BellSouth Selects Comverse Technology for Marketing Trial of New Voice Fax Messaging Services; Installation is Comverse's First for BellSouth.WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1996--Comverse Technology Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CMVT CMVT Converse Technology ) announced today that BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) is using its TRILOGUE INfinity system in a market trial which, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Bell Operating Company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. , "will allow the offering of the next generation of messaging services to our customers." Telephone customers in three Atlanta-area communities are being offered a range of integrated voice and fax messaging and information services See Information Systems. in the market trial, which follows a successful technical trial of the same equipment and services that began in October 1995. Kobi Alexander, Chairman, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Comverse, stated, "This is Comverse's first TRILOGUE installation for BellSouth and marks a significant step in Comverse's growing presence in the U.S. market. We are very pleased that BellSouth selected TRILOGUE INfinity as the platform for this innovative program." Trial customers may choose from an integrated set of enhancements to the basic "MemoryCall" Call Answering and Voice Messaging services BellSouth has been providing successfully for six years. The enhancements include Message Delivery, Information Delivery, and Integrated Voice/Fax. Message Delivery allows subscribers to send voice messages, not only to another subscriber's mailbox, but also to any telephone number or list of numbers. Information Delivery gives subscribers access to a wide variety of information updates automatically delivered to their mailboxes. Integrated Voice/Fax allows subscribers to receive faxes in the same mailbox that stores their voice messages. According to Joe Meyer, BellSouth Product Manager for Information Services, "The Atlanta trial will be the first time anywhere that these services have been combined, integrated, and offered together." Sam Hendrickson, Director of Information Services at BellSouth, said, "The array of new services is made possible by a new serving platform, Comverse Technology's TRILOGUE INfinity. By providing the integration of voice mail, fax mail, message delivery and information delivery, this platform allows us to tailor solutions to meet our customers' needs very quickly. In addition, we feel that these enhanced services will meet the needs of our various customer groups -- now and in the future." Comverse Technology Inc., headquartered in Woodbury, N.Y., designs, develops, manufactures and markets computer and telecommunications systems for a variety of communications processing applications, including telephone-accessed, multimedia messaging and information processing systems marketed under the name TRILOGUE and multiple channel, multimedia digital recording systems marketed under the name AUDIODISK. CONTACT: Comverse Technology Inc. Kobi Alexander or Paul D. Baker, 516/677-7200 |
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