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New Delhi, 26rd February 2018: Subex has been announced as the winner in “Data Science” category for their innovation “ROC Insights” at Aegis Graham Bell Award 2017, honoring the best innovation in the ICT domain in India. Subex has been applauded as winner at the 8^th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Award (AGBA) at NDMC Convention Center, New Delhi.

Aegis Graham Bell has been promoting innovations and entrepreneurship in Telecom, Data Science, Smart City Solution, Cyber Security, Digital India, Cloud and Mobility. AGBA has been rewarding those who made outstanding contribution in these fields since 7 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators, for India to become a nucleus of innovations.

“ROC Insights demonstrated its capability to democratize the adoption of advanced analytics across the enterprise through its innovative storyboard approach,” – Mr Bhupesh Daheria, Trustee, Aegis Knowledge Trust, Founder and CEO, Aegis School of Business, Data Science & Telecom, mUniversity, Aegis Graham Bell Awards & Data Science Congress. “It has successfully scaled the application of Data Science and Machine Learning to massive volumes of data. An instance of the use cases showcased the development of a modeling approach to identify billing dispute triggers as well as an ensemble model of invoice risk and temporal-based prediction. The customized RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) modeling approach facilitates financial risk management by predicting disputes.”

Speaking on the award win, Vinod Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, ‎Subex said, “It gives us great pride to receive the prestigious Aegis Graham Bell Award in the Data Science Category. ROC Insights is our Analytics-as-a-Service offering which helps users truly leverage their data to gain actionable insights quickly and in a consumable manner. In our endeavor to partner with our customers in their digital transformation journey, ROC Insights plays an important role in helping organizations be data-driven through the democratization of data science.”

About Subex

Subex is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos. Founded in 1992, Subex has spent over 25 years in enabling 3/4th of the largest 50 CSPs globally achieve competitive advantage. By leveraging data which is gathered across networks, customers, and systems coupled with its domain knowledge and the capabilities of its core solutions, Subex helps CSPs to drive new business models, enhance customer experience and optimise enterprises. Subex leverages its award-winning analytics solutions in areas such as Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Asset Assurance and Partner Management, and complements them through its newer solutions such as IoT Security. Subex also offers scalable Managed Services and Business Consulting services. Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

For more information, visit: www.subex.com/

About Aegis Graham Bell Award

The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the largest innovation award for the ICT domain in India. The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Convergence India and Deloitte as a knowledge partner.

LONDON, UK – Subex, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, has been selected by Pod Solutions, a division of Pod Group to implement its IoT Security Solution, Subex Secure, as part of Pod Group’s billing and connectivity service.

Pod Group designs platforms for the people building tomorrow’s connected world. These include billing, connectivity and security services for IoT companies across a wide variety of sectors as well as enterprises and operators for millions of devices globally. Pod Solutions is the customized development division of Pod Group which partners with industry leaders to build tools that reduce the complexity and accelerate the adoption of IoT applications.

The partnership with Subex will enable Pod Solutions to develop advanced security services, allowing customers to rapidly create, deploy and bill mission critical IoT solutions with maximum security and resilience.

Speaking on the announcement, Alistair Elliott, CEO, Pod Solutions said, “Today, the security of IoT applications is one of the issues causing most concern and is therefore one of the biggest barriers to IoT adoption. We are excited to be partnering with Subex, since we identified them as a leading provider of IoT Security solutions that would be complementary to our existing network architecture and IoT business models. The Subex IoT solution- Subex Secure allows us to scale towards providing the most cutting-edge security solutions to millions of IoT devices, thereby providing us with a competitive advantage.”

“It gives us great pleasure to partner with Pod Solutions to provide resilience to their connectivity services. We were selected after a very comprehensive evaluation, wherein we proved our capability to detect various attacks through Subex threat intelligence system, leveraging our industry leading IoT honeypot. These coupled with our flexible business model and non-intrusive approach helped us to secure this partnership” said Vinod Kumar, COO, Subex.

