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Leading Telecommunications Company Realizes Decrease in Bad-Debt/Increase in Approvals with Decisioning Solutions' PROFILER™ Tool

March 1, 2007- Toronto, Ontario, Canada - SaskTel, the leading full-service communications company in Saskatchewan, has seen enormous benefit since adopting the Decisioning Solutions' predictive model, PROFILER™. A long time customer of Decisioning Solutions, SaskTel has implemented the PROFILER™ model to be used in conjunction with the tools they currently use through Decisioning Solutions' Decision Suite™, which is offered out to a number of industries.

PROFILER™ was developed in 2004 by Decisioning Solutions and is the first custom bad-debt propensity model for customers with limited to no credit bureau data. PROFILER™ is widely used in the North American telecommunications industry to identify potential bad-debt risks at the point of acquisition. It is also used for other valuable applications such as targeted pre-approvals, existing customer value management initiatives, and retention/recovery strategies, which are also available for use throughout the consumer lifecycle. PROFILER™ is customized to each organization's customer/account performance and profiles, and it can effectively enhance any credit decision strategy.

"The PROFILER™ tool has been extremely effective since we implemented it into our processes," said Mark Thomas, Manager of Accounts Receivable for SaskTel's Consumer and Enterprise Solutions. "We have seen higher approval rates and a decrease in bad-debt, specifically on individuals where credit bureau data is not available. As always, Decisioning Solutions are a step ahead with their innovations and very responsive in applying those innovations to our credit decisioning strategy, which has so far proven to be very effective."

About SaskTel

SaskTel is the leading full-service communications provider in Saskatchewan, offering competitive voice, data, dial-up and high speed internet, entertainment and multimedia services, security, web hosting, text and messaging services over its digital network. The Corporation also provides cellular and wireless data services through SaskTel Mobility, security monitoring services through SecurTek, directory services through DirectWest, in-room communications services to the healthcare sector through Hospitality Network, telecommunications consulting service through SaskTel International and national telecommunications services through Navigata Communications. Visit SaskTel at www.SaskTel.com

About Decisioning Solutions Inc.

Decisioning Solutions Inc., with its head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, provides organizations with industry-leading state-of-the-art customer decisioning and ancillary solutions for use throughout the customer lifecycle. The solutions are 100% customer administered and configured without IT or vendor involvement and deliver unparalleled flexibility and robust capabilities with extreme ease of implementation and configuration.

Decisioning Solutions offers application processing systems, decision retrieval tools, data mining/reporting tools, and predictive modeling solutions to empower the decision-making process from pre-acquisition to retention. Decisioning Solutions also provides customers with an array of sophisticated decisioning features such as unlimited champion/challenger, tri-score matrixing, derived variables and predictive model hosting.

Decisioning Solutions is changing the way companies make customer decisions by turning data into knowledge, knowledge into action, action into profit. Visit www.decisioningsolutions.com, or email info@decisioningsolutions.com