Comverse to Bring the Total Communication(SM) Showcase to CTIA: Creating Value for Operators.WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that that it will be exhibiting at CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless, April 1-3 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada, USA. At the show, Comverse will highlight its Total Communication portfolio that creates value for operators including accelerated time to revenue with robust billing, additional revenue streams by enabling fixed-mobile convergence, alternative business models with comprehensive mobile advertising platforms, and increased service usage with visually-based messaging and real-time communication services. Comverse will be located at Booth #1644, Hall C4. "Comverse returns to CTIA this year with a diverse and far-reaching value proposition for operators of every size, and serving every market segment," said James Colby, Vice President of Comverse Americas. "Comverse will present the Total Communication portfolio, reflecting the company's perspective on a world where people communicate in a simple and reliable manner, enjoying a rich and personalized experience, while the underlying enabling technologies remain transparent to the user." Some highlights of the Comverse Total Communication showcase demonstrations include: * