Afghan Wireless Expands Growth Strategy with Redknee's Charging and Policy Solution

TORONTO, March 17, 2015 /CNW/ - Redknee Solutions Inc. (TSX: RKN), a leading provider of real-time monetization and subscriber management software, is pleased to announce that it is supporting Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC), the leading telecom operator in Afghanistan to differentiate its services and provide an advanced customer experience for its subscribers. Utilizing the Redknee Unified charging and policy solution, AWCC is leveraging convergent services, to monetize their next generation data strategy and support future growth.

With Redknee's real-time solution, AWCC is able to provide a greater range of value-add and personalized services faster to the market. AWCC can deliver targeted incentives and rewards to subscribers to increase ARPU and customer loyalty. Redknee's integrated charging and policy solution has enabled AWCC to optimize its network investments, reduce the load on its network and set differentiated quality of service for individual subscribers. In addition, Redknee's integrated solution enables AWCC to generate revenue through new business models and partnerships with OTT providers. Redknee's integrated solution provides a single solution for operators to manage multiple platforms and end-to-end visibility of services and products to enhance the customer experience.

Amin Ramin, Managing Director of Afghan Wireless (AWCC) commented:
"With Redknee's market leading integrated charging and policy control solution, Afghan Wireless is maximizing the value of our network. Having recently launched 3G services, we are increasing our subscriber base, driving growth with advanced data services and providing superior quality of service to our customers. Redknee is enabling us to increase our market presence, to be more competitive, and to enhance the customer experience."

Lucas Skoczkowski, Redknee's CEO commented:
"Redknee is pleased to support Afghan Wireless' data monetization and growth strategy with our integrated charging and policy management solution. The rapid evolution of telecom services in this region has created the need for communications service providers to deliver advanced services to market faster, to provide better network performance and to increase profitability. In addition, it validates the investments we continue to make in the combined product portfolio, and our focus on our long-term growth strategy."

Redknee enables communications service providers (CSPs) to monetize and optimize the subscriber experience across the entire customer lifecycle. From activation and provisioning, to supporting a 360 degree view of the customer's 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 offers one of the most comprehensive real-time converged charging, policy management, billing and customer care solutions in the industry. Redknee's highly scalable and flexible solutions enable CSPs to monetize third party relationships and content, support resellers and dealers and launch multi-country operations quickly, effectively and with a low total cost of ownership. Available on premise, cloud-based and as a Software-as-a-Service offering, Redknee delivers a complete monetization and subscriber management solution to more than 200 service providers, including some of the largest Tier 1 operators in the world.

For more information about Redknee and its solutions, please go to www.redknee.com.

About Redknee:
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative 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 connected customer experience - through either SaaS or on premise based solutions. Redknee's real-time monetization and subscriber management platform provides innovative converged charging, billing, policy management, and customer care solutions for over 200 communications service providers and is supporting service providers to monetize digital services across utilities and smart meters, transportation, connected homes and vehicles, and other enterprises that are emerging from the growing ecosystem of the Internet of Things (IOT).  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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