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Eftia OSS Solutions Inc. and CSC BRASIL Announce Reseller Agreement
Alliance delivers complete service management solution to Brazilian market

(August 12, 2002 Ottawa, Canada) Eftia, a leading provider of operational support system (OSS) solutions for wireless and wireline service providers, and CSC BRASIL, a leading software distributor in Brazil, announced today a strategic reseller agreement to jointly serve the Brazilian communications market. Together, the companies will offer a fully integrated end-to-end OSS solution that improves service providers' efficiency while increasing revenues.

CSC BRASIL has agreed to market and support the Eftia Master.Scribe Suite of OSS products to telecom service providers in Brazil. "This agreement, between market leaders, will yield benefits to both companies, " said Stephen Parker, Chief Executive Officer at Eftia. "CSC BRASIL will help its customers introduce new services faster and more efficiently with Eftia's out-of-the-box applications, and Eftia will benefit from CSC BRASIL's long-standing established base in the Brazilian market as we further extend our global reach."

"CSC BRASIL wanted to partner with an OSS company offering the best and most functional solution which affords a proven return on investment, and Eftia was looking for a best-of-breed software distributor to support its telecom solutions and base technology in the Brazilian market," said, Mario Gajanigo Filho, General Manager Business Unit Remedy/Eftia at CSC BRASIL. "We suited one another's requirements perfectly and we're both excited about the resulting opportunities opening up to our companies."

Eftia has recently upgraded its market-leading Master.Scribe Suite to include multi-language support in addition to its existing capability to handle international telephone number formats, international address formats, and international facility types. CSC BRASIL is the leading provider of Enterprise Management applications in Brazil, as well as one of the most prominent systems management software distributors in the country. The Eftia-CSC BRASIL partnership promises to further both companies' goal of providing superior OSS solutions to new markets.

About CSC BRASIL
CSC BRASIL was founded in 1986. The company initially worked with productivity, performance management and capacity planning software for IBM mainframes. Along with the evolution of Information Technology, CSC BRASIL expanded its solutions for the corporate environment, providing software for distributed systems management. Guided by its philosophy of consistent growth its pioneering spirit, CSC BRASIL was the first company in Brazil to launch help desk and problem management products for UNIX and Windows platforms. CSC BRASIL has consolidated its leadership position in the Brazilian market in the automation and enterprise management areas.

About Eftia
Eftia is a leader in developing, deploying and managing OSS solutions designed to meet the service management and delivery needs of tier one, wireless and next-generation service providers.

Master.Scribe is an integrated suite of OSS solutions that enables Eftia customers to master their mission-critical business and operations processes, reduce the time to market of services, and lower overall operational costs. The suite provides comprehensive order provisioning and fulfillment; problem management; telecom circuit and asset inventory management; and Internet protocol (IP) address and telephone number management. Eftia also offers a configurable OSS interconnection gateway.

Eftia is a significant contributor to the New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) led by the TeleManagement Forum, and is a focus member of the OSS through Java™ Initiative. Eftia is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information about Eftia and its products please visit www.eftia.com

Eftia and Master.Scribe are trademarks of Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.

For more information, please contact:

Farrah Jinha
TechKnow Communications Inc.
Phone: (604) 980-2448
Email: farrah@techknowcommunications.com

Vanessa Simmons
Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
Manager, Marketing Programs & Communications
Phone: (613) 368-3845
Email: vsimmons@eftia.com

Silvia Einsentein
Director Marketing
CSC Brasil
Telephone: 55 21 2544-4252

 

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