Prestigious Award Recognizes Industry Leaders That Make Significant Contributions to Advance Digital Business Transformation

NICE, FRANCE — June 2, 2015 – NetCracker Technology announced today that it was selected as a winner in the 2015 TM Forum Excellence Awards. NetCracker was recognized in the category of Customer Centricity for its Customer Management solutions.

TM Forum announced the Excellence Awards winners at its flagship TM Forum Live! 2015 conference and expo in Nice, France, during the VIP Gala dinner on Monday, June 1, at the prestigious Palais de la Méditerranée. TM Forum also highlighted the winners during the opening keynote session at TM Forum Live! on Tuesday, June 2.

NetCracker is the leading provider of BSS/OSS as well as SDN/NFV solutions for communications service providers around the world. Its flagship product suite, NetCracker 10, fundamentally redefines the economics of network deployment and management, IT operations, customer experience and service creation and delivery.

“Congratulations to NetCracker for its recognition in the 2015 TM Forum Excellence Awards,” said Peter Sany, President and CEO of TM Forum. “Operational and solution excellence, innovation, and digital industry leadership exemplify the winners of this prestigious award. Our sincere congratulations to NetCracker for its commitment to innovation and taking a leading role in making digital business a reality for the industry as a whole.”

The TM Forum Excellence Awards program, now in its ninth year, acknowledges TM Forum members’ contributions and commitment to developing best practices that take the digital industry in new and innovative directions. Winners are leading service providers and technology suppliers that demonstrate tangible business results and a commitment to the future of the industry through innovation, underpinned by TM Forum’s Frameworx™ suite of best practices and standards.

The winners of the 2015 TM Forum Excellence Awards were selected by an impartial and independent panel of leading industry experts and analysts, including Elisabeth Rainge, research vice president, CSP operations, IDC; Kiran Thomas, vice president, products and innovation, Reliance Jio; Pascal Viginier, group CIO, Orange; Keith Willetts, founder and former chairman & CEO, TM Forum; Julie Woods-Moss, chief marketing officer & CEO of Nextgen Business, Tata Communications Ltd.; and Michael Wu, chief executive officer, Asiainfo. The judging panel was led by Chairman Steffen Roehn, CEO, Roehn Management Consulting GmbH and former group chief information officer of Deutsche Telekom.

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

Based on its Mid-term Management Plan 2015, the NEC Group globally provides “Solutions for Society” that promote the safety, security, efficiency and equality of society. Under the company’s corporate message of “Orchestrating a brighter world,” NEC aims to help solve a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please visit http://www.nec.com/en/global/about/solutionsforsociety/message.html.

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About NetCracker Technology

NetCracker Technology, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is the proven partner for communications service providers and cable operators offering comprehensive, end-to-end solutions and delivery capabilities to optimize their enterprise. With its global reach, leading-edge technology, and unbroken track record of successful implementations, NetCracker helps eliminate operational and business silos and delivers real-time experience in an on-demand world. For more information, please visit www.NetCracker.com.

NetCracker is a registered trademark of NetCracker Technology Corp. All other company or product names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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