Gateway Broadcast Services selects MagnaQuest for its DTH operations

(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 27, 2007 ) Hyderabad, India – MagnaQuest Technologies Pvt Ltd (MagnaQuest), a global Customer Management and Billing solution provider, announced that its flagship product “MQSubscribe has been chosen by Gateway Broadcast Services (GTV), Africa for launching their DTH services. GTV having operational staff all over Africa and UK with Conditional Access system in London, is one of the first companies in Africa to provide low cost DTH services. Gateway has most comprehensive and affordable international communications services on the African continent. MQSubscribe will be the single convergent Customer Management & Billing (CM&B) platform supporting GTV’s network spread over 28 countries across the continent. The solution facilitates on-line connectivity to the entire network of GTV’s regional offices & distributors through web interfaces. Apart from core subscriber management & billing, other crucial business processes at GTV are logistics & inventory, order taking, equipment installation, payments, customer care, messaging, which will be centralized by deploying MQSubscribe. MQSubscribe will be integrated with NDS conditional access system which activates and deactivates subscriber. “We chose MQSubscribe for its rich implementation experience in DTH projects and addressing PayTV domains. MQSubscribe has excellent customer management and billing capabilities which will allow us to manage our entire customer base consistently and efficiently.” commented Mr. Julian McIntyre, Managing Director, GBS. “With this new solution, we expect to achieve faster time-to-market, and also take advantage of the growing, lucrative and highly underserved market.” Mr. McIntyre added.Expressing pleasure, Rajiv Debbad, Vice President- Sales & Marketing, MagnaQuest added “Our experience & expertise of working with DTH service providers across the globe made us a natural choice for GTV. With our proven domain knowledge, we are fully committed to supporting the business plans of GTV in offering DTH services.”About MagnaQuest (www.magnaquest.net) MagnaQuest Technologies is a leading global customer care and billing solution provider for the video, data and content service providers. MagnaQuest has global presence with customer installations spanning Europe, Africa, South East Asia, Middle East and India. Satish G, Product Manager Marketing, gsatish@magnaquest.netChittiBabu, Alliance Manager, Chittibabu@magnaquest.netAbout Gateway Broadcast Services : GBS, subsidiary of Gateway Broadcast Services, is a dynamic new Pan-African pay-TV service delivering choice, quality and innovation to a new breed of TV viewer. GBS services are already available in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia and is currently proceeding with a phased roll-out across sub-Saharan Africa.###This press release was issued through GroupWeb EmailWire.Com. For more information on press release distribution, go to http://www.emailwire.com.

Satish G.

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