten ständigt hittar nya användningsområden hos kunderna.

“Allt fler operatörer väljer att förenkla sin arkitektur för dataintegration och vi kan erbjuda bättre kapacitet och funktionalitet med en bråkdel av hårdvaran för de system som vi ersätter.”, säger Jan Karlsson, VD för DigitalRoute

DigitalRoutes egenutvecklade produkt MediationZone® finns idag installerad hos över 180 operatörer i 90 länder. Listan med operatörer ökade med 55 stycken enbart under 2009.

“Vi är stolta över att vara med på Ahrens tillväxtlista samtidigt som våra konkurrenter visar en allt svagare utveckling.”, säger Jan Karlsson.

Om Digital Route AB
DigitalRoute, grundat år 2000, är ett privatägt svenskt bolag och har sitt huvudkontor i Stockholm. DigitalRoute bedriver försäljning av produkter och konsulttjänster inom telekommunikationsbranschen. DigitalRoute grundades med en vision att revolutionera marknaden för mediationsystem, genom att tillhandahålla en produkt som är kapabel att möta telekomoperatörernas komplexa och föränderliga krav, samtidigt som dess implementering och drift görs mycket enklare och därmed billigare. För mer information, se www.digitalroute.com

Om Ahrens Rapid Growth
Ahrens Rapid Growth är konsulter i tillväxt. Ahrens specialitet är att hjälpa sina kunder, oavsett bransch, att växa med LUST, det vill säga lönsam, uthållig snabb tillväxt. Genom konsultinsatser från sökning av nya tillväxtaffärer till genomförande i praktisk handling arbetar Ahrens med företagens tillväxt. Ahrens har 20 års erfarenhet av vad företag gör annorlunda för att uppnå tillväxt. Verksamheten bygger på kunskap som förvärvats genom forskning och arbete i hundratals tillväxtföretag sedan 1987.

Kontaktinformation

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, an independent software vendor, is positioned among the top Swedish telecom companies on Ahrens’ growth ranking list for 2010.

Ahrens’ growth ranking list highlights companies with continuous growth while maintaining profitability thereby contributing to the vitality of the Swedish business community. In order to qualify, companies must demonstrate stable growth and substantial turnover. The companies must also have their base of the operations located in Sweden and must be independent from individual customers or groups.DigitalRoute’s goal with the user group meetings is to create an interactive environment to exchange experiences, share best practices, and contribute to the future evolution of MediationZone®.

DigitalRoute is placed among the top 20 companies on Ahrens’ growth ranking list and placed number two among the companies in the telecoms market.

There are 68 companies that fulfill the strict qualification requirements in 2010 compared to 90 in the previous year.

The potential growth capacity of the companies is not considered in the evaluation of the candidate companies. The list is based on historical information from 2003-2009. The selection criteria are designed to eliminate subjective assessments.

Since 2006, DigitalRoute has experienced an annual turnover growth of more than 50 percent, which is equivalent of a fivefold revenue increase over four years. Compared to 2002, DigitalRoute’s turnover has increased more than 26 times.

In addition to the prevailing recession, mobile operators are facing the challenge of rapidly increasing costs for handling network data traffic. At the same time, the revenues for the end-customers are declining on saturated markets. These developments have presented opportunities for DigitalRoute’s solutions that drastically reduce the operators’ cost for data integration. DigitalRoute has also found new areas of usage for their technology with customers’ operations; enabling further growth.

“An increasing number of operators are choosing to simplify their architecture for data integration and we can offer better capacity and functionality for a fraction of the hardware costs required for the systems that we are replacing”, said Jan Karlsson, CEO at DigitalRoute.

DigitalRoute has developed the MediationZone® product which is installed at over 180 operators in 90 countries. The list of operators grew by 55 during 2009 alone.

“We are proud to be listed by Ahrens while our competitors’ revenue is declining”, said Jan Karlssson.