About Pod Solutions

Pod Solutions is the customized development division of Pod Group, a provider of platforms for the people building tomorrow’s connected world. We work to solve the most complex connectivity issues, utilizing the latest technology from our community of technology partners to develop innovative solutions to the problems that are creating barriers to IoT adoption. Pod Solutions works with cutting edge technologies and connectivity methods, collaborating with industry leaders to build a strong and lucrative IoT ecosystem.

Visit www.pod.solutions for more information

About Subex

Visit www.subex.com/ for more information

BENGALURU, INDIA – Subex Ltd, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2017.

Performance Highlights for the quarter ended December 31, 2017:
Revenue for the quarter at Rs. 8,643 lacs
- Up by 7% QoQ from Rs.8,106 lacs in FY18 Q2
- License & Implementation at 36%, Managed Services at 32% & Support at 32% of the total revenues

Profitability
- EBIDTA ex-forex for the quarter at Rs. 1,745 lacs up by 57% from Rs. 1,112 lacs in FY18 Q2
- Profit after Tax (PAT) for the quarter at Rs. 361 lacs up by 19% from 304 lacs in FY18 Q2

Highlights of the quarter
- Subex secured a multi-million-dollar deal with a tier 1 Group having telecom operations in Middle East and Africa to implement its Business & Application Managed Services.
- Successfully renewed existing Group Framework Agreement (GFA) with a leading African telecommunications company for its ROC Revenue Assurance and ROC Fraud Management Solutions for 5 years.
- A leading Latin American telecommunications company has contracted Subex to implement Subex’s Integrated ROC Revenue Assurance & ROC Fraud Management platform, across their fixed line, mobile and enterprise businesses.
- Shortlisted for Aegis Graham Bell Awards 2017 for Analytics and Managed Services, and for Converge 2018 Awards for Analytics

Surjeet Singh, Managing Director & CEO, Subex Limited said, “We have ended the third quarter positively with increased EBITDA and Profit after Tax. The quarter has witnessed the closure of a few significant deals and we have also made strides towards improving our products to help CSPs handle the newer challenges that come with digital transformation. We look forward to showcasing our IoT Security and Analytics solutions along with our flagship offerings such as ROC Revenue Assurance, ROC Fraud Management, ROC Partner Settlement and ROC Network Asset Management at MWC 2018.”

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Founded in 1992, Subex has spent over 25 years in enabling 3/4th of the largest 50 CSPs globally achieve competitive advantage. By leveraging data which is gathered across networks, customers, and systems coupled with its domain knowledge and the capabilities of its core solutions, Subex helps CSPs to drive new business models, enhance customer experience and optimise enterprises.

Subex leverages its award-winning product portfolio in areas such as Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Asset Assurance and Partner Management, and complements them through its digital solutions such as IoT Security and Insights. Subex also offers scalable Managed Services and Business Consulting services.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

BENGALURU, INDIA – Subex Ltd, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.

Performance Highlights for the quarter ended September 30,2017:
Revenue for the quarter at Rs.8,106 lacs
- Up by 6% QoQ from Rs.7,618 lacs in FY18 Q1
- License & Implementation at 33%, Managed Services at 33% & Support at 34% of the total revenues

Profitability
- EBIDTA ex-forex for the quarter at Rs.1,112 lacs up by 17% from Rs. 954 lacs in FY18 Q1
- Profit after Tax (PAT) for the quarter at Rs.304 lacs upfrom loss of Rs.101 lacs in FY18 Q1
Highlights of the quarter
- Won a multi-million dollar deal with a leading APAC telecom operator to implement its ROC Asset Assurance Solution for Capex Optimization and managing the lifecycle of its network assets.
- Pioneered Real Time Revenue Assurance by deploying the largest implementation for Real-time Revenue Assurance for a top-tier Indian telecom service provider through its ROC Revenue Assurance solution.
- Won a multi-million dollargroup deal with a leading European TV and broadbandprovider which has got operation across multiple European countries to deploy its ROC Partner Settlement managed services.
- Launched Subex Consulting and Advisory Services, blending strategy and execution to deliver business assurance for global telecom operators, specifically around the domains such as risk, margin, maturity and transformation.
- Successfully hosted the 14^th edition of the Subex User Conference in Zagreb, Croatia on 24^th– 25^th October 2017. The theme of the conference was “Digitalisation: Mirroring Opportunities with Reality”, and focused around implementation and operational aspects of digital transformation. The conference witnessed the participation from 100+ delegates from leading telcos across the globe.
- Launch its new website https://www.subex.com/ in line with its repositioning towards being an analytics solution provider. The new website represents Subex 3.0 messaging: “Drive New Business Models, Enhance Customer Experience and Optimize Enterprise”

