China Telecom Selects Amdocs to Support New CDMA Operations
Amdocs to provide billing and customer relationship management (CRM) systems for China Telecom Jilin and Tianjin
ST. LOUIS and BEIJING (January 14, 2009) –
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems today announced that it has implemented a new business support system (BSS) for Tianjin Telecom and Jilin Telecom subsidiaries of China Telecom Corporation (NYSE:CHA), and completed the migration of existing CDMA users from China Unicom. China Telecom acquired the CDMA network and operations from China Unicom in June 2008.
Amdocs provides billing, CRM, mediation and partner management capabilities for the CDMA mobile operations, as well as broadband and fixed-line operations. Amdocs delivered solution design, software delivery, systems integration, local project management and IT infrastructure support services, and has migrated all former Unicom CDMA customers to meet China Telecom’s deadline of December 2008.
About China Telecom
China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) is the world’s largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider, providing telecommunications and information services including voice, data, image and multimedia mainly in 21 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China, with about 220 million fixed line subscribers and over 35 million broadband subscribers. Our H shares and American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the New York Stock Exchange respectively.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation, enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and intentional customer experienceTM at every point of service. Amdocs provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the software, services and expertise to help its customers execute their strategies and achieve service, operational and financial excellence. A global company with revenue of $3.16 billion in fiscal 2008, Amdocs has more than 18,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs’ growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs’ ability to grow in the business segments it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company’s products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, however the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, filed on December 8, 2008.
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