The story
Nexign was founded in 1992 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, under the name Peter-Service by the developers of the billing system for the first Russian cell phone carrier Delta Telecom. In 1994, the company also launched a billing system for landline telecom operator Peterstar. That effectively made Nexign the first company in Russia to create business support systems for telecom operators. The projects for Delta Telecom and Peterstar provided the basis for the company's first packaged information and billing solution, Peter-Service BIS, which was among the first billing systems certified by the Ministry of Communication of Russia.
Since 2000, Nexign (Peter-Service) has expanded its portfolio with Roaming support systems (RSS), interconnected billing systems (ITC), convergent billing systems (BISrt), and other products for telcos. The company expanded to other regions of Russia, opened new offices, and strengthened the professional capacity. In February 2018, Peter-Service adopted a new brand name Nexign. In December of the same year, it was acquired by ICS-Holding. Under the new name, the company adopted a strategy focused on expansion to the Middle East and Africa (MEA), Southeast Asia (SEA), Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) markets with new BSS solutions for digital transformation of CSPs, a network monetization suite, and an IoT platform.
According to documents released by WikiLeaks in September 2017, Peter-Service had allegedly developed data retention (DRS) and traffic analysis instruments for the SORM system. The company responded that it doesn't have access to user data of CSPs, had never shared any information with authorities, and has no government contracts.
From Wikipedia’s article on Nexign, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4