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VeriSign Launches New GSM Settlement and Exchange Services

Fully Managed Clearing Solution Available Internationally Features Security, Compliance and Revenue Assurance Capabilities

3GSM Barcelona (13 February, 2006) – VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced its own settlement and exchange services for GSM operators.

The VeriSign Next-Generation Global System for Mobile Communications Settlement and Exchange Services for GSM Carriers (SES GSM) is designed to streamline and simplify roaming, tracking and settling by consolidating data and facilitating payments based on GSM industry standards.

Launching SES GSM internationally compliments VeriSign’s existing CIBER clearing business that has supported TDMA and CDMA operators for more than a decade.

“Operators want solutions that decrease the complexity and expenses related to clearing and settlement,” said David Meredith, vice president, VeriSign Commerce Services. “Our GSM settlement service can be used by GSM providers that want best-in-class support, reliability, simplicity, accuracy, and security for roaming. This service can also help ensure that roaming-related revenue is captured and accounted for as a standard practice.”

The launch of VeriSign’s own GSM settlement and exchange services enable operators to support non-customer roamers and receive industry validation and processing in standard Transferred Account Procedure (TAP) format. SES GSM also provides error correction, out-collect billing, ratings and revenue assurance, and a flexible web-based reporting interface that enables effective analysis and tracking of financial positions with roaming partners worldwide. 

The fully managed service is designed to easily integrate with commerce services that are part of VeriSign’s Intelligent Communications, Commerce and Content (IC3) portfolio, such as pre- and post-paid billing and customer self-care and analysis.

As GSM networks proliferate and consumer demand for global roaming grows, carriers want solutions capable of handling the increased complexity of tracking and settling roaming-related charges.  

Yankee Group anticipates that the GSM migration path will increase its dominance, reaching 82% of the 2.8 billion registered lines in service by 2009 (just less than 652 million lines added cumulatively between 2005 and 2009).

VeriSign currently provides clearing services to 35 carriers, 16 of which are GSM operators.

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