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Fair Isaac and Optel Informatik Launch Mobile Industry's First Joint Data Exchange Gateway to Fight Roaming Fraud



    Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of
    analytics and decision management technology, and Optel Informatik, a
    German systems supplier for the telecommunications market, today
    announced the mobile industry's first Near Real-Time Roaming Data
    Exchange (NRTRDE) gateway to help wireless operators worldwide prevent
    roaming fraud.

    The NRTRDE gateway connects Fair Isaac's RoamEx(R) Roamer Data
    Exchanger network to Optel's MEGS-R network, enabling an automatic,
    two-way exchange of roaming traffic in near real time. The resulting
    combined coverage forms the world's largest NRTRDE network, with more
    than 90 mobile operator networks involved.

    Roaming fraud accounts for a high proportion of all fraud in
    telecommunications. It occurs when a mobile phone subscriber who does
    not intend to pay for service roams from the service provider's
    network to another operator network and takes advantage of the home
    operator's delayed access to the subscriber's call detail records
    while roaming. An individual roaming fraud incident can result in a
    loss of more than EUR 1 million (US$ 1.3 million) within a matter of a
    few days.

    As the trade association for the world's leading global mobile
    standard with more than two billion subscribers, the GSM Association
    has recognized this problem and has decided to pursue NRTRDE adoption
    by all GSM operators by October 2008.

    By linking their RoamEx and MEGS-R systems, Fair Isaac and Optel
    can offer unsurpassed roaming call visibility to operators who
    subscribe to either network. Operators connected to either RoamEx or
    the MEGS-R system automatically receive call records for their roaming
    subscribers from anywhere in the combined network, greatly reducing
    their roaming fraud exposure.

    "The combination of RoamEx coverage in the Americas with Optel's
    EMEA coverage aligns well with our goal to provide customers with
    global NRTRDE coverage," said James Stewart, associate partner of
    client services, Telecom, for Fair Isaac, who also chairs the Roaming
    Subgroup of the GSMA Fraud Forum. "As more operators look to follow
    the GSMA's NRTRDE initiative, they will require a NRTRDE solution that
    provides them with maximum coverage. A roaming fraud solution is only
    as good as the coverage provided, because it can only detect roaming
    fraud in operator networks where it has been deployed."

    "We are proud to take another milestone in the fight against
    roaming fraud," added Markus Dicks, Managing Director of Optel
    Informatik. "With this connection of the two largest NRTRDE networks,
    we can offer our customers much higher fraud visibility and that is
    what counts. This advantage will be available for customers on both
    sides of the network, and linking them together boosts the CDR data
    exchange volume dramatically."

    Fair Isaac's RoamEx solution serves over 70 operators including 95
    percent of the Americas market, while Optel's MEGS-R solution serves
    major operators, including T-Mobile, in Europe. By linking these two
    systems, Optel and Fair Isaac can offer unsurpassed roaming call
    visibility to operators who subscribe to either system.

    About Optel Informatik

    Optel Informatik is a leading provider of fraud management and
    revenue assurance solutions. With its current key products MEGS (Fraud
    Management) and CashBack (Revenue Assurance) it is helping operators
    worldwide to detect any type of fraud, to analyze risky subscribers
    and validate an operators billing chain for any type of Revenue Loss.
    Optel Near-to-Real-time products as such protect more than 200 million
    subscribers, analysing more than 1 billion transactions per day.
    Optel's growing NRTRDE network has been live since 2002; it is the key
    component in the Optel portfolio of products to fight Roaming Fraud.
    Learn more about Optel Informatik on www.optel-informatik.de.

    About Fair Isaac

    Fair Isaac (NYSE:FIC) makes decisions smarter. The company's
    solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give
    businesses the power to automate more processes, and apply more
    intelligence to every customer interaction. Through increasing the
    precision, consistency and agility of their decisions, Fair Isaac
    clients worldwide increase sales, build customer value, cut fraud
    losses, manage credit risk, reduce operational costs, meet changing
    compliance demands and enter new markets more profitably. Founded in
    1956, Fair Isaac powers hundreds of billions of decisions per year in
    financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, consumer
    branded goods, healthcare and the public sector. Fair Isaac also helps
    millions of individuals manage their credit health through the
    www.myfico.com website. Visit Fair Isaac online at www.fairisaac.com.

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    statements regarding its RoamEx roamer data exchanger system, and the
    benefits to be derived from this offering, are forward-looking
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    perceive material benefits from the offering, failure of the product
    to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects
    in the offering, regulatory changes applicable to the use of consumer
    credit and other data, and other risks described from time to time in
    Fair Isaac's SEC reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for
    the year ended September 30, 2006, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q
    for the period ended December 31, 2006. Forward-looking statements
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