Comverse Names 10 Finalists for Fourth Annual Innovation Awards.Winners to be Announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. at 2009 Comverse EXPO WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Comverse today announced 10 finalists for its Fourth Annual Innovation Awards. The winners will be announced next week during Comverse EXPO 2009, the telecom industry's leading virtual event. The awards, organized in association with market research firm Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. , honor service providers that have creatively implemented a Comverse solution to achieve significant business success. Examples include new monetization schemes, exceptional speed and scope of deployments, outstanding launch and business models, unique market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" approaches, and significant cost reductions. The 10 finalists are: * Bezeq (Israel): Migrating to IP-based residential and business voice services using Comverse MyCall([R]) Broadband IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. , IP Centrex A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP and other IP-based services as well as connectivity to the regular telephone system (PSTN). and IP Trunking; * m:tel (Montenegro): Deploying Comverse Converged Billing in an ultra-fast fashion, which allowed the service's launch to capture roaming traffic during the summer tourist season Tourist Season is a novel written in 1986 by Carl Hiaasen. It is set in and around Miami, Florida. Bookjacket tagline The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. ; * SFR SFR Swiss Franc (national currency) SFR Société Française du Radiotéléphone (French cellular provider) SFR Single Family Residence SFR Single Family Residence (real estate) (France): Solving the problem of limited message storage space in handsets by saving text messages on the web using Comverse Messaging Router with Messaging Personalization and MT Interception capabilities; * SingTel (Singapore): Offering ground breaking advertising services to top-tier advertisers, media agencies and small- to mid-sized enterprises using Comverse Mobile Advertising; * Softbank Mobile Corporation (Japan): Innovative mobile enterprise telephony solution that integrates mobile phones with PBX-based enterprise telephony using Comverse Converged IP Centrex & IP Trunking; * Telecom Italia: Consolidating postpaid billing operations for 22 million accounts using the Comverse Billing Solution; * Telefonica Moviles (Movistar Chile): Implementing a new Comverse Real-Time Billing feature that provides SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. notification to callers trying to reach prepaid subscribers whose service has been temporarily disrupted; * Telstra (Australia): Deploying an online integrated inbox to support unified messaging from multiple devices and platforms using Comverse Messaging Gateway; * Vodafone Group (Global): Driving a leading industry group for mobile communications (Open Mobile Terminal Platform The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) is a forum funded by companies from across the mobile phone value chain, set up with the aim of simplifying the customer experience of mobile data services. ) to recommend industry specifications for visual voicemail, which will support its mass market penetration; and * Vodafone India: Creative prepaid marketing offerings, including Special Tariff Vouchers, using Comverse Real-Time Billing. "We selected the finalists from a large, diverse group of customers, spanning all regions, tiers and lines of business," said Urban Gillstrom, Global President of Group Sales Group sales Block sale (of large amounts) of securities to institutional investors. group sales The distribution of a new security issue to institutional clients. at Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling value-added messaging and content services, converged billing and active customer management, and IP communications. "Their successful and innovative deployments of our Billing, Value-Added Services and IP Communications offerings reflect the great versatility and breadth of Comverse's solutions, which can be easily tailored to the business needs of each operator," Gillstrom said. "The Innovation Awards are an integral part of this year's highly anticipated Comverse EXPO event." To register for the Comverse EXPO, which occurs online from June 17 to 18, please visit http://www.comverse-expo.com/. About Comverse Comverse is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling value-added services for voice, messaging, mobile Internet and mobile advertising; converged billing and active customer management; and IP communications. Comverse's extensive customer base spans more than 130 countries and covers over 500 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers. The company's innovative productportfolio enables communication service providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by making their networks smarter. Comverse's solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, IP, 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. or 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. Important factors that could affect the statements contained herein include: changes in the demand for the company's products; changes in capital spending capital spending Spending for long-term assets such as factories, equipment, machinery, and buildings that permits the production of more goods and services in future years. 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; and risks associated with rapidly changing technology and the ability of the company to introduce new products on a timely and cost-effective basis. The company undertakes no commitment to update or revise forward-looking statements except as required by law. |
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