For the second year in a row, Telenor has been announced as the recipient of the IIR World Billing Award 2000 for Best Billing Implementation. EDB 4tel, the telecom software branch of EDB Business Partner is the vendor and system integrator of the solution.

The winners of this year's billing awards were officially announced at Billing Systems 2000 in London, one of the world's largest billing products and services trade shows and conferences. This is the fourth year that the Awards have been presented. Members of the CCB Distribution List and attendees at IIR’s CCB events are the only people who have been able to nominate candidates for the World Billing Awards. The jury praised Telenor's implementation of their Customer Care and Billing solution targeting the residential market.

"Telenor is proud to have been awarded IIR's Best Billing Implementation Award at the Billing Systems 2000 event in London. The fact that Telenor also won the prize last year for the implementation supporting the corporate segments pays tribute to the product CCB 4tel and EDB 4tel as our vendor and system integrator" says Terje Takle Johnsen, Telenor's Director in charge of implementing the new billing solution.

Telenor started the implementation of its new billing system in 1996. The CCB 4tel solution has given numerous benefits for the telco's business operations, including shorter time to market for new products, easier introduction and management of price plans and discount programs, shorter and simplified order handling in customer service, reduced training requirements in customer service and more informative invoices to the customers.

"Telcos demand functionality and flexibility that not only support the existing business, but also future challenges. Many telcos have been unable to realize many of the promised benefits of their CCB solutions due to poor implementation," says Asbjørn Eide, the EDB 4tel President. "This has been one of the largest and most complex IT-projects in Norway, therefore we are extremely proud to have been the vendor and system integrator in the implementation of CCB 4tel in Telenor."

Telenor and EDB 4tel will host a seminar about the implementation of the CCB 4tel solution in Telenor in connection with an award ceremony in Oslo in June. For details and application form, please contact sales@4tel.no.

About EDB 4tel
EDB 4tel is one of Europe's largest companies specializing exclusively in business systems solutions for the telecoms industry, offering innovative software products as well as consultancy, implementation, integration and tailored support services within the areas of Customer Care and Billing, Customer Relationship Management and Network Management.

Our business model is helping telcos to create value and competitive edge, while reducing operational costs and increasing profitability. Our unique combination of expertise in the telecoms business, IT and network technology constitutes an unparalleled understanding of the industry, and differentiates us considerably from other vendors. As such, EDB 4tel is well positioned to help operators and service providers to be good to their customers as a means to beat the competition and keep their stakeholders happy.

EDB 4tel is part of EDB Business Partner ASA, one of the largest IT-group listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, and Norway's largest provider of IT-related services. Headquartered in Oslo, EDB 4tel employs over 900 telecoms professionals in offices throughout Norway, as well as in Ireland, France and the US.
www.edb.4tel.no.

For additional information, please contact
Asbjørn Eide, President, EDB 4tel, tel. +47 22 77 29 71, asbjorn.eide@4tel.no