USCS Extends Customer Management and Billing System Contract With MediaOne; Agreement Encompasses Additional Products and Services

Business Wire, August 11, 1998

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 1998--USCS International Inc. (NASDAQ:USCS) today announced that its CableData Inc. subsidiary has secured an extension of its customer management and billing contract with MediaOne(R) (NYSE:UMG), the nation's third-largest multiple system operator.

The multi-year agreement extends MediaOne's use of CableData's industry-leading customer management and billing products and services to serve its cable television subscribers nationwide.

Mike McGrail, president of CableData, commented. "We're pleased to renew and enhance our contract with MediaOne, one of the industry's most respected MSOs. CableData places a very high value on the long-term relationship we've maintained with MediaOne. We're also proud of the flexibility we've jointly developed to address the challenges MediaOne will encounter as it embraces new technologies. We look forward to expanding our future working partnership and helping MediaOne continue to deliver leading-edge services to its customers."

The CableData-MediaOne agreement also includes additional and advanced products and services such as: -0-

--   Expansion of MediaOne's high-speed data services, using its
     customization of CableData's HSDS architecture and provisioning
     software. MediaOne was a pioneer and remains a leader in offering
     high-speed data services nation-wide;
--   Joint testing of a MediaOne-developed, customized graphical user
     interface (GUI) to the CableData system that will facilitate
     MediaOne's customer care operations;
--   Joint testing of a MediaOne work force management application
     based on CableData's MobileVantage(TM) interface, and;
--   Use of CableData's credit interface to pre-qualify subscribers
     and CableData's electronic funds transfer interface to roll out
     EFTS capabilities.

MediaOne, the nation's leading Broadband services company, provides entertainment, information, and communications services to more than 5.1 million subscribers in 17 states. MediaOne Group (NYSE:UMG) is one of the world's largest broadband communications companies, bringing the power of broadband and the Internet to more than seven million customers in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The company also has interests in some of the fastest-growing wireless communications businesses outside the U.S., serving more than three million customers. For 1997, the businesses now part of MediaOne Group produced $6.6 billion in proportionate revenue.

CableData Inc. is a leading provider of customer care and open billing solutions to the global communications industry and is a USCS International company. USCS is a leading global provider of customer management software and statement processing to the communications and other service industries, which serve more than 75 million end-users world-wide.

In the United States, the company currently provides its services to clients serving more than 50 percent of all cable television subscribers, 40 percent of all cellular users and 11 percent of wire-line telephony customers and to a variety of other service providers.

USCS International's clients include cable television, wireless and wire-line telephony, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and multi-service providers in more than 20 countries. More information on USCS can be found at www.uscs.com.

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