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Videotron chooses Highdeal for
quad-play Pricing & Rating
Leading cable MSO launches MVNO offering
with existing billing infrastructure
New York
and Paris – September 7, 2006 – Highdeal,
the world’s leading provider of Pricing, Rating and
Charging solutions, today announces that leading North American
cable MSO, Videotron, has selected Highdeal Transactive for
their billing infrastructure. The solution, which facilitated
the launch of Videotron’s new MVNO offering, was successfully
integrated into their existing BSS/OSS architecture.
Videotron, which provides cable television
and telephony, as well as interactive multimedia and Internet
services to 3.3 million customers in Canada, implemented Transactive
in an aggressive timeframe to meet the launch of their new
wireless offering. Videotron successfully launched this service
on August 10th becoming the first major North American cable
MSO to also become an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator).
“We are thrilled with the benefits
that Transactive has already delivered to our business. By
combining wireless telephone service with Videotron’s
other offerings, consumers can enjoy quality products and
advantageous discounts on their bills,” said André
Gascon, VP of Information Technology, Videotron. “And
they can simplify their lives through one-stop shopping at
Videotron: we are the only industry player that offers customers
a single customer service point, one visit from the technician,
one bill for all their services.”
The solution, which supports Videotron’s
residential and business customers, reflects a “lightweight
billing” strategy. Rather than a cumbersome billing
infrastructure that cuts into profit margins, Transactive
provides a cost-effective way to price and package quad-play
services while leveraging legacy billing & OSS systems.
Service providers increasingly need the ability to move quickly
in terms of service pricing and bundling in a converging,
multiservice marketplace.
Videotron’s strategy is to develop
a full, attractive array of telecommunications and entertainment
services. The move into wireless is another step towards consolidating
Videotron’s customer experience leadership. By eliminating
the constraints of traditional billing solutions, Videotron
is now able to achieve these goals.
“As a leader in the telecommunications
and entertainment market, Videotron understands the strategic
value of pricing & packaging to their overall business
success,” said Camilla Dahlen, President of Highdeal
Inc. “We are happy to have helped them fulfill their
vision of unconstrained pricing & packaging flexibility
and cost-effective, lightweight billing.”
Videotron and Highdeal will jointly
present at the upcoming MVNO Sustainable Business Models conference
in New York where Highdeal will also be conducting multiservice
Pricing & Rating demonstrations. Interested parties should
call +1 (212) 332-2144 or visit www.informatm.com/mvnony.
Highdeal will also exhibit at next week’s VON conference
in Boston.
About
Videotron
Videotron Ltd. (www.videotron.com), a wholly owned subsidiary
of Quebecor Media Inc., is an integrated communications company
engaged in cable television, interactive multimedia development,
Internet access services and residential telephone service.
Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its illico
interactive television system and its broadband network, which
supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital
cable television, and other services. As of June 30, 2006,
Videotron was serving 1,521,000 cable television customers
in Québec; including 545,000 illico subscribers. Videotron
is also the Québec leader in high-speed Internet access,
with 726,000 subscribers to its cable modem and dial-up services.
In addition, Videotron provides residential and commercial
telephone service to more than 283,000 customers in Québec.
Since August 2006, Videotron also offers wireless phone service.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing
& Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained usage-based business
models coupled with real-time, multi-party transaction management, Highdeal
solves the billing problem for service providers. Proven by 200 deployments
in more than 50 countries, the Highdeal
Transactive® software solution provides greater business agility and
lower TCO. From telecoms, Internet and media sectors, to transportation, logistics,
and financial markets, businesses across the service economy rely on Highdeal
to increase their competitiveness. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.
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