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Claro Deploys Comverse InSight and MMSC to Enhance Messaging Capabilities and Expand Service Offering in Brazil.


WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that Claro, a leading mobile provider in Brazil and a wholly-owned subsidiary of America Movil (BMV BMV Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
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: AMOV AMOV Active Movie ; LATIBEX: XAMXL), the largest mobile company in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , has deployed Comverse InSight Open Services Environment and Multimedia Messaging Center (MMSC). The solutions handle fast-growing messaging traffic and support rapid deployment of new services from Comverse and third parties to meet evolving person-to-person, application-to-person and content requirements of Claro's more than 28 million subscribers.

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 and Roaming at Claro said, "Powerful, versatile and forward-looking solutions like Comverse InSight and MMSC position us to implement our strategy to expand our service offering to meet the preferences and needs of our rapidly expanding customer base. Our goal is to increase customer satisfaction and be well positioned to take advantage of current and future market opportunities."

Comverse InSight's open modular environment facilitates speedy and cost-effective launch and delivery of a wide assortment of new messaging and content services. The high-performance Comverse MMSC is designed to optimize user and operator experience for the ever-increasing variety and popularity of multimedia content in personal and application-related traffic.

"The market-leading Comverse InSight and MMSC have been deployed in Brazil and around the world due to their proven tier-1 robustness and efficient capability to handle and promote a broad range of feature-rich services and new revenue channels," said Ramesh Barasia, President of Comverse Americas. "Comverse solutions can help drive usage and provide consumer-oriented operators like Claro with a clear competitive advantage, enhancing and personalizing the user experience, and maximizing the revenue potential."

About Claro

Claro, considered one of the leading companies in Brazil, covers 21 Brazilian states and the Federal District. Its services are available in more than 2.300 cities and it has a rapidly growing subscriber base of more than 28 million customers. Claro is known for its innovative services, with GSM technology for infrastructure and digital coverage.

The company provides roaming for more than 130 countries and has the biggest cellular phones portfolio of the market, with models for all profiles, including phones with digital cameras, MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. , MP3, Internet, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. , EDGE, Bluetooth and Quad band. Claro is controlled by the America Movil group, the biggest in cellular telephony in Latin America, with 110 million subscribers of wireless and fixed lines in: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Equator, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

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 Communication(SM) portfolio facilitates personalized lifestyles in an evolving connected world and is based on the InSight[TM] 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 (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
 and converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT CMVT Converse Technology .PK). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.

All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s).

This release contains "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurances that any forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. Important factors that could affect the company include: the results of the investigation of the Special Committee, appointed by the Board of Directors on March 14, 2006, of matters relating to the company's stock option grant practices and other accounting matters, including errors in revenue recognition, errors in the recording of deferred tax accounts, expense misclassification, the possible misuse of accounting reserves and the understatement of backlog; the impact of any restatement of financial statements of the company or other actions that may be taken or required as a result of such investigation or as result of the company's VSOE VSOE Vendor-Specific Objective Evidence (accounting/contracting)
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 evaluation; the company's inability to file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission; the effects of the delisting of the company's Common Stock from NASDAQ and the quotation of the company's Common Stock in the "Pink Sheets," including any adverse effects relating to the trading of the stock due to, among other things, the absence of market makers; risks relating to the company's ability to relist its Common Stock on NASDAQ; risks relating to alleged defaults under the company's ZYPS ZYPS Zero Yield Puttable Securities (exchange offer)  indentures, including acceleration of repayment; risks of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

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 (including the pending securities class action and derivative lawsuits and any potential civil injunctive action by the Securities and Exchange Commission) and of governmental investigations or proceedings arising out of or related to the company's stock option practices or any other accounting irregularities or any restatement of the financial statements of the company, including the direct and indirect costs of such investigations and restatement; risks related to Verint Systems Inc's. merger with Witness Systems, Inc., including risks associated with integrating the businesses and employees of Witness; risks associated with integrating the businesses and employees of the Global Software Services division acquired from CSG CSG - constructive solid geometry  Systems International, Netcentrex S.A. and Netonomy, Inc.; changes in the demand for the company's products; changes in capital spending capital spending

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 among the company's current and prospective customers; the risks associated with the sale of large, complex, high capacity systems and with new product introductions as well as the uncertainty of customer acceptance of these new or enhanced products from either the company or its competition; risks associated with rapidly changing technology and the ability of the company to introduce new products on a timely and cost-effective basis; aggressive competition may force the company to reduce prices; a failure to compensate any decrease in the sale of the company's traditional products with a corresponding increase in sales of new products; risks associated with changes in the competitive or regulatory environment in which the company operates; risks associated with prosecuting or defending allegations or claims of infringement of intellectual property rights; risks associated with significant foreign operations and international sales and investment activities, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates, and valuations of public and private equity; the volatility of macroeconomic mac·ro·ec·o·nom·ics  
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 and industry conditions and the international marketplace; the risk of declines in information technology spending; risks associated with the company's ability to retain existing personnel and recruit and retain qualified personnel; and other risks described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no commitment to update or revise forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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