Openet Announces Teaming Agreement with Lucent Technologies

Dublin, Ireland and Reston, VA, 17th May, 2006,Openet Telecom Group is pleased to announce it has signed a teaming agreement with Lucent Technologies for the promotion and re-sale of Openet’s FusionWorks™ solutions. The teaming agreement enhances and binds and existing sales relationship between the two companies. This announcement adds to list of successful tactical teaming and reseller agreements developed between Openet and other industry leaders, including such organisations as Telcordia, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Intracom, Tech Mahindra and Wipro.

“Working with Lucent allows both companies to comprehensively address IMS market together.” said Philip Hogan VP Alliances at Openet. “The Openet Lucent relationship further strengthens Openet’s positioning in the real-time content charging market and validates our IMS offerings as a market leader and standard bearer for the industry.”

Given the scale of the Billing & Customer Care (B&CC) sector, Openet Telecom is committed to partnering with world-leading organisations delivering complete B&CC solutions to Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Successful solutions are born of strong relationships, a keen understanding of requirements and a confidence in each component of the solution delivered by the parties involved.

Further commenting on Openet’s partnering and Alliances strategy generally, Philip Hogan also stated that Openets vision was "To develop global and local relationships that provide leverage to Openet and our partners in the areas of sales, marketing, support and development, in order to increase revenue, expand distribution and provide complete solutions to our joint customers."

Through its Alliances activities in Europe and the USA, Openet offers the following benefits to its Partners, some of which include: