Polkomtel selects Intec for major billing contract (Poland)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Intec, a global provider of business support systems (BSS) solutions, has announced a significant contract extension with Polkomtel, the operator behind Poland’s largest GSM network, PLUS, for Phase 2 of its NBS (New Billing System) project. In a multi-million Euro deal the contract involves the extension of Intec’s Convergent Billing solution (Singl.eView), to service Polkomtel’s post-paid customer base.

The announcement comes only twelve months after Polkomtel successfully went live with Intec’s Singl.eView platform for pre-paid subscribers. This deployment will enable Polkomtel to launch even more innovative, new products and services at a rapid rate, to both pre- and post-paid subscribers all on a single charging engine.

Since completion of Phase 1 Polkomtel has launched a number of unique new services including, for example, ‘Chill Bill’; subscribers receive a monthly account top-up, to spend on any Polkomtel 36.6 service tariff, in exchange for receiving three, one-and-a-half minute advertisements which they connect to via a freephone IVR number. Polkomtel is one of the first operators, worldwide, to have successfully launched a ‘Chill Bill’ style service.

Intec’s fully convergent billing platform enables us to realise the full potential of next generation services from service launch and delivery, to multi-layered marketing campaigns and cross-discounts for customers,” commented Jaroslaw Bauc, Polkomtel’s CEO. Critically, in a highly competitive market, Intec’s technology also enables us to reinforce our competitive edge.”

It is three years since we started working with Polkomtel and we are delighted to be extending our relationship as a long-term, valued supplier,” added Gary Burch, VP for Intec EMEA. Phase 1 of Polkomtel’s convergent billing programme has been a spectacular commercial success, and we look forward to helping them deliver higher levels of revenue, increased efficiencies and significantly improved levels of customer satisfaction.”

In April 2009 Intec was selected the winner in the prestigious ‘Best Billing Solutions’ category in the Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Awards, for its work with Polkomtel.