Boston Communications Group, Inc. ("bcgi"), founded in 1988 and headquartered in Woburn/Bedford, Massachusetts, was a provider of real-time transaction processing and billing services to wireless carriers. It was a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: BCGI) until Megasoft Ltd., an India-based software firm, agreed in July 2007 to acquire it via tender offer; the deal closed later that year, and the entity was subsequently renamed XIUS Holding Corp. Press accounts around the 2005–2006 litigation described bcgi as a roughly 400-employee company; PitchBook lists about 504 employees and a $64.5M acquisition value.
Products / services. bcgi sold prepaid and postpaid wireless billing, payment, access-management, and network solutions to carriers and MVNOs. Its core asset was the Intelligent Voice Services Network (IVSN), described in company materials as North America's largest real-time prepaid billing network, processing over a billion prepaid minutes annually. Product lines included Prepaid Connection (an outsourced prepaid platform for small and mid-sized carriers), Wireless Wallet (stored-value/m-commerce payments), and ATM Recharge, which enabled prepaid top-ups at ATMs via a partnership with ACI Worldwide. It also offered access management, billing, and payment solutions through its acquisition of PureSight (2005).
Patent-litigation posture. The structured data shows one tracked case, with bcgi as defendant and zero as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company defending, not a patent assertion entity. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Boston), not a plaintiff-friendly Texas venue.
Notable case. Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Boston Communications Group, Inc. et al. Freedom Wireless — described in press coverage as a small privately held intellectual property firm based in Phoenix — asserted prepaid wireless billing patents. A May 2005 jury verdict awarded $128 million against bcgi and co-defendants including Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless, CMT Partners, and Western Wireless; the court later added interest and entered an injunction. The parties settled in 2006 for $87 million collectively, of which bcgi's share was reported at $55 million, averting a threatened bankruptcy. bcgi's 2000 sale of its customer care division to TeleTech is separate corporate context.