Lightbridge Launches Subscriber.com ASP Service for Wireless Prepaid Billing.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001 New Offering Allows Large Carriers to Try and Buy and Small to Mid-size Carriers to Offer Real-time Prepaid pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay  ment n. Services Without Developing and Maintaining Infrastructure Lightbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: LTBG), a global provider of mobile business solutions to wireless carriers, today announced Subscriber.com(TM), a complete turnkey ASP (Application Service Provider) service for real-time prepaid rating and billing. Subscriber.com is targeted at large carriers who desire to rapidly add prepaid services without having to make changes to their existing staff and small to mid-size carriers who do not want to extend resources to deploy and maintain their own prepaid system. Lightbridge will be featuring Subscriber.com at booth #4051, at the CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. conference in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , NV, from March 20-22. "Subscriber.com is an important part of our mobile business offering that enables carriers to add real-time prepay pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay ment n. offerings without having to develop and maintain their own systems," said Carla Schneiderman, vice president of marketing at Lightbridge. "Subscriber.com is another step forward for Lightbridge in its effort to provide our broad range of clients with the flexibility and scalability they need to be competitive in today's mobile business world." Subscriber.com is a complete turnkey prepaid service that integrates with carriers' existing network and infrastructure. Available services include: 24/7 customer call center support; new subscriber activation; phone card management and Web-based system administration reports on revenue and call volume. Subscriber.com is built upon the PrePay Open(TM) real-time rating and billing system developed by Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. Communications, a Lightbridge company. PrePay Open offers the functionality of the WIN II/CAMEL standard today with an easy migration path when the WIN II triggers are deployed. PrePay Open supports multiple air interfaces and interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. roaming, and scales to support regional or national markets ranging from thousands to millions of subscribers. Subscriber.com can be integrated with PhoneFuel Open(TM), an online account replenishment replenishment the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography. service that was developed by Corsair. In addition to replenishment, PhoneFuel Open provides subscribers with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ) mobile and Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. access to accurate, up-to-the-minute account details, including account balance, call and payment records. Both PrePay Open and PhoneFuel are part of Lightbridge's Telesto mobile business product line and can be extended through the addition of optional services including fraud management, churn churn: see butter. analysis and marketing. Availability Subscriber.com will be available in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. in early Q3 2001. About Lightbridge Lightbridge is a global provider of mobile business solutions, offering wireless carriers a flexible, comprehensive suite of products and services designed to increase revenue, productivity and customer loyalty. Building on its 12-year heritage in the wireless telecommunications arena, Lightbridge integrates a reliable infrastructure for the mobile business economy that supports the complete customer lifecycle, including customer acquisition, risk management, prepay and replenishment, customer relationship management and retention. On February 7, 2001, Lightbridge completed an acquisition of Corsair Communications, Inc., a provider of real-time, prepaid billing solutions for the global wireless industry. While continuing to set the standards for pervasive customer care, Lightbridge now enables carriers to significantly increase the volume of new subscribers by offering either prepay or post-pay billing administration models. Lightbridge is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. Additional information is available at http://www.lightbridge.com or by calling 1-800-LIGHTBR. Lightbridge and the Lightbridge logo are registered trademarks of Lightbridge, Inc. 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