Surjeet Singh, Managing Director & CEO, Subex Limited said, “The quarter ended on a positive note wherein we were successfully able to close a number of large multi-dollar deals. This achievement has certainly reflected in the results for this quarter, where we have seen an improved growth rate with an increased EBITDA as well as Profit after Tax. The positive results are also on the back of a very successful User Conference which played an excellent platform for us to connect with our customers and understand the challenges they face in the digital era.”

We continue to make necessary investments in our portfolio, people and processes to augment our competitive edge to partner with our customers in digital future. Our recently concluded customer conference reinforced our Strategic agenda of standing for driving new businesses for our customers and enhance and optimize current enterprise. I am confident that our initiatives will yield results in midterm even as short term deflationary challenges and increased cycle times are headwinds in short term.

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

BANGALORE, INDIA – Subex Ltd, a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, today announced the launch of its Consulting and Advisory Services. The announcement was made during the 14th edition ofthe SubexUser Conference which is the company’s flagship global conference.

Subex’s Consulting and Advisory services blends strategy with execution to deliver tangible outcomes around business assurance. Through the Consulting and Advisory Services, Subex leverages its 25 years of experience and expertise in the telecom domain, with over 200-plus customers. Subex deploys flexible engagement models that are best suited to CSPbusiness dynamics.

Speaking on the announcement, Vinod Kumar, COO, Subex Ltd. said, “We are extremely excited to announce the launch of our Consulting and Advisory Services. These services will leverage Subex’s domain and technology experience to drive top floor to shop floor execution, i.e. strategy to execution in order to provide business assurance and operational excellence for global telecom players. Our product agnostics consulting and advisory services gives us a strategic edge byadding the consulting layer to the already available technology, solution and services layer.”

Subex’s Consulting and Advisory services will cover all aspects of the telecom business assurance requirements, specifically around the domains of Risk, Margin, Maturity and Transformation.

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

BANGALORE, INDIA – Subex Ltd, a leading telecom analytics solutions provider announced that it will be hosting the 14th edition of its Global User Conference from 24th to 25th of October, 2017 at Zagreb, Croatia. The theme of the conference will be ‘Digitalisation: Mirroring Opportunities with Reality”, and will focus around the implementation and operational aspects of digital transformation. The Subex User Conference 2017 will be attended by delegates from leading wireless and wireline operators across the globe.

This year’s User Conference will be presided over by two eminent personalities in the telecom domain: Mr. Dean Smith, Founder & CEO, Assuring Business and Mr. Carl Lyon, Managing Director, Perpetual Experience Limited. Among the keynote speakers for this year’s User Conference is RohitTalwar, Futurist and CEO – Future Research, Dana Adams, Director of Security Services at Telus, Andreas Manolis, Head of Strategy & Risk, Group Revenue Assurance at BT Group, andProfessor Paul J. Morrissey C.Eng., F.I.E.E., Global Ambassador of TMForum. Also speaking at the event will be Debra Shindler, Senior Director Revenue Assurance, T-Mobile,Laura Iglesias Febrero, Head of Cyber Security, Telefonica, and User Conference veteran Eric Priezkalns, Steering Committee Member, RAG Forum & Editor, CommsRisk.

Vinod Kumar, COO, Subex Ltd. said, “The Annual Subex User Conference provides an excellent platform for operators, futurists, media and analysts to exchange knowledge and discuss about the ever-changing dynamics of the industry. This year the event will focus around the theme ‘Digitalisation: Mirroring Opportunities with Reality’ and will aim to take ‘digitalisation’ from being merely a buzzword to focus on its practical aspects in terms of its implementation and operational facets.”

