IBBS Selected as Finalist for Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards

Atlanta, Ga. - April 23, 2008 - Integrated Broadband Services, the technology leader providing the Broadband Explorer (BBX) diagnostics and provisioning software, announced today that they have been selected as finalists to receive the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award for BBX 4.4 and i-Focus in the Best Customer Care Solution and Best Service Assurance Solution categories, respectively. The awards recognize the leaders - vendors, service providers and integrators - in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions.

Having received more than 90 submissions, a select judging panel of experts from the billing and OSS community narrowed the field to three finalists per category, including IBBS's BBX 4.4 and i-Focus. The winners will be announced by Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott at a special ceremony at the Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference & Expo on April 30. Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award winners and runners-up will be featured in an upcoming issue of Billing & OSS World magazine and on the companion Web site, www.billingworld.com.

"Billing & OSS World congratulates all the finalists in this contest. The response to the program was outstanding and the competition intense, so making the cut is by itself a significant achievement and an acknowledgement of IBBS's pursuit of excellence in billing and OSS," said Saxby.

"We are very proud to be selected as finalists for two of the Billing & OSS Excellence Awards categories and honored to receive this recognition of our achievement," said Dave Keil, CEO of IBBS. "In response to customer and market input we are now investing even more heavily in BBX and i-Focus and expect to rollout significant new functionality over the course of 2008."

Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award finalists were selected by an independent judging panel, including Ian Scales, independent OSS/BSS journalist and analyst; Jeffrey Cotrupe, CEO, MarketPower LLC; Shira Levine, senior research analyst, OSS/BSS, IDC; Sheryl Kingstone, director, enterprise research and customer centric strategies, Yankee Group; Ed Shanahan, partner, Excelerate Partners Inc.; Paul Hughes, vice president, enabling technologies, Yankee Group; Dan Baker, research director, OSS/BSS KnowledgeBase, Dittberner Associates Inc.; Susan McNeice, senior analyst, Stratecast; and members of the Billing & OSS World editorial team.

For more information on the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards, visit www.billingworld.com/excellenceawards.

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Since 1995, Billing & OSS World magazine has been a primary source for coverage and analysis of telecommunications billing and operations support systems - from service creation, provisioning and customer management to fraud management, billing, revenue assurance and more. Published six times a year, Billing & OSS World provides in-depth analysis for executives and billing professionals at communications services provider organizations worldwide.