Boston Communications Group, Inc.
Integrates BillSoft’s EZTax®
Lenexa, KS, October 10, 2005: BillSoft, Inc., the market leader for taxation, and Boston Communications Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCGI), a provider of products and solutions that enable wireless operators to rapidly deploy and manage innovative voice and data services, today announced the integration of BillSoft’s EZTax product with bcgi’s Voyager billing system. This integration will further enhance bcgi’s ability to perform accurate tax jurisdiction assignments and calculations.
“bcgi offers a great billing product and we are very excited for the opportunity to work together,” comments Vicki Klein, President of BillSoft. “We believe EZTax offers the best performance and the most accurate taxation solution in the marketplace. Taxing in excess of 1.6 billion transactions per hour, EZTax is by far the highest performance system available today. With the integration of EZTax and Voyager, customers will enjoy a seamless operation that is cost-effective,” added Klein.
“We’re pleased to integrate the EZTax solution with Voyager Billing,” said Jim Hunt, General Manager of Voyager Billing for bcgi. “As a service provider, the complex task of calculating communication taxes is staggering. The solution has helped streamline our taxation requirements and enabled us to provide a more comprehensive billing system to our customers.”
BillSoft is the only provider of “Your Total Tax Solution”, a complete beginning to end, fully integrated tax system. Your Total Tax Solution allows clients to keep all their taxation requirements with one provider. Customers can enjoy the benefits of the integrated system or utilize only the pieces that they need. By also offering the individual pieces of the solution separately, BillSoft gives clients the ability to purchase distinct products to suit their specific needs. Your Total Tax Solution provides address scrubbing, jurisdiction assignment, tax rating, tax customization, tax viewing, compliance filing, and tax consulting services.
bcgi Voyager Billing is an end-to-end system that enables operators to get to market quickly and easily manage billing, customer care, mediation and retail operations. The integration of BillSoft’s EZTax with Voyager helps ensure clients will receive the benefits of efficient and accurate collection of all communications and sales and use taxes.
About BillSoft, Inc.
BillSoft specializes in enhancing billing systems and service bureau products by providing taxation, data customization, address scrubbing, jurisdiction assignment, and compliance filing solutions. BillSoft’s "Your Total Tax Solution" consists of EZTax®, EZDataTM, EZFileTM, BillSoft Online, EZGeoTM, EZTax Viewer, tax compliance filing, and tax consulting services. BillSoft’s flagship product, EZTax, is the most comprehensive communications tax package available. With the availability of taxation for products and services in over 80 countries, EZTax provides the most comprehensive tax system for the best overall value. EZTax supports all major platform environments and offers a number of different interfaces with the standard product. In addition, BillSoft is partnered with billing and OSS providers, providing communications companies with a one-stop approach to a seamless billing/taxation system. For more information about BillSoft, Inc., please visit www.billsoft.com.
About Boston Communications Group, Inc.
Boston Communications Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCGI) develops products and services that enable wireless operators to fully realize the potential of their networks. bcgi's access management, billing, payment and network solutions help operators rapidly deploy and manage innovative voice and data services for subscribers. Available as licensed products and fully managed services, bcgi's solutions empower carriers and enable MVNOs with market-leading implementations of prepaid wireless, postpaid billing, wireless account funding and m-commerce. bcgi was founded in 1988 and is listed on the Russell 2000 index. For more information, visit www.bcgi.net.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Chris Harrall
Boston Communications Group, Inc.
Phone: (781) 904-5321
Email: CHarrall@bcgi.net
Or
Heidi Winters
BillSoft, Inc.
Phone: (800) 525-8175
Email: hwinters@billsoft.com
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