Billiant AB Reaches Strategic Agreement With Cable & Wireless - pi.se.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2000 Cable & Wireless - pi.se, selects Billiant as supplier of IP-billing system. With Billiant they will be able to increase their growth and differentiate themselves at the market Billiant AB is a software company which designs, develops and markets leading edge IP-billing software and services. Billiant is differentiated through handling multidimensional mul·ti·di·men·sion·al adj. Of, relating to, or having several dimensions. mul  ti·di·men rating and a unique
data collection. Cable & Wireless - pi.se is an 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. which offer Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the capacity to service providers. Today the customers are charged through a fixed fee, so called flat-rate. With Billiant they will be able to handle usage based billing, i.e., the customers pay for the capacity, which they use. For Cable & Wireless - pi.se the agreement is of strategic importance to increase growth further. With Billiant's IP-billing solution they will be able to offer services that motivate increased usage by existing customers, but also attract new customers. Billiant also have a superior cost effective solution concerning time for implementation, integration, and a unique data collection. "Billiant offers us a flexible IP-billing system which helps us reach our planned growth. It also gives us a competitive edge at the market since we in an early stage will be able to differentiate services and go from flat- rate to usage based pricing. We will now be able to meet our customers need of a more fair and customer adjusted charging," says Fredrik Engvall CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Cable & Wireless - pi.se. "The agreement is of strategic importance since it is a further verification that Billiant has a leading edge product, which helps our customers to launch their own differentiated services Offerings that can be classified by type, or quality, of service. For example, a differentiated services network could prioritize real time traffic for a higher fee. . Cable & Wireless - pi.se has great expansion plans in Sweden and we are looking forward to grow together with them," says Rickard Asp, CEO Billiant AB." About Billiant AB Billiant AB designs, develops, and markets leading edge billing software and services. The target customers are packet-based communication service providers, like Broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). Operators and Mobile Service Providers, as well as portals. Billiant has a very solid ownership backing. Main investors are WireEdge Ventures (www.wireedge.com) and Venture Partners (www.venture.no). Billiant is today approximately 25 employees, and will during 2001 expand to nearly 50. Billiant is operating at the European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. market with headquarters in Stockholm, design center in Gothenburg, a local sales office in Madrid, and is now aggressively expanding through establishing more offices in Europe. For further information: www.billiant.com. About Cable & Wireless - pi-se Pi.se is one of the pioneers among Sweden's Internet service providers and has since the start 1994 helped our customers using Internet to handle their torrents of communication and information more effective. Since 1999 we are a part of the Cable & Wireless group. Cable & Wireless is a global telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. company which have a yearly turnover of more than (pound) 9 milliard mil·liard n. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 109. [French, from Old French milliart, from milion, million; see million. and customers in 70 countries all over the world. Cable & Wireless companies around the world offers a number of services involving broadband and computer services Data processing (timesharing, batch processing), software development and consulting services. See service bureau, SaaS and ASP. , Internet and voice communication. Cable & Wireless is now prioritizing expansion within the fast growing IP business (Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. ) and IP- and computer services for business customers. The company is investing in development and advanced network services in USA, Europe and Asia to build the worlds leading global IP infrastructure. With the capacity, which this advanced infrastructure offers, and its presence on the most important markets, Cable & Wireless has a unique position when it comes to global presence and services for business customers. Cable & Wireless - pi.se has its headquarters in Stockholm, where also most of the approximately 55 employees are, and an office in Gothenburg. 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