HYDERABAD, India, August 27 /PRNewswire/ --

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:

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.net
    ChittiBabu, Alliance Manager, Chittibabu@magnaquest.net



About 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.

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