Redknee Announces Major Follow-on Orders with APAC Tier-1 Service Provider

TORONTO, Jan. 9, 2014 /CNW/ - Redknee Solutions Inc. (TSX: RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging software for communications service providers, is pleased to announce that it has established pricing and terms with an acquired APAC Tier-1 service provider for Redknee's real-time rating and charging solution for a three year term over which the customer estimates that it will purchase products and services resulting in aggregate revenues of $50 million to Redknee. The customer has issued binding purchase orders for Redknee's products and services for over $11 million in the past month. This demonstrates Redknee's capability to provide highly flexible and scalable software for Tier 1 operators in excess of 50 million subscribers.

Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO at Redknee, commented:
"We are very excited to have the opportunity to support our Tier-1 customer's impressive mobile data growth and subscriber expansion. This is a very significant milestone for Redknee's business. APAC is projected to be the fastest growing region for 4G/LTE adoption and this validates the growth opportunity for Redknee to expand the presence of our integrated charging, billing, policy management and customer care platform. Redknee remains committed to investing in our software in order to advance our position as the provider of choice for real-time monetization and subscriber management software solutions."

Redknee enables communications service providers to monetize and optimize the subscriber experience across the entire customer lifecycle. From activation to provisioning, to providing a 360 degree view of the customers' usage, preferences, and integration with third party social media sites, to empowering customers with self-care tools and the ability to pay for services on the go, Redknee provides one of the industry's most comprehensive real-time converged billing, charging, customer care and policy solutions.  Available on-premise, cloud-based and as a Software-as-a-Service offering, Redknee's customers include more than 200 service providers, including some of the largest Tier 1 operators in the world.

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About Redknee
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable service providers to monetize new services, business models and content and to deliver a comprehensive customer experience - through either SaaS or on-premise based solutions. Redknee's revenue and subscriber management platform provides innovative converged billing, charging, customer care, and payments solutions for voice, messaging and data services to over 200 service providers in over 90 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc. (TSX: RKN) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations of those entities. For more information about Redknee and its solutions, please go to www.redknee.com.

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