About DigitalRoute
DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 180 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, today announced the successful completion of the third User Group Meeting which was held in Stockholm on May 17-18.

DigitalRoute’s goal with the user group meetings is to create an interactive environment to exchange experiences, share best practices, and contribute to the future evolution of MediationZone®.

This user group meeting had a strong focus on cost reduction for the communication service providers. As the cost of managing the mobile data traffic is outpacing the revenue growth in the market, communication service providers are actively looking for ways to reduce IT spending. Simplification of the data integration architecture and improved cost/performance are some of the key areas that must be addressed.

MediationZone provides a compelling case for replacing not just the legacy mediation systems in the BSS domain but also for replacing integration applications for OSS, Business Intelligence and Policy Control. With the implementation of a single Horizontal Mediation layer across multiple vertical applications, communication service providers can dramatically reduce the OPEX and CAPEX costs for data integration.

New and novel usage areas for MediationZone were also demonstrated by DigitalRoute’s partners at the user group meeting. “It is part of our strategy to enable our customers and partners to be fully self-sufficient. It is clear that this works as a catalyst for innovation”, said Jan Karlsson, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalRoute.

The event hosted participants representing 33 different communication service providers, software vendors and system integration companies. ”Our channel strategy with value added reseller and OEM agreements in combination with direct sales, lays a foundation for a diverse and thriving eco-system of industry professionals. This is one of the many factors that are contributing to our success and it fuels the rapid evolution of our product”, said Jan Karlsson

About DigitalRoute
DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 180 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)10 7079 000
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, today announced an agreement with Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances.

The agreement facilitates the integration of Netezza’s TwinFin data warehouse solutions with DigitalRoute’s market leading MediationZone® product.

The Netezza® TwinFin™ appliance is a proven solution to the rising costs and complexity of data warehousing and analytics. Netezza’s hallmark performance is achieved through its patented software streaming architecture and a set of database accelerators that are seamlessly integrated with blade servers.

DigitalRoute’s MediationZone complements Netezza’s offerings by providing a single data acquisition layer, delivering customers flexible data access and self-sufficiency. With MediationZone, service providers can consolidate all mediation requirements and provide flexible data integration and loading capabilities for efficient data management. It empowers service providers to rapidly address new demands with very short turnaround times.

“In an increasingly competitive industry, it’s vital that communication providers are able to operate efficiently under the complexity and diversity of multi-vendor and multi-technology networks,” said John Gillespie, general manager and vice president of telecommunications at Netezza. “Working with DigitalRoute creates a united offering to help telecommunications providers run their business at the highest levels of efficiency and performance.”

“Netezza has revolutionized the data warehouse and analytics appliances market with its processing- and data transformation capabilities. The combination of our products adds unmatched flexibility and performance end-to-end.”, said Jan Karlson, CEO at DigitalRoute.

About DigitalRoute
DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 170 MediationZone® deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic and monitoring appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s data-intensive industries, including digital media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

Netezza®, and TwinFin™ are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact:

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)8 579 950 00
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

Netezza Corporation:
Glen Zimmerman
Phone: +1 508 382 8267
email: gzimmerman@netezza.com

T-mobile, known for its concise magenta-colored logo, has searched for a central and flexible billing mediation platform for five countries in order to improve its competitive position on the mobile operations market. NEWCON Ltd. has scored with the Next Generation Mediation Technology from DigitalRoute: software-license and implementation of Mediation Zone 5. The Next Generation International Billing Mediation Device (ngiBMD) has been implemented with a target to reduce the total cost of ownership for billing mediation service by 20% for the 5 countries together. Thanks to NEWCON’s long-time experience as service integrator, the major lines of business including GSM, SMS and GPRS were launched in production within 6 months since project start.

