Prime Carrier wins landmark deal with KPN
Dateline: 19 February 2003
Prime Carrier, the Irish based market leader in margin optimisation and switch update software for the telecommunications industry announces today that it has secured a landmark contract with KPN Royal Dutch Telecom to provide its flagship product MOST V™ to enable them to operate their International Wholesale Voice business more profitably.Having recognised the critical need to improve operating efficiencies and reduce termination costs in order to grow profitability in the future, KPN carefully evaluated the available solutions in the market and chose Prime Carrier’s MOST V™ as best suited to deliver these savings. Vincent Browne, Founder & CEO of Prime Carrier said “This is a significant development for Prime Carrier as it validates the Value Based Routing™ principles used at the core of the MOST V™ solution”.
Commenting on the deal, Edwin A.D. van Ierland, V.P. International Wholesale Voice Services at KPN said “we need this kind of innovative solution to manage near real time, our margin fluctuating business and react flexibly to changes and developments in the international wholesale business”.
MOST V™ addresses the core challenges facing telecommunications carriers today – improved rate negotiation with automatic dial-plan matching, complex routing decisions and daily switch update.
About Prime Carrier
Founded in June 2000, with over 20 customers worldwide including leading international carriers, Prime Carrier is the market leader in margin optimisation and switch update solutions. These operators have chosen Prime Carrier solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and margins in their carrier service business. Prime Carrier brings solutions to recognised industry problems and is also a strategic partner for improving the business process for carrier services. The company has offices in the UK, Denmark and the USA and its headquarters and software development centre is in Dublin, Ireland.
About KPN
KPN offers a wide range of high-quality, innovative services for consumers as well as business customers. The focus is on two core activities in three countries: the Netherlands (fixed network, mobile), Belgium (fixed network, mobile) and Germany (mobile). Broadband is the keyword for all service categories. In order for services to be aimed at the way customers live and work, mobile and fixed connections are offered in varying bandwidths, including ISDN and ADSL for fixed telephony, and GSM, GPRS - and in the near future UMTS for mobile communication.