Cellular Technical Services Announces "Excellent" Results from Alpha Test of its "Blackbird" Fraud Interdiction System; Company Also Announces Signing of Software Contract.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1994--Citing a "modular platform architecture that offers significant performance and competitive advantages," Cellular Technical Services Co. (Nasdaq NM Symbol: CTSC CTSC Cathepsin CTSC Clinical and Translational Science Center (University of California at Davis) CTSC Chenega Technology Services Corporation CTSC Canadian Technical Security Conference (Burlington, ON, Canada) )("CTS (1) (Clear To Send) The RS-232 signal sent from the receiving station to the transmitting station that indicates it is ready to accept data. Contrast with RTS. (2) (Common Type System) The data typing used in . ") today announced "excellent" results from the Alpha test The first test of newly developed hardware or software in a laboratory setting. When the first round of bugs has been fixed, the product goes into beta test with actual users. For custom software, the customer may be invited into the vendor's facilities for an alpha test to ensure the of the Company's pre-call fraud interdiction INTERDICTION, civil law. A legal restraint upon a person incapable of managing his estate, because of mental incapacity, from signing any deed or doing any act to his own prejudice, without the consent of his curator or interdictor. 2. software system known by its code-name "Blackbird blackbird, common name in North America of a perching bird allied to the bobolink, the meadow lark, the oriole, and the grackle and belonging to the family Icteridae. The European blackbird, Turdus merula, is a thrush. ." The test, conducted with Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Cellular Co. was completed during the fourth quarter. It provided data to evaluate various fraud interdiction techniques, parameters for accurately identifying the "fingerprint" of cellular phones, and verification of the platform's ability to interface with the operational system of a large cellular service provider. CTS Vice President of Engineering Dave Hoogerwerf, said, "The Alpha test provided an opportunity for us to collect and evaluate a large amount of operational data used to make critical enhancements for the production version of the application." Hoogerwerf noted that fraud interdiction would be the first of a "family" of pre-call software applications made available from the Blackbird platform. "What we've found is that the Blackbird platform, because of its modular-architecture design, can provide not only effective fraud interdiction capabilities for service providers, but it will also offer a host of unique pre-call data collection and management applications that can greatly enhance a carrier's total service. "Perhaps most important, Blackbird's system architecture provides a basis for addressing both the current problem of home fraud and the growing issue of roamer fraud," said Hoogerwerf. Roamer fraud occurs when cloned phones are used outside a carrier's home market. Roamer fraud is more difficult to combat because of gaps in inter-market operating agreements between various carriers. "Both A and B side carriers from across the country have expressed interest in Blackbird," said CTS President Bob Dahut. "We eagerly await production release after the Beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the and plan to aggressively market the platform based on what we believe to be significant operation, function and time-to-market advantages that Blackbird offers." In a separate development, CTS announced the signing of a contract to provide certain of its Real-Time Data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. Collection and Distribution software applications to another major cellular provider. "Modest revenue from the contract will be realized in the fourth quarter of 1994 and in 1995. More important, the agreement gives us strategic entry into another major carrier and enhances the potential for more significant application sales in 1995 and beyond," said Dahut. "Because of disclosure restrictions, we are not currently able to name the customer," he explained. Cellular Technical Services develops, markets and supports real-time information management systems for the wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. industry. The Company's innovative technologies and open systems philosophy help cellular carriers obtain real-time information and maximize value, control and flexibility of their systems. CONTACT: Cellular Technical Services Co.
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