Comverse Research Indicates That Many UK Digital TV Subscribers Are Ready To Pay For TV-Based Messaging Applications.Business & Technology Editors WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2002 Among The Study's Conclusions: 30% Of UK Digital TV Subscribers Would Pay 2.5 Pounds Or More Per Month For Messaging Applications, Such As Voicemail, 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. , Email And Unified Messaging Over Interactive TV Comverse, a unit of 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 ), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services, announced the results of research carried out to assess the UK market demand for messaging services over TV. The research revealed a strong interest among digital TV subscribers to send and receive messages such as voicemail, short messages (SMS), email and instant messaging on their TV sets. Conducted by Continental Research, a UK-based research company specializing in research for major digital TV and satellite operators, the findings indicate a large potential for TVUM (unified messaging over TV). Four Hundred households were included in the study, among whom 17% are currently using email over TV, and more than 30% questioned would want voicemail over TV, and would pay on average 11p per message for such a service. In addition, 24% see real value in accessing text messages (SMS) over TV, and would be willing to pay on average 12p per SMS message. In addition, 35% of the participants expressed interest in using "TV Yellow Pages and more than 30% were interested in a package that includes email, voicemail, SMS Yellow Pages and address book access over TV, and would pay 2.5 pounds or more per month for such a unified messaging service as a TV package." "Unified messaging over TV (TVUM) has the potential to transform standard TV sets into home communication centers," commented Benny Einhorn, Chief Marketing Officer of Comverse. "We believe the cable TV and satellite provider markets are about to embark on an evolutionary change in the coming years and the impact of these services could have a dramatic influence on their revenues, as was experienced when these services were introduced to the cellular markets." The UK digital TV market has over 7 million subscribers, receiving service from three operators: BskyB, NTL NTL Nevertheless NTL National Transportation Library NTL Norsk Tjenestemannslag NTL National Training Laboratories NTL Never Too Late NTL Nothing to Lose NTL National Training Laboratory NTL None the Less NTL Number Theory Library , and Telewest. This research is part of Comverse's Medalist(R) Spark Program (a service providing a comprehensive range of marketing consulting services designed to assist Comverse customers throughout the world in introducing new services and producing appropriate market-segmented application packages). Within the Medalist Spark Program, both qualitative and quantitative research studies have been conducted to gauge end-users' behavior toward next generation products and services. Recent Medalist research has covered topics such as unified messaging and multimedia messaging services (messaging) Multimedia Messaging Services - (MMS) A feature of some mobile telephones that allows them to send messages including text, sound, images and video. . The study results are being used by Comverse as part of its ongoing focus on the end-user and the true demands of the market. About Continental Research Continental Research (registered name CSW CSW Commission on the Status of Women CSW Christian Solidarity Worldwide CSW Clinical Social Worker CSW College of the Southwest (New Mexico) CSW Cambridge SoundWorks (audio manufacturer) Research Ltd.) is a full service market research company. The full range of research services are offered - quantitative and qualitative, ad-hoc and continuous, consumer and business, and domestic and international. The Company is IQCS IQCS Interviewer Quality Control Scheme (UK) IQCS Internal Quality Control System (organic farming) (Interviewer Quality Control Scheme) approved. At its offices, the company operates its own 100-line telephone unit equipped with CATI CATI Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing CATI California Agricultural Technology Institute CATI Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation CATI Carolina Association of Translators & Interpreters (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) is a telephone surveying technique in which the interviewer follows a script provided by a software application. The software is able to customize the flow of the questionnaire based on the answers provided, as well as ) facilities. Clients include: BT, BT-Cellnet, Comcast, Telewest, WorldCom, NTL, Cybermedia, Electronic Arts, Energis, Ericsson, European Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. , Inmarsat, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, OFTEL Oftel n (BRIT) (= Office of Telecommunications) → organismo que controla las telecomunicaciones británicas Oftel n abbr (Brit) (= Office of Telecommunications) → , Orange, Yahoo!, Ziff Davis and Cable & Wireless. About Comverse Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT) is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services. More than 380 wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators, in more than 100 countries, have selected Comverse's enhanced services systems and software, which enable the provision of revenue-generating value-added services including call answering with one-touch call return, short messaging services, IP-based unified messaging (voice, fax, and email in a single mailbox), 2.5G/3G multimedia messaging (MMS), wireless instant messaging, wireless data and Internet-based services, voice-controlled dialing, messaging and browsing, prepaid wireless services, and additional personal communication services (communications) Personal Communication Services - (PCS) Telecommunications services that bundle voice communications, numeric and text messaging, voice-mail and various other features into one device, service contract and bill. PCS are carried over cellular links, most often digital. . Other Comverse Technology business units include: Comverse Infosys, a worldwide leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of intelligent digital voice, video and data recording and content management applications for the security, surveillance, law enforcement and contact centers markets; and Ulticom, a leading provider of service enabling network software for wireless, wireline, and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit the Comverse web site at http://www.comverse.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s). |
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