About Entriq

With 25 years of pay media experience, Entriq Inc.

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These subscribers include DIRECTV
Latin America, CANAL Digital, CANAL+ and MultiChoice. Included are six data channels that
introduce the first interactive television offerings on the continent. and
Shanghai Cable.

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Research and Markets: Up-and-Coming Opportunities Investigated in Southern Africa's Telecom Mobile and Broadband Markets

DUBLIN, Ireland, Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Southern and Indian Ocean
Region to their offering.com/cgi-bin/prnh /20040820/RESEARCH )
This report examines the Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband markets in Angola ,
Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, Swaziland , Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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With the latest version of the Entriq
IBS in place, for example, MultiChoice has developed a Web-based
interface to increase efficiency and ease-of-use for its subsidiaries
throughout Africa.entriq.researchandmarkets.

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4 of the Entriq IBS System
Considered a "Quantum Leap" for MultiChoice , Africa's Largest Pay
Television Operator

Entriq(TM), Inc. Currently , more than twenty pay-TV operators and Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) use the software to support more than seven
million subscribers in 44 countries. Entriq clients include some of the world's largest
content, network and service providers in the pay media industry,
including DIRECTV, MTV Networks , M-Net, WWE, NBC Universal, Inc.

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, a leading company that provides pay media
services to leading content providers, ISPs, and cable operators
worldwide and a subsidiary of the multinational media group Naspers
(Nasdaq:NPSN)(JSE:NPN), today announced the completion of a
significant upgrade by MultiChoice Africa to the latest version of the
Entriq Integrated Billing System (IBS)."

The Entriq Integrated Billing System (IBS)

Entriq licenses the billing and customer care portions of its
platform . Entriq provides security, billing, and customer care for
both broadcast, mobile and online media ., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers (Nasdaq:NPSN).

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The MultiChoice upgrade marks
the culmination of an ambitious effort to provide Entriq's
high-quality SMS service and software to Africa's largest pay
television operator. The
API, a major component of the new version, enables the development of
additional custom functionality on top of the core, and gives our
clients a clear, competitive advantage. In
between are relatively wealthy nations like Botswana and Namibia which benefit
from their close ties with South Africa, and the island nation of Mauritius,
sporting some of the best telecoms indicators of the continent.

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According to MultiChoice, the upgrade to the most recent version
of the Entriq IBS is extremely beneficial, offering the company open
application program interfaces (APIs), which allow unlimited
customization of the software.
Operations include world-class subscriber management services and
digital satellite television platforms broadcasting 55 video and 48
audio channels 24 hours a day. Entriq's products and
services give content and service providers the complete tools needed
to protect, manage and publish valuable media assets they wish to
track and/or sell .com/reports/c14014

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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6 to 5. Entriq's
licensable software is comprised of a complete solution for all phases
of customer relationship management, and includes both an intuitive,
customizable Explorer-style user interface for CSRs as well as many
automated background capabilities. provides the
only comprehensive management and protection solution for Pay Media
worldwide.
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Entriq Upgrades MultiChoice Africa to Latest Version of Its IBS Customer Care and Billing System

"With this upgrade to the latest version of the Entriq IBS,
MultiChoice now moves forward with a future-proof system," said Carole
Cluttey , vice president of the IBS business group. For more
information visit http://www.

Each country has its own chapter and covers the following subjects:

- Key Statistics
- Market Overview
- Regulatory Environment
- Major Players
- Infrastructure
- Fixed network Services
- Data
- Internet
- Broadband
- Convergence
- Mobile Communications
- Broadcasting

For more information visit
http: //www.

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Business Editors

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Upgrade to Version 5. "The migration from IBS 4. and has a
regional service center in the Netherlands.

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About MultiChoice Africa

MultiChoice Africa provides premium television entertainment
through its DStv, Indian, Portuguese and Arabic bouquets to 1,000,000
subscribers in South Africa and a total of 310,000 subscribers across
countries on the African continent and adjacent Indian Ocean islands.

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Entriq is based in San Diego , Calif.

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4 will really be a
quantum leap for the entire business," said Nico Meyer, chief
financial officer at MultiChoice, referring to the upgrade project's
internal code name, the "Quantum Leap Project. "By making use of
the versatility in the Configuration Module, MultiChoice can quickly
roll out new services in anticipation of new market conditions. Entriq is a division of
MIH Ltd.com

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their respective owners.

The diversity among the countries in this group is immense, ranging from
South Africa which has the continent's most advanced telecommunications
networks and markets, to countries which have only recently emerged from civil
war like Angola and Mozambique and which are consequently at a very low level
of development, even though their mobile markets are growing very rapidly.