Personal Broadband Australia Selects Portal as Billing Partner for iBurst.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2003 Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Joins PBBA's Consortium in the Lead up to the Launch of the World's First Truly Mobile Broadband Service Personal Broadband Australia (PBBA PBBA Personal Broadband Australia PBBA Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas PBBA Point Blank Body Armor, Inc. ) has appointed Portal Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ) as its official billing partner in the lead up to the commercial launch of iBurst, the world's first truly mobile broadband service. Headquartered in the US with offices globally, Portal offers billing and subscriber management solutions that enable communications and content service providers to optimise revenue from voice and digital transactions. Portal's solution for PBBA provides end-to-end rating, billing and customer management to support a variety of account models including wholesale, retail, prepaid and post-paid. Portal will also provide transactional real-time processing that can pre-authorise usage and precisely track start, mid-transaction and stop mobile broadband events as they occur. The events are rated accordingly, creating an up-to-the-second picture of accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying , general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. and customer balances. Scheduled for commercial availability later this year, Personal Broadband's iBurst system is a carrier-grade wide area wireless data network designed for people to have high-speed Internet access wherever they are, whenever they want. "Billing for advanced wireless services Advanced Wireless Services, also known as AWS-1, is a wireless telecommunications technology, used for mobile data services, video, and messaging. AWS-1 is used in the United States and replaces the spectrum formerly allocated to Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service, is rather complex, especially for emerging markets such as mobile broadband," said David Yuen, vice president and general manager, Portal Software (Asia Pacific) Limited. "Wireless service providers must be equipped to support a variety of devices, account types, payment methods, pricing models and service authorisation -- in real-time. In this sense, Portal's flexible billing system can actually present Personal Broadband Australia with a competitive edge." Said Charles Reed, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Personal Broadband Australia, "The iBurst service offers great appeal to large enterprise groups, SMEs, sole consultants and single consumers alike. We needed a billing system therefore that was functional enough to allow us to build differentiated services and business models to suit the differing needs of customers." He continued, "At the conclusion of a thorough tendering process, it was clear that Portal's global solutions were tried, tested and proven to support wireless services with the flexibility to accommodate rapid changes, such as quickly generating new offerings." The commercial trial of PBBA's iBurst service is currently underway with 400 OzEmail and Vodafone customers taking part. This world first in wireless mobile broadband is taking place in Sydney. Personal Broadband services are expected to be commercially available in Sydney by the end of this year and will be delivered on a wholesale basis to distributors such as ISPs, carriers, enterprises and mobile operators. About Portal Software Portal Software provides flexible billing and subscriber management solutions to enable organisations to monetise their voice and digital transactions. Portal's convergent billing platform enables service providers to charge, bill, and manage a wide range of services via multiple networks, payment models, pricing plans, and value chains. Portal's flexible and scalable product-based solutions enable customers to introduce new value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services quickly, providing maximum business value and lower total cost of ownership. Portal's customers include thirty-five of the top fifty wireless carriers as well as organisations such as Vodafone, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner, Deutsche Telekom, TELUS TELUS Telemetric Universal Sensor , NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , China Telecom, Reuters, Telstra, China Mobile, Telenor Mobil, and France Telecom. Headquartered in California, Portal has a presence around the globe including offices in Sydney and Melbourne. For more information, please visit www.portal.com. About Personal Broadband Australia (formerly CKW CKW Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke (Switzerland) CKW Chlorkohlenwasserstoffe CKW Closed Key Walkaway (call centers) CKW Clockwise Wireless) Personal Broadband Australia is an Australian company that will provide wireless personal broadband access services on a wholesale basis to distributors such as ISPs, carriers, enterprises and mobile operators. These services will give customers high speed, low cost broadband access to the Internet, e-mail and other applications while also giving them complete freedom to move. Personal Broadband Australia uses ArrayComm, Inc.'s iBurst Personal Broadband technology. Investors include ArrayComm, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Australia and Kyocera. |
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