The ECT Group is Europe’s leading developer of value-added telecom services. With our virtualized platform (AS/MRF), innovative service applications and Joint Agile Product Development Program, major communications service providers worldwide realize products with minimal costs and the shortest possible time-to-market. We also migrate services from legacy, bare-metal platforms, innovating and consolidating them into one solution based on our VNFs with the option of full integration with a third-party VNF Manager, providing Automated Lifecycle Management. ECT provides core services, like SMSC, voicemail, MMS, WAP, carrier routing, NP, NTS, IVR, FMU, etc. and sophisticated services, e.g. for cloud call centers, UCC, workstream collaboration, chatbots, etc. We empower BT, Deutsche Telekom, DNA, Hi3G, izzi, KCOM, KPN, Liberty Global, Proximus, TalkTalk, Teliasonera, Totalplay, Virgin Media, Videocon, VodafoneZiggo, among many others. In addition to our own direct sales and service primarily in Europe, we also partner with Nokia Software, which offers our products and services worldwide. Together with our customers and partner Nokia, we at ECT enjoy meeting challenges and creating opportunities. Founded in 1998, ECT is an unlisted German public company with its headquarters in Munich, Germany, and wholly owned sales and service subsidiaries in England, The Netherlands and the USA. www.ect-telecoms.com For more information on this press release, please contact: communications@ect-telecoms.de