BillSoft and Highdeal Partner to Provide Integrated Real-Time Rating, Billing and Taxation.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2004

Transaction Network Services (TNS) Benefits from the Integrated

Solution for Fast, Error-Free Rating, Billing and Taxation Compliance

BillSoft, Inc., the leader for taxation solutions, and Highdeal, the leading provider of pricing, charging and rating solutions for online and mobile services, announced today a joint solution that enables service providers to offer fast and error-free rating, billing and taxation. The platform decreases TCO and eliminates the burden of managing complex tax software. This integrated solution has already been deployed for Transaction Network Services, Inc. (TNS), a leading provider of data communications services for transaction-oriented applications.

With over 200,000 different taxes in the U.S., service providers are faced with challenges that make provisioning for and calculating telecommunications taxes a very complex task. Highdeal and BillSoft have joined forces on a solution that allows customers to accurately collect and calculate taxes based on current rates. The integrated solution, which includes BillSoft's EZTax(R) and the Highdeal Transactive(R) rating and billing solution, is designed to capture, label, group and provision customer data for rating and billing in real-time according to federal, state, county and local tax rules.

"Today's service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to handle tax reconciliation and compliance," said Vicki Klein, president of BillSoft. "With highly flexible and automated processes, the powerful combination of Transactive and EZTax, results in systems that provide rating, billing and revenue collection with quicker rollout of new product offerings," said Klein.

The fully integrated solution enables service providers like TNS to dynamically manage and automate pricing, billing, and rating processes while ensuring accurate billing and tax calculations. The Highdeal Transactive GUI allows users to set-up the appropriate tax characteristics during the rating process. The system transfers the pricing information to the high-performance EZTax rating engine to calculate applicable taxes. The tax computation results are then available for Transactive and automatically displayed on invoices.

"With EZTax and Transactive, we are able to minimize time-consuming manual tax verification processes, freeing up resources to concentrate on other value added services for our clients," says Richard Martin, VP Management Information Systems, TNS. He adds, "Both solutions focus on rapid integration which will enable TNS to see a rapid return on its investment."

Eric Pillevesse, CEO of Highdeal explains, "Our solution is modular and easily integrated into any system. This flexibility is part of our founding vision and we strive to work with partners such as BillSoft in order to provide cost-effective, best-of-breed solutions."

About Transaction Network Services, Inc.

Transaction Network Services is one of the leading providers of business-critical, cost-effective data communications services for transaction-oriented applications. TNS provides rapid, reliable and secure transaction delivery platforms to enable transaction authorization and processing across several vertical markets and trading communities.

Since its inception in 1990, TNS has designed and implemented multiple data networks, each designed specifically for the transport of transaction-oriented data. TNS' networks support a variety of widely accepted communications protocols and are designed to be scalable and accessible by multiple methods. TNS' network technologies have been deployed in the United States and internationally, and TNS' networks have become preferred networks servicing the trading community, wireless and wireline carriers, and the card processing and dial-up automated teller machine markets. For further information about TNS' transaction solutions, please refer to www.tnsi.com.

About BillSoft

BillSoft specializes in enhancing billing systems and service bureau products by providing taxation, address scrubbing and jurisdiction assignment solutions. BillSoft's Total Tax Solution consists of EZTax, EZData, EZFile, BillSoft Online, EZGeo, EZTax Viewer, tax compliance filing and tax consulting services. BillSoft's flagship product, EZTax, is the most comprehensive telecommunications tax package available. Taxing in excess of 1.8 billion transactions per hour, EZTax is by far the highest performance system on the market. With the availability of taxation for products and services in 76 countries, EZTax provides the most comprehensive telecom tax system and the best overall value. EZTax is supported on a wide array of platforms including the IBM S/390, IBM AS/400, Hewlett Packard's HPUX (32 and 62 bit), Data General's DGUX, Intel Linux, Sun Solaris (32 and 64 bit), IBM RS/6000 AIX, Bull Escala AIX and Windows NT/2000/2003 environments. In addition, BillSoft is partnered with billing and OSS providers, providing communications companies with a one-stop approach and seamless billing/taxation system. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.billsoft.com.

About Highdeal

Highdeal is the leading provider of innovative pricing, high performance rating and settlement solutions for emerging online and mobile applications and services. Highdeal enables companies offering these services to create and implement successful pricing strategies in dynamic market environments. With over 70 implementations in more than 15 countries, companies around the world rely on Highdeal for their pricing and rating needs. Highdeal has offices in New York, Paris, London, Munich and Santiago. Please visit www.highdeal.com.