LHS Fosters Strong Position in African Telecom Market.ATLANTA/FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1998-- LHS (filename extension) lhs - The filename extension for literate Haskell source files. solution BSCS BSCS Biological Sciences Curriculum Study BSCS Bachelor of Science in Computer Science BSCS Business Support & Control System BSCS Black Sea Coastal States (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine) is most installed Billing and Customer Care System on the African Continent LHS (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LHSG, Neuer Markt, LHSI LHSI Lutheran High School of Indianapolis (Indiana) LHSI Low Head Safety Injection ), the global provider of billing and customer care solutions, fosters its strong position in the African telecommunications market and significantly broadens its existing customer base. In Africa, the company reports more than 10 BSCS installations in production and three in implementation. LHS is implementing its flagship product BSCS (Business Support and Control System) at Namibian mobile carrier MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. Namibia. Its partner Alcatel is in charge of a BSCS implementation at Malagasy mobile carrier Societe Malgache Mobiles. "With market liberalization all over the continent to follow, the LHS billing system BSCS is the most installed billing and customer care solution on the African continent" comments LHS Sales Director (Europe/ Middle East/ Afrika), Frank van Gumpel. According to a Financial Times survey, African telecom markets are expected to increase to $11 billion by the year 2000 from roughly $2 billion at present. The International Telecommunication Union International Telecommunication Union (ITU), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters at Geneva. It was created in 1934 as a result of the merging of the International Telegraph Union (est. (ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. ) expects cellular subscribers to grow by about 100 % from about one million in 1997 to two million in 1998. "The potential for market growth is clearly extraordinary in this region, with Africa having one eighth of the world's population and only 2% of its telephone lines" states Frank van Gumpel. "On one hand, structural problems in Africa, such as a low teledensity, different languages even within national borders as well as critical issues, such as cash collection and revenue assurance pose a special challenge to billing and customer care - but on the other hand, offer the opportunity to `leapfrog' to more advanced technologies, which are more flexible, scaleable and functional such as the LHS solution BSCS." LHS is a leading provider of convergent client/server modular customer care and billing software and services for the telecommunications industry. Its over 120 systems are installed in more than 50 countries, operating in 13 languages. In addition to its Atlanta headquarters, LHS has major offices in Frankfurt, Germany; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Zurich Switzerland. LHS is listed with NASDAQ (LHSG) and on the Frankfurt Neuer Markt (LHI LHI Local Heritage Initiative LHI Leading Health Indicator LHI Leasehold Improvement LHI Lars Hoej Informatik A/S (Danish translation technology company) LHI Lipschitz-Hankel Integral ). For more information, visit LHS' web site at www.lhsgroup.com.
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