Innovation Reigns Among Comverse’s Telecommunication Customers at the Third Annual Comverse Innovati
Five Winners Announced at the 2008 Comverse User Forum in Porto, Portugal
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Comverse, the world’s leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced the five winners of its Third Annual Innovation Awards, organized in association with independent market research firm The Yankee Group. The five operators received their awards at the Palacio da Bolsa (the Stock Exchange Palace), in Porto, Portugal, during the Comverse 2008 User Forum. The awards honor service providers who have creatively implemented Comverse solutions to achieve significant business results.
The winners for an innovative application of a Comverse solution are:
* Telstra of Australia earned the Billing Innovation Award for its IT transformation with large-scale migration of legacy billing systems to one converged platform using the Comverse Billing Solution
* T-Mobile International won the Value-Added Services Innovation Award for setting the new visual voicemail standard by deploying Comverse Visual Voicemail in Germany and Austria on legacy and new handsets via embedded clients
* Mobile Telesystems (MTS) of Russia won the Billing Innovation Award for its rapid implementation of the Comverse Real-Time Billing Solution that included the migration of approximately 34 million subscribers in just 8 nights over the course of a month
* Vodafone Italy received the Value-Added Services Innovation Award for its implementation of a single platform to support multiple MVNOs using Comverse InSight™
* MegaFone and INcore of Russia earned the Content Innovation Award for the creative MegaFon ringback tone promotion implemented by INcore using Fun Dial™, Comverse’s ringback tone service
In addition, two operators were honored with Special Recognition awards:
* Max Telecom of Bulgaria for its deployment of carrier-class SIP-based voice services over WiMAX using Comverse’s Converged IP Communications Solutions
* Airtel of India for its innovative approach to supporting immense growth in SMS usage over a large coverage territory using the Comverse SMS Router
“These winners reflect a successful fit of a Comverse solution in response to a business challenge,” commented John Bunyan, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. “The top five most innovative were chosen from a wide range of ingenuity, and the extent of talent and creativity found among our customers and our customer-facing teams made the process very difficult. We invite all forward-thinking operators to become familiar with the capability and record of Comverse’s Total Communication portfolio in helping to overcome today’s business challenges and join our growing list of more than 500 satisfied customers worldwide.”
About Comverse
Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and content value-added services, prepaid, postpaid and converged billing and IP communications. Comverse solutions generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency for over 500 communication service providers in more than 130 countries. The company’s Total CommunicationSM portfolio facilitates personalized lifestyles in an evolving connected world and is based on the InSight™ Open Services Environment. Comverse’s solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, VoIP, IMS and converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For more information, visit http://www.comverse.com.
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