Comverse Achieves 100-Customer Milestone for its InSight(TM) Open Services Environment.Milestone is Testimony that Operators Around the Globe Share in Comverse's Vision of Total Communication for a Converged World BARCELONA, Spain -- Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology Comverse Technology, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CMVT) is an American Technology company located in Woodbury, New York, which develops and markets telecommunications software. Founded in 1982, the company focuses on providing services to third party telecommunication service providers. , Inc. and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that 100 operators have chosen Comverse InSight[TM] Open Services Environment to deliver advanced services to a total of more than 250 million subscribers around the world. Comverse will be showcasing its Total Communication(SM) Portfolio at 3GSM World Congress 2007, February 12-15 at the Comverse booth (Hall 8, Stand 8B83). Comverse will be kicking off a celebration of this major milestone at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Additional activities planned as part of this celebration include the formation of an InSight Community that will enable participating InSight customers to benefit from sharing knowledge and best practices, access to Professional Workshops, Seminars and Market Research, and an opportunity to further shape InSight's services roadmap. Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment equips service providers to succeed in the converging communications arena by providing an open and modular environment for the launch and delivery of communication and value-added services from Comverse and third parties over IP, circuit-switched, 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 hybrid networks. InSight's IP-based architecture and standard interfaces enable core components, such as the Multimedia Message Store, Subscriber Profile Store, Media Server, Network Address Book, Presence Server, and more, to be shared by multiple services, significantly reducing operational costs and speeding time-to-market. "Total Communication is Comverse's vision of a world where people are free to interact and use services in the way that is most appropriate, effective and convenient for each communication context. Comverse designed InSight to enable the service provider to become the hub of users' Total Communication universe," stated Benny Einhorn, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. "Having the InSight Open Services Environment chosen by 100 communications providers around the globe, including many Tier-1 operators, is proof that the Comverse vision for Total Communication and how to get there has been widely accepted." Comverse provides a rich portfolio of attractive and ready-to-launch services that can run over the InSight Open Services Environment. Many of these services, including Converged Messaging, Converged IP Communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. , Content, and Converged Billing and Customer Care, will be demonstrated at 3GSM World Congress, February 12-15 in Barcelona, Spain at the Comverse stand (Hall 8, Stand 8B83). About Comverse Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : CMVT CMVT Converse Technology .PK), is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services. The company's Total Communication(SM) portfolio includes value-added messaging, personalized data and content-based services, and real-time converged billing solutions. Over 450 communication and content service providers in more than 120 countries use Comverse products to generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency. For additional information, visit the Comverse website at www.comverse.com or the Comverse Technology website at www.cmvt.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s). Note: This release contains "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. 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