Boston Communications Group Announces C2C Prepaid Wireless Growth.WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1998--Boston Communications Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCGI BCGI Boston Communications Group Inc ) today announced that net subscribers on its C2C (Client to Client) An earlier term for peer-to-peer (P2P), in which one user communicates with another user without going through a server in between. See peer-to-peer. prepaid service increased by 33,000 for the month of March and 87,000 for the first quarter, bringing its domestic subscriber base to 378,000. "While these results would represent a compounded annual growth rate of 200% in our subscriber base, they nonetheless reflect that some of our largest carriers had not yet aggressively marketed their wireless prepaid services," commented E.Y Snowden, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Communications Group bcgi develops products and services that enable wireless operators to fully realize the potential of their networks. bcgi's Access Management, Billing, Payment and Network Solutions help operators rapidly deploy and manage innovative voice and data services for subscribers. , Inc. Kevin Thigpen, Vice President and General Manager of the Prepaid Division added, "Some of these larger carriers have launched new market initiatives which should begin to have a positive effect on our subscriber growth rate in the second quarter. In the international market, prepaid wireless demand remains strong as evidenced by our agreement, also announced today, with BellSouth International Wireless Services for the sale of our prepaid systems throughout South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." Boston Communications Group, Inc. develops, markets, and provides high quality, innovative call processing services, prepaid wireless services, teleservices, prepaid and voice systems to wireless telephone carriers. The Company s services and systems are designed to enable wireless telephone carriers to focus internal resources on their core business activities, while increasing revenues, improving service quality and reducing costs. BCG BCG bacille Calmette-Guérin. BCG abbr. 1. bacillus Calmette-Guérin 2. ballistocardiogram BCG, n.pr See bacille Calmette-Guórin. provides one or more of its services to carriers who serve over 90 percent of the United States population and who operate in over 1,100 North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. markets. The Company also provides services to nine of the 10 largest cellular carriers, by number of subscribers, in the United States. Additional information is available at the BCG web site at www.bcgi.net. CONTACT: Boston Communications Group, Inc., Woburn Fritz von Mering-Vice President Finance Tracy Baumert-Investor Relations (617) 692-7000 or Morgen-Walke Associates, Inc., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Andrea Kaimowitz/Katherine Mittelbusher Media Contact: Lee Foley/Elizabeth Pieroni (212) 850-5600 |
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