The ‘Subex Operator Excellence Awards’ also makes it return for the third year. The Subex Operator Excellence Awards aims to recognize forward thinking customers and partners who have been in the forefront of adopting the best practices in the industry and have showcased new standards of excellence and innovations in the telecom space. The awards will be presented on the 2nd day of the conference on Oct 25th, 2017.

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

LONDON, UK – Subex Limited, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, has been selected by ElevenPaths, Telefonica Cybersecurity Unit to offer a Fraud Management-as a- Service (FMaaS) solution. Telefonica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, with a global presence in 21 countries and an average of 125.000 professionals and 350 million accesses.

The agreement between Telefonica and Subex will result in the new ’Telefonica FMaaS Powered by Subex’ to protect against a comprehensive set of digital risks and threats, along with a library of fraud detection processes. The solution addresses Subscription Fraud, Internal Fraud, Premium Rate Service Fraud (PRS Fraud), and International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF), amongst others. Additionally, ROC Fraud Management technology deployed by Subex will deliver the ability to deploy client-specific detection processes, techniques and strategies, based on particular business needs at each site.

“We are excited to partner with Telefonica for enabling Subex’s industry leading ROC Fraud Management Solution. In the process of undergoing digital transformation, organizations today foresee emerging threats and newer frauds, due to which customers are demanding real-time and proactive fraud management solutions. This partnership is an important step to make our customers more successful in the years to come whilst they transform themselves for the Digital Journey ahead” said Surjeet Singh, CEO & MD, Subex Limited.

“We are delighted with our partnership with Subex, a global leader in managing fraud in the digital world. Compared to traditional solutions, the enablement of FMaaS will ensure much faster deployment times, providing far more flexibility, easier access and agility, to our business operations. Subex’ capabilities together with ElevenPaths’ expertise in the development, deployment and operation of antifraud products and services across the world, will enable us to deliver customised Fraud Risk & Business Resilience though a best-of-breed Adaptive & Convergent Fraud Risk Management Solution. This, in turn, will help our customers deal with fraud risks more quickly and effectively”, said Pedro Pablo Perez García, CEO of ElevenPaths.

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About ElevenPaths

At ElevenPaths, Telefónica Cybersecurity Unit, we believe in the idea of challenging the status-quo in Security, an attribute that must always be present in technology. We are always redefining the relationship between security and individuals. We aim at creating innovative products, which can transform their experience, helping them to keep one-step ahead of attackers, an increasing threat to our digital life.

About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos. Founded in 1992, Subex has spent over 25 years in enabling 3/4th of the largest 50 CSPs to globally achieve competitive advantage. By leveraging data which is gathered across networks, customers, and systems coupled with its domain knowledge and the capabilities of its core solutions, Subex helps CSPs to drive new business models, enhance customer experience and optimise enterprises.

For more information, please visit: www.subex.com/

LONDON, UK – Subex Ltd, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, has announced that it has been awarded the Global Telecoms Business Innovation (GTB) Awards 2017 along with STC in the ‘Enterprise Service Innovation’ category for its Managed Services offering.

GTB recognizes the industry’s most innovative & successful project partnerships between the operators and vendors over the last 12 months and showcases the very best projects featuring entries from every corner of industry to reveal the latest innovations, be it application, design, network or product.

Subex and STC entered into a strategic partnership program with the objective of building a proactive Fraud Management function through a combination of best practices, domain expertise, tool capabilities and analytics. As part of Managed Services (MS), Subex provided multiple services to STC across areas of Application Support, Business Operations, 24X7 Application Monitoring and Database (DB) & Operating Systems (OS) monitoring – all provided under one roof with KPIs like 99.5% system availability.

Vinod Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, Subex, said, “It is an honour to have won the prestigious GTB Award along with STC for the ‘Enterprise Service Innovation’ category. This win is a testament to the effectiveness of our Managed Services model wherein our offering successfully helped STC enhance its revenue assurance and fraud mitigation initiatives. Further, we are extending our capabilities to help telcos navigate new risks around the digital space and also provide a comprehensive solution on IOT Security.”

