CBIS announces alliance with HP to support European telephony market.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1996--Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS(R)) announces an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company to create a market-leading alliance that will supply billing and customer-care solutions to the European mobile, GSM, PCN and analogue telephony marketplace.

Under the terms of the agreement, CBIS and HP will partner on selected opportunities to deliver best-of-breed customer-management implementations, focusing on the CBIS Advantage(TM) Solution Set. Specific activities will include the installation, marketing, sales and support of CBIS Advantage based on HP hardware, software and services.

CBIS Advantage is a robust, next-generation solution targeted primarily toward the international mobile communications (GSM) and convergence markets. It is a modular, highly-scalable, client/server solution that exploits the proven efficiencies of the ORACLE RDBMS and the UNIX-C programming language. Not only does CBIS Advantage provide the user with system flexibility and real-time rating, its modular platform architecture efficiently handles increasing subscriber and message volume.

Andre Meyer, general manager of HP's Telecommunications Systems Business Unit, added, "Through our joint efforts with CBIS, we can offer companies a single source for billing and customer-care solutions. CBIS and HP will provide solutions ranging from real-time rating engines to complete, end-to-end, customer-care systems."

"The overall objective of this strategic agreement is to increase the viability and enhance the credibility of the CBIS and HP solutions being offered in the areas of customer care and billing for the mobile industry," said Robert A. Thompson, Vice President and Managing Director of CBIS Ltd. "In addition to this marketing goal, both companies will cooperate to define the functionality enhancements required for success in the rapidly-expanding European marketplace. The HP and CBIS alliance facilitates this expansion by enabling corporations and institutions of all sizes to implement `turn-key' solutions to their customer care and billing challenges." Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 102,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year.

CBIS is the global leader in the provision and management of customer care and billing solutions for the communications industry. More than 225,000,000 bills for cable TV, wireless and wireline telephony are produced by CBIS software and in CBIS's data centers each year. CBIS uses its extensive billing systems expertise and service bureau experience to create advantages for leading companies in wireless, cable TV, wireline, and emerging communications services. CBIS is a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CSN). CBIS is a registered service mark and CBIS Advantage is a trademark of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc.

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