AAPT Selects Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager Powered by Daleen; Leading Australian Carrier to Use Billing System for New Data Services.

Business and Technology Editors

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002

Communications software and solutions provider Telcordia(TM) Technologies, Inc. today announced that AAPT, one of Australia's three largest telecommunications carriers, and subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand, has selected the Telcordia(TM) Next Generation Billing Manager powered by Daleen (Nasdaq: DALN) to meet its billing needs.

AAPT will use the billing system to support a full suite of data service offerings, including QoS and SLA billing for ATM, frame relay, DSL, IP-VPN, private-line and dial-up. AAPT will offer access to the billing system to its affiliates, including parent company, Telecom New Zealand.

"The Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager powered by Daleen will enable us to consolidate our customer management data with our billing and service delivery, providing a single view of information for our data products and services," said Ian Buchanan, Group Director of Operations at AAPT.

"The decision to consolidate AAPT's data billing platform represents a significant company milestone toward improving internal efficiencies and reducing operational costs, letting us focus our resources on providing customers with the best products and services to suit their needs," Mr Buchanan said. "We look forward to working with Telcordia to optimize our billing infrastructure, built with the best available technologies in the industry."

Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager powered by Daleen offers powerful, Internet-architected billing capabilities, incorporating convergent billing and electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP). With the flexibility to read, rate and track any type of usage data over any network, this billing system provides the tools needed to bill for all current and future service offerings.

Built upon a new-generation, open Internet Integration Architecture (IIA(TM)), Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager powered by Daleen easily integrates with other enterprise applications. It provides increased support for high-capacity operations to rate and bill a high volume of complex usage records, while giving the power to configure specific functionality to suit individual needs, without requiring complex source code alterations.

"The Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager powered by Daleen, provides our clients with the ability to manage their customer revenue stream with the most extreme requirements in scalability and complexity," said Peter Green, vice president of Customer Care and Billing for Telcordia. "We are confident that the Billing Manager will be very successful for AAPT, allowing the company more time to focus on its customer base and continue with the expansion of its extensive network."

For businesses supporting critical global operations, the Telcordia Next Generation Billing Manager includes multi-national support for multiple languages and tax plans, currency conversion and localization.

About AAPT

AAPT is one of Australia's three largest telecommunications carriers and a part of the Telecom New Zealand Group. It provides a range of voice, mobile, data and Internet services to businesses, government, wholesale and residential customers throughout Australia, supported by its own extensive national voice and data network. www.aapt.com.au

About Daleen Technologies, Inc.

Daleen Technologies Inc. is a global provider of high performance billing and customer care software solutions that manage the revenue chain for traditional and next-generation communication service providers, retailers and distributors of digital media, and technology solutions providers. Offering proven integration with leading CRM and other legacy enterprise systems, Daleen's RevChain(TM) software and pure Internet Integration Architecture (IIA(TM)) leverage open Internet technologies to enable providers to achieve peak operational efficiency while driving maximum revenue from their product and service offerings. The company is currently ranked No. 1 worldwide in overall customer satisfaction based on timeliness of delivery, functionality, delivery within budget, vendor support and maintenance, system flexibility and interoperability. Additional information is available at www.daleen.com.

About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC company, is one of the world's largest providers of operations support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. A leader in the development of Next Generation Network technologies, Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, NJ with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific.

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2001, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.