“The secret recipe behind DigitalRoute’s success is a combination of a strict focus on mediation and data integration, a focus on product sales as opposed to services sales, and an effective go-to-market strategy. With our 18 OEM partners, system integration partners and own sales forces we are reaching the market in a superior way. While we focus on the superior product we let our partners focus on their core businesses. This has proven to be a successful value proposal for customers.” said Kari Miettinen, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at DigitalRoute.

T-mobile is the brand for the mobile phone sector of Deutsche Telekom AG. 150 million customers are phoning in Germany, the foreign European countries and the USA currently. The mobile phone market is one of the most dynamic sectors in many countries. T-Mobile has contributed to this development with innovative ideas and is considered worldwide as one of the pacesetters of future-oriented technologies as GPRS, UMTS (3G) or wireless internet access via W-LAN. T-Mobile was the first supplier in Europe who provided open access to the internet for its customers so that they can make use of increasing variety of offers of news, films, music and infotainment.

T-Mobile Austria is a fully-owned subsidiary and generated a turnover of 1.08 billion Euros with only about 1500 employees. The tariffs were constantly developed in the strongly competitive Austrian environment and individually adapted to the consumer behavior. Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Netherlands are fully-owned subsidiaries beside Austria and they care together for approx. 70 million mobile phone customers.

Project target: next generation billing mediation system to improve the competitive position
- Out of date technologies influenced the performance of the systems as well as the time to market (time needed to realize new demands). New services and products were difficult to implement and expensive hardware was needed to mitigate increasing traffic data volumes. The outcome of this was the following requirements for a project:
- Improvement of time to market: fast reactions to changed functionalities of network elements should be possible. New services and products should permanently and easily be offered alike.
- Next generation international Billing Mediation Device (ngiBMD): the total traffic data for Voice, SMS and Data generated by the network should be processed by a single system.
- The mediation (transmission of data) between the network and the processing unit should be provided centrally as a service for all 5 countries (the fully-owned subsidiaries).
- Development and Maintenance should be provided by internal common unit “Competence Center Mediation” (CCM) of T-Mobile International.
The system should be deployed in a Group common Datacenter and operated by T-Systems Enterprise Services.

Why NEWCON & DigitalRoute: future-oriented technology and experience for the implementation
After a one-year intensive vendor selection process NEWCON was invited for the project in April 2009. The offer was submitted by a syndicate:
- DigitalRoute for MediationZone® core technology
- NEWCON for system integration
DigitalRoute, a Swedish software company and leading provider of mediation- and data integration software, has been with its product MediationZone® a worldwide technology-leader within its sector for years.
Main drivers for the decision to involve NEWCON in this project:
- Long-time experience which T-Mobile Austria could gain with NEWCON as service integrator
- The future-oriented choice of Next Generation Mediation Technology. As T-Mobile was used to managing different suppliers, systems and responsibilities the first move was made to operate everything from one source: there should only be 1 software, 1 hardware-environment, 1 service partner and 1 license for the implementation of the discussed data preparation regarding the three areas IT, Network and Finance/Controlling.

Joachim Heybrock, VP Shared IT Enablers, confirms: “Due to the fact that we can hardly influence the revenue side we must increasingly see to the expenditures. NEWCON is an innovative and efficient partner who looks ahead, together with technology expert knowledge and implementation competence. Because of the proven know-how which extends over several years as well as the convincing savings potential of the Next Generation Mediation Technology we decided to assign the syndicate of the two technology partners DigitalRoute and NEWCON.”

Used technologies
The core technology is DigitalRoutes MediationZone® to retrieve mass data in telecommunication business, to convert and process it. Every phone call, SMS or internet access of every customer on the domestic market or abroad is registered and evaluated. MediationZone® and the relevant modules developed by NEWCON enable T-Mobile to manage the commercial and technical sector with one system. As MediationZone® is a completely Java-based solution it is hardware independent. At T-Mobile two Intel-based servers configured in stretched cluster are used to guarantee system stability. As all turnover- and revenue relevant transactions are processed by these servers, MediationZone® has the highest standard of security, system stability and SOX compliance as far as the solution design is concerned.

