USCS International and IBM Announce New Marketing Agreement; Intelecable Software System Joint Marketing to be Expanded to North America.RANCHO CORDOVA Rancho Cordova (răn`chō kôrdō`və), uninc. residential city (1990 pop. 48,731), Sacramento co., N Calif. A suburb of Sacramento, it experienced rapid growth in the late 20th cent. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 1996--USCS International, Inc. (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 : USCS USCS United States Code Service USCS United Sprint Car Series (auto racing) USCS United States Customs Service USCS Unified Soil Classification System USCS University of South Carolina Spartanburg USCS Universal Ship Cancellation Society ), a leading provider of customer care software and open billing solutions to the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. worldwide, today announced a new marketing agreement between its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , CableData, Inc., and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM). The new agreement expands the companies' long-standing international marketing agreement in response to changes in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. marketplace resulting from telecommunication deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. . CableData and IBM will jointly market CableData's Intelecable(TM) software system, complementary IBM business support software such as data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and marketing decision support packages, IBM system integration and consulting services, and the IBM RS/6000(TM) to U.S. television and telecommunications providers. With this agreement, IBM and CableData can now more effectively offer customers a range of seamless, full service solutions designed to address the needs of a dynamic communications market. "Intelecable's capabilities to address the needs of our customers' rapidly changing marketplace have been demonstrated and proven," said Michael Reene, Vice President, Telecommunications, Cable & Wireless, IBM Telecommunications and Media Industry Solutions Unit. "This is an important relationship for IBM as we work together with CableData and our other partners to serve the North American market with full-service, leading-edge solutions." "CableData was the first in its market to recognize the need for open, UNIX-based solutions," said Mike McGrail, president of CableData. "IBM has been our partner in the development and marketing of the Intelecable product since its inception, and this new agreement is a logical extension to the U.S. of the model we have jointly and successfully applied overseas." Intelecable is a fully operational customer and transaction management and billing system for multiple telecommunications services such as cable television, cable/telephony, direct-to-home broadcast, and interactive broadband services such as Internet access and interactive video. Intelecable first became operational in 1993 in support of cable/telephony systems in the United Kingdom, and was subsequently chosen to support a number of U.S. convergence pilots, such as BellSouth and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) . Intelecable now operates at more than 50 sites worldwide such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Portugal, Venezuela, The United Kingdom and the United States. Installations for 12 additional customers in eight new countries are pending. Based both on the product's success and the advent of telecommunications deregulation in the United States, CableData's Intelecable has been made generally available to the North American market. IBM Business Partners are independent firms that work with IBM to provide a broad range of hardware and software systems, marketing, installation and support to meet customer needs. The IBM Telecommunications and Media Industry Solutions Unit offers a wide range of solutions for telecommunications, cable TV, wireless, broadcasting, publishing, advertising and entertainment companies. USCS International is a leading provider of customer management software and statement presentment services to the global communications industry. The company currently serves 53% of the nation's cable television customers, 33% of the nation's cellular customers and approximately 9% of the nation's land-line phone customers. USCS International's clients include providers of cable television, wireless and landline telephony, direct broadcast satellite and multiple communications services in the United States and 15 other countries. -0- Note to editors: Intelecable is a trademark of CableData, Inc. RS/6000 is a trademark or registered trademark of IBM Corporation. CONTACT: USCS International, Inc. Linda Beech Cutler, 916/636-5846 lcutler@uscs.com or Morgen-Walke Associates, Inc. Doug Sherk/Suzanne Craig/Lisa Laukkanen, 415/296-7383 Emily Dupree/Elissa Grabowski, 212/850-5698 or Capital Relations, Inc. Kathleen Gawel or Lisa Zylstra, 805/494-0830 gawel@caprel.com |
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