Faisal A. Alhatlani, Administration Systems Director-STC said “In Subex we have found a partner who can take the next level of fraud management challenges successfully. This move was critical for us with our expanding footprint and exponentially increasing number of subscribers. This MS engagement has empowered us to optimise resources and focus on core-business and strategic initiatives. A highly skilled team from Subex handled FM IT part for continuous improvements”.

Elaborating on the award nominations, Alan Burkitt-Gray, Executive Editor of Global Telecoms Business and Capacity, said, “We had a superb range of projects nominated for this year’s awards, the eleventh time Global Telecoms Business has presented our annual Innovation Awards. Each year since 2007 we’ve seen how the industry is getting more innovative and more imaginative about serving customers as technology advances. To get through the first hurdle and be shortlisted is already a great tribute to the quality of work here, and to go on to win an award shows an excellent level of innovation in driving demand for better quality services. Congratulations.”

This is the sixth time Subex has won the prestigious GTB Innovation Awards. Subex Managed Services offerings are designed to drive new business models, enhance customer experience and optimize CSP enterprises, pillared on four primary aspects of Cost, Quality, Time-to-market and Capability. Our engagements are aimed at providing rapid ROI and increasing efficiency.

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Founded in 1992, Subex has spent over 25 years in enabling 3/4^th of the largest 50 CSPs globally achieve competitive advantage. By leveraging data which is gathered across networks, customers, and systems coupled with its domain knowledge and the capabilities of its core solutions, Subex helps CSPs to drive new business models, enhance customer experience and optimise enterprises.

Subex leverages its award-winning analytics solutions in areas such as Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Asset Assurance and Partner Management, and complements them through its newer solutions such as IoT Security. Subex also offers scalable Managed Services and Business Consulting services.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.

LONDON, UK – Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of Business Support Systems (BSS) for Communications Service Providers (CSPs), has announced that it has been declared the Winner at the prestigious 2017 Pipeline Innovation Awards in the ‘Innovations in Managed Services’, and the Runner-up in the ‘Innovations in Security & Assurance’ category. The Award function was held at Nice, France on May 15, 2017.

The ‘Innovations in Managed Services’ category recognizes innovative technology solutions in the IT managed services domain that enable increased business value and alignment between the IT and business functions. On the other hand, the ‘Innovations in Security & Assurance’ category recognizes innovations that protect service providers operations, revenues, and business from error, fraud, and malicious attack.

For the ‘Innovations in Managed Services’ category, Subex successfully showcased how its Managed Services helps CSPs globally to stay on the growth path while driving business outcomes and protecting revenues backed by strong domain, technology, and operational expertise. In terms of the ‘Innovations in Security & Assurance’ category, Subex’s IoT Security and Fraud Management solutions have taken the leap forward in countering security and fraud in new areas such as IoT, Digital and OTT.

“The ‘Innovations in Managed Services’ and ‘The Innovations in Security & Assurance’ categories were both extremely competitive and Subex’s submissions in these areas were successful in best demonstrating the value delivered to CSPs,” said Scott St. John, Executive Editor Pipeline magazine “I would like to congratulate Subex on the awards they have won during this year’s highly contested Pipeline Awards and it’s a testament the innovation occurring at Subex which has been validated by the service provider executives who served on this year’s judging panel.”

Ashwin Chalapathy, Chief Technology Officer, Subex Ltd. said “We are extremely proud to be awarded the prestigious 2017 Pipeline Innovation award in two categories. Our expertise and thought leadership in the Security, Fraud Management and Managed Services space have been recognized across the globe through our industry leading solution, and the Pipeline Awards plays a significant role in showcasing our excellence in these spaces.”

The Innovation Awards program recognizes prominent industry innovators based on extensive evaluation, objective selection, and validation by the third-party judges of the program which include technical executives from companies such as AT&T, BT, Telenor and Windstream, besides other operators and analysts.

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About Subex

Subex Ltd. is a leading telecom analytics solutions provider, enabling a digital future for global telcos.

Subex has more than 300 installations across 90+ countries.