MediationZone® is compatible with all current data bases (Oracle or Open source) and operating systems; hence it does not require any third party software. Christoph Mazakarini, CTO NEWCON and project leader for T-Mobile accounts for the advantages: “The two servers which we need for complete operation cost 25,000 US-dollars per item. This leads to reduction of CPU cost by 50% with remarkably better performance at the same time.”

Course of the project: short lead time, support on-site
The project start was in Austria in May 2009, the project steps were geared to the “line of business”. First of all the migration of SMS-services was effected followed by data services. About 2/3 of the functionalities are productive at present, all lines should be productive by the end of January 2010. The roll-out for the next four countries will partly be conducted at the same time. Parallel to this the platform for the operation of the data processing centre was installed in common Datacenter as well as the Software MediationZone® at Competence Center Mediation in Prague. Up to 12 experts from NEWCON are working on the implementation, partly on site at the customer’s premises. The location of Vienna offers advantage of proximity to T-Mobile Austria and CCM in Prague too.

Milos Cimoradsky, Senior Head of Competence Center Mediation in T-Mobile International confirms: “The personal contact is crucial for the co-operation; it helps the experts from T-Mobile and NEWCON to solve issues more efficiently than per e-mails and allows for faster implementation. NEWCON experts proved to be highly flexible and technically skilled.” Change Requests are often implemented within 2-3 days. The know-how is transferred from NEWCON to T-Mobile by a three-stage training: training for the correct operation of the data processing centre, developer training at Competence Center and hands-on training by co-operating on site.

Benefit
The project is still in the implementation phase, however it is absolutely clear for T-Mobile to see that the demands are met and thus the desired benefit can be achieved:
Modifications concerning the active business as new tariffs can be implemented within few man-days. This improves competitive position of T-Mobile noticeably as more flexible models can be offered to the end-consumer.
The new platform brings remarkable increase in performance of transmission time. Tests have shown an improvement of factor 3.5, as well as a remarkable decrease in CPU cost.
The solution from one partner allows sustainable cost reduction. T-Mobile is able to save costs to compensate for the decreasing revenue relevant ARPU (average revenue per user).

Jan Karlsson, CEO DigitalRoute, is very proud of his new customer: “The conclusion of the contract with T-Mobile International is a milestone on our way to market leadership on the mediation market. We are proud that the close partnership with NEWCON has developed successfully and are perfectly convinced that we will celebrate further mutual success in future.”

Gerald Haidl, CEO NEWCON, sums up: “We are a partner for T-Mobile who proves competence on two levels: strategy and implementation – that means we support our customers from management consulting to service integration. We are aware of the needs of IT, Technology, Sales and Finance. Only with this overall view we are able to meet the objectives of an international major customer as DTAG/T-Mobile.”

About DigitalRoute
DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. MediationZone® from DigitalRoute supports any combination of online/offline and active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 150 MediationZone® deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information can be found at www.digitalroute.com

About NEWCON
NEWCON has a clear and unique selling point at the international market of service integration and management consulting: NEWCON covers the whole value chain for their clients in the enterprise area. Beginning with the top-level management (strategy) consulting NEWCON offers service integration up to outsourcing of total applications. Therefore strategies are implemented effective and under full responsibility by NEWCON. NEWCON offers those services because the whole management team and many of the employees for years have been working as executives in IT, telecommunication and utilities. The whole NEWCON team consists of professional consultants who have long-time experience in their field and are well-know experts in their subject areas.

