Amdocs Awarded Teligent Contract.Business Editors/High Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ), the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions for communications and Internet services, announced today that Teligent, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : TGNT), a global leader in broadband communications, has selected IAF (Internet Application Framework) A suite of software development technologies from Ross Systems, Inc., Atlanta, GA (www.rossinc.com) that is the backbone of its iRenaissance Suite. Meta-data driven, IAF comprises a . Horizon to support its new suite of Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) application services See ASP and Web services. . Teligent has recently expanded its ISP facilities and services offering customers a wide variety of IP applications. The implementation of IAF Horizon eases the provisioning of customer care services and flexible pricing plans to Teligent customers for fully web-based services. Since April, Teligent's new "owned and operated" Internet facilities have been carrying data traffic for the company's newest Internet customers. "As a new ISP hosting more than 500 Internet domains on our own equipment, Teligent's number one mission is to offer customers a wide variety of data services, including high speed connectivity, mail and web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. ," said Teligent Chief Technology Officer Hamid Akhavan. "By building an in-house set of IP applications on IAF Horizon's platform, Teligent can support all of our customer's growing communication needs and requirements." "The integration of fixed wireless technology with traditional broadband equipment enables best of breed communication and application services," said Paul Atkinson, President of Amdocs' Solect Division. "Teligent is making significant advancements in this area and IAF Horizon is ideally suited to support their IP hosting business model. We are very pleased to be working with Teligent, and look forward to building a strategic relationship that will enable them to quickly extend their hosted applications." About Teligent Based in Vienna, Va., Teligent, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGNT) is a global leader in broadband communications offering business customers local, long distance, high-speed data and dedicated Internet services over its digital SmartWave(TM) local networks in 41 major markets throughout the United States. The company is working with international partners to extend its reach into Europe, Asia and Latin America. Teligent's offerings of regulated services are subject to all applicable regulatory and tariff approvals. For more information, visit the Teligent website at: http://www.teligent.com. About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management systems for communications and Internet services. Amdocs has an unparalleled success record in project delivery of its mission-critical products. With human resources of over 5,900 information systems professionals, Amdocs has an installed base of successful projects with more than 75 service providers throughout the world. In April 2000, Amdocs completed the acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a leading provider of customer care and billing systems for IP service providers. For more information visit our Web site at www.amdocs.com Amdocs is shaping the new public network with Solect's IAF Horizon system, the world's leading carrier-grade billing, customer care and service management software for next generation service providers including wireless and ASPs. Solect has relationships with leading technology companies such as: Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Netscape, Nokia, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. ), Sun Microsystems, and Telcordia Technologies. Visit Solect at www.solect.com. About IAF Horizon Amdocs' Solect division has over seventy installations of IAF Horizon worldwide. The IAF Horizon billing, rating, customer care and service management solution provides a flexible platform for defining and registering new services quickly and easily, with no coding delays or downtime. It enables service providers to create differentiated service offerings with complex rating rules through its rule based rating engine. Customer touch-points, including invoicing and Web-based self-care, can be readily branded to support a service provider's wholesale or Virtual ISP (VISPs) model on a single platform, while maintaining the integrity of the individual brand. Customers include BT, Broadwing's ZoomTown, Cablecom, E-Plus, Eircom, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , Micron PC, PointOne, Puerto Rico Telephone Company Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT), is the largest Puerto Rican telecommunications services company. It is headquartered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and has operated for almost a century offering voice, data, long distance, broadband, directory publishing and wireless services for the (PRTC PRTC Puerto Rico Telephone Company PRTC Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos (El Salvador) PRTC PEPSU Road Transport Corporation (India) PRTC Potomac River Transportation Company .net), Tele Danmark,ThinkLink, Saritel (Telecom Italia). |
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