Comverse Technology's messaging equipment to be implemented for BellSouth Mobility DCS for its digital wireless PCS network.WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1996--Comverse Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: CMVT CMVT Converse Technology ) announced today that it has received an initial order for the company's TRILOGUE(R) INfinity system, which will allow BellSouth Mobility DCS BellSouth Mobility DCS, LLC headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, was a BellSouth subsidiary. BellSouth Mobility DCS operated 1900MHz GSM networks in a number of states in the South, clustered around South Carolina. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) to provide a variety of enhanced telecommunications services, such as call answering and short message service notification, on its new digital wireless Personal Communications Services See PCS. (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) network. Enhanced Communications Corp. (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ) of Wilmington, Del., will own, manage and operate the enhanced messaging services platform for BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. in a service bureau arrangement using the Comverse equipment. 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 Technology, said, "Digital wireless services such as PCS represent the next generation of mobile telecommunications offerings, and we are very pleased to play an important role in BellSouth Mobility DCS's launch of PCS. Comverse is a world leader in the provision of messaging platforms to network operators launching PCS and other digital wireless services. More than 60 wireless network operators worldwide, including more than 40 digital wireless service providers, have selected TRILOGUE for their enhanced services." "We're excited about the Comverse system and ECC's role in deploying and managing the system," said Durward Hendee, BellSouth Mobility DCS's senior manager of marketing. "We believe that enhanced services are a key piece in the PCS puzzle and look forward to a strong performance from both ECC and Comverse." Comverse Technology's TRILOGUE INfinity enhanced services platform, which is marketed to both wireless and wireline network operators, enables PCS and other digital wireless network operators to provide, among other services, voice/fax/text messaging, interactive voice response and Short Message Service Center (SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic ), which allows the display of brief text messages on the PCS handset. Enhanced Communications Corp. (ECC), headquartered in Wilmington, Del., and with offices in Atlanta, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., and Chilmark, Mass., is a service provider that provides rapid turn-key telecommunications solutions for telecommunications network operators. BellSouth Mobility DCS is a subsidiary of BellSouth Corp., the world's wireless leader, and is licensed to provide digital wireless PCS in the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee major trading ares with an aggregate population (POPs) of approximately 12 million people. The company is developing its digital communications network with partners DukeNet, a subsidiary of Duke Power; CaroNet, a subsidiary of Carolina Power & Light; and 30 independent telephone companies. Comverse Technology Inc., located in Woodbury, designs, develops, manufactures and markets computer and telecommunications systems and software for communications and information processing applications, including systems for multimedia messaging and other enhanced services marketed to wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators under the name TRILOGUE(R), multiple channel, multimedia digital monitoring systems marketed to law enforcement and intelligence agencies under the name AUDIODISK(TM) and multiple channel, multimedia digital recording systems marketed to call centers, telemarketers, financial institutions, correctional institutions, emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' providers and other organizations under the name ULTRA(TM). CONTACT: Comverse Technology Inc., Woodbury Kobi Alexander, Paul D. Baker, 516/677-7200 |
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