EDB Business Partner ASA could today announce that its US subsidiary Telesciences, Inc. has received initial orders valued at nearly USD 2 million for its Sterling Mediation system solutions from Alltel, a leading United States based ILEC as part of a major billing data collection network upgrade. Deliveries are in process. Telesciences new customer is a well-established leader in the communications and information services industry with more than 10 million communications customers and USD 7.6 billion in annual revenues.

The Sterling Mediation solution is the market's leading solution for usage event collection and processing. State-of-the-art, open-architecture, real-time collection and processing of event usage records from telephone switches, soft switches, RADIUS servers and other data generating systems.

For more information, please contact:

Bjørn Trondsen, CEO, EDB Business Partner
Tel: +47 23 32 45 01
Mobile: +47 91 78 56 17
E-mail: bjorn.trondsen@edb.com

Asbjørn Eide, Managing Director, EDB 4tel
Tel: +47 23 32 00 00
Mobile: +47 90 78 53 05
E-mail: asbjorn.eide@edb4tel.com