Paris, May 6, 2009 – Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing & rating solutions, announced today that IPKO Telecommunications Company, a subsidiary of the Telekom Slovenia Group, selected Highdeal Transactive® as the real-time convergent charging and billing platform for its quad-play solution. The Highdeal software suite is being integrated with other best-of-breed solutions including the Verso Customer Care Extensions by Verso, Croatia’s leading provider of customized network solutions and services.
IPKO, a Kosovo telecom operator, has been using Transactive to price and rate its fixed broadband services for the last five years. Due to the proven flexibility, strong support, and the ease of use of Transactive, IPKO decided to expand the solution to its quad-play services after the successful launch of its GSM mobile services.
IPKO is differentiating its services by combining creative bundling and promotions with real-time account controls. Transactive will allow IPKO’s nearly half a million subscribers to have a single prepaid account for all their quad-play services. From this account, they will be able to track their spending, allocate their prepaid credit between their different services, and change their pricing package as often as they wish. As a youthful company functioning in a dynamic and young market place (the employee median age is twenty-five, the same as the median age of the population of Kosovo), IPKO does not spend a lot of time designing and over-engineering new offers. If a promotion does not deliver value quickly, they drop it. Transactive supports this business model dynamicity. With Transactive, IPKO has already developed new promotions from idea to launch in just three days without any technical constraints or coding.
“Dynamicity and service excellence is essential part of IPKO’s business strategy. Being innovative for IPKO means bringing several services together while giving our customers a lot of freedom on what they spend their prepaid credit on. Highdeal gives us the freedom to react quickly to market demands and be very creative with our price plans and bundles. We can adjust our price plans in real-time without disrupting service. Giving us a real advantage in keeping ahead of market demands,” says Akan Ismaili CEO of IPKO
“We are extremely pleased to have been chosen by IPKO and to be working with Verso. IPKO’s convergent quad-play offering is an exciting example of the real market advantages to be gained from creative pricing and bundling. The proof: IPKO has gained 35% market share in the last year while maintaining higher price points for many services when compared to the incumbent operator,” observed Eric Lavenir, Highdeal Executive Vice President, EMEA Sales.
About IPKO
IPKO Telecommunications LLC is recognized as one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in Europe. Established in 1999, IPKO has grown from being the first Kosova-wide Internet provider to becoming a modern enterprise offering full range of integrated services as well as content, in mobile communications, fixed telephony, digital cable television, Internet services as well as media. IPKO is known as a modern company with advanced and affordable services, and has a reputation of a company who cares for its clients. Combining unique experience in a dynamic and emerging market with dedication to provide cutting edge technology to Kosovars, IPKO has established firmly itself as a fundamental pillar of the new economy in Kosovo.
About Verso
Verso offers full lifecycle services, starting from consultancy, planning and design, to maintenance and proactive production services, support and training. Verso is a networking powerhouse in Croatia, encompassing technological, organisational, business and commercial knowledge and expertise with the provisioning of products and services needed by companies transitioning into the networked economy.
Verso is strongly focused on service providers and the enterprise market and has many years of experience in international projects implementing IP telephony solutions for service providers across the EMEA region, India and Japan. Since 2008 Verso is part of Atento, jointly-funded entity founded by three eminent Croatian IT solution providers: Gisdata Group, Span and Mrežne tehnologije VERSO d.o.o.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of service Pricing & Rating solutions. We provide the necessary agility to ensure the profitability of fast-evolving business models with both customers and partners. Highdeal Transactive® is a modular software solution that monetizes business transactions in real-time. Companies rely on Highdeal to solve their billing problems in service industries such as telecommunications, media and entertainment, technology, transportation and logistics, and financial services. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.
Press Contact
Michele Landel, Highdeal
+33 (0)1 53 05 41 55 | michele.landel@highdeal.com
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