For more information, please contact:

NEWCON GmbH:
Gerald Haidl
Tech Gate, Donau-City-Straβe 1
A-1220 Vienna
Tel +43 1/26 99 004
Fax +43 1/26 99 007
Email: office@newcon.at
www.newcon.at

Digital Route AB:
Joakim Sahlgren
Marketing Manager
Digital Route AB, Skeppsbron 34, 111 30 Stockholm
Phone: +46 (0)8 579 950 00
Email: joakim.sahlgren@digitalroute.com

The Swedish private equity firm Neqst becomes the new majority owner of DigitalRoute, an independent software vendor to the telecom industry, through an increase in its shareholding to 89 percent. This was achieved by acquiring Frontiers Capital’s and Tempo Capital Partners’ holdings in DigitalRoute, totaling 66 percent. Through its increased ownership, Neqst plans to continue its focus on fast and profitable growth for DigitalRoute.

DigitalRoute has expanded rapidly over the last few years and has won several important projects with its software, which helps telecom operators to charge for their services.

DigitalRoute has seen an annual revenue growth of 50 percent since 2006, which is equivalent to a more than fivefold increase in four years. At the same time, the company has generated a positive cash flow. Turnover for 2009 amounted to 118 million SEK.DigitalRoute has seen an annual revenue growth of 50 percent since 2006, which is equivalent to a more than fivefold increase in four years. At the same time, the company has generated a positive cash flow. Turnover for 2009 amounted to 118 million SEK.

“We at DigitalRoute and Neqst share the same view – that we will prioritize global growth in order to take advantage of our software’s technical leadership,” says Jan Karlsson, CEO of DigitalRoute

Today, MediationZone® is deployed at 170 customers in 78 countries, with 50 new customers added in 2009. DigitalRoute has more than 100 employees, of which 75 are based in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

“DigitalRoute directly originates from our Swedish telecoms tradition. We believe that the company can maintain its rapid pace of expansion for many years ahead, since our software has such a strong advantage in terms of technology and cost-efficiency. This has become more and more obvious to customers in the telecommunications industry around the world,” says Erik Fröberg, partner at Neqst and chairman of the board of DigitalRoute.

For more information, please contact:
Erik Fröberg, partner at Neqst, telephone +46 708 837788

Det svenska riskkapitalbolaget Neqst blir ny huvudägare i DigitalRoute – som är programvaruleverantör till telekombranschen – genom att öka sitt ägande till 89 procent. Det sker genom förvärv av Frontiers Capitals och Tempo Capital Partners innehav i DigitalRoute, på sammanlagt 66 procent. Neqst vill genom sitt stärkta ägande fortsätta fokusera på en snabb och lönsam expansion för DigitalRoute.

DigitalRoute har de senaste åren haft en kraftig tillväxt och vunnit flera viktiga upphandlingar för sin programvara som hjälper telekomoperatörer med debitering av sina tjänster.

Sedan 2006 har DigitalRoute haft en årlig omsättningstillväxt på drygt 50 procent, vilket motsvarar mer än femfaldigade intäkter på fyra år. Bolaget har samtidigt genererat ett positivt kassaflöde. För 2009 uppgick den årliga omsättningen till 118 miljoner kronor.

– Vi på DigitalRoute och Neqst har samma bild av att vi ska prioritera global tillväxt maximalt för att ta tillvara det tekniska försprång vi har i vår mjukvara, säger Jan Karlsson, VD för DigitalRoute.

I dag finns MediationZone installerad hos 170 kunder i 78 länder, varav 50 nya kunder adderades bara under 2009. DigitalRoute har drygt 100 anställda, varav 75 i Stockholm och Göteborg.

– DigitalRoute är ett direkt sprunget ur våra svenska traditioner av telekom. Vi ser att bolaget kan bibehålla sin mycket snabba tillväxttakt många år framöver eftersom vår programvara har ett så stort försprång både vad gäller teknik och kostnadseffektivitet, vilket blivit allt mer uppenbart för kunderna som finns världen över i telekombranschen, säger Erik Fröberg, partner i Neqst och styrelseordförande i DigitalRoute.

För ytterligare information kontakta:

Erik Fröberg, partner i Neqst, telefon 0708-837788