Press Release

Coastal Technologies Group Processes More Than 10 Billion
Call Detail Records in March

Unprecedented transaction processing volume capability ensures billing accuracy and helps carriers meet stringent Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

BOCA RATON, FL – April 25, 2005 – Coastal Technologies Group Inc. (CTGi), a leader in call detail processing, accounting and OSS support for the telecommunications industry, today announced that it processed more than 10 billion call records in March for one of the U.S.’s largest service providers. CTGi’s ability to track and analyze such tremendous call volumes in near real-time means carriers can ensure the accuracy of incoming bills, create error-free operational expense forecasts and quickly identify and resolve intercarrier billing issues. In addition, this ability enables carriers to fulfill a key requirement in meeting stringent Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines.

Historically, call detail record (CDR) solutions have been able to accurately track and analyze only a few billion transactions per month before encountering processing failures. Because the world’s largest carriers significantly exceed that threshold each month, carriers often use call sampling to arrive at best-guess estimates for accounting and billing records.

“Today, with the pressure to comply with strict regulatory oversight, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, carriers need to do more than take call data samples,” said Richard Kane, president and CEO of CTGi. “Our CMP (call management platform) solution eliminates sampling and ensures accurate accrual and maximum revenue capture.”“Service providers are continuing to look at outsourcing organizations for their often unprofitable legacy operations,” said Elisabeth Rainge, director of IDC’s OSS and Billing program. “Firms such as CTGi can meet a carrier’s long-term needs by offering quick response to regulatory concerns, providing greater accountability for auditing compliance and ensuring accurate billing practices.”

To accommodate this extremely high volume of CDR analysis, CTGi deployed its CMP® transaction processing engine. CMP is a traffic analysis, management, and reporting system that allows for accurate auditing, accrual and percentage interstate usage (PIU) detail. It performs comprehensive, network-wide processing in near real-time to provide service providers with call detail and call summary data. CTGi offers the solution on an ASP or installed basis.

Tested for up to 20 billion call records per month per cluster, CMP accommodates multiple types of CDR formats including traditional circuit switched detail, soft switch VoIP detail, cellular detail, and IPDR detail. CTGi operates its own storage facility, and can securely store more than 120 billion transactions on line.

About Coastal Technologies
Coastal Technologies Group, Inc. (CTGi) provides Operations Support solutions for the telecommunications industry. One of the world’s largest ASPs, processing more than 10 billion transactions per month, the company’s suite of solutions closes the loop on the entire telecommunications lifecycle, from order entry to network monitoring to bill auditing. CTGi’s suite of products provide a single source for managing the fixed and variable costs of operating a network, enabling service providers to both provision and track usage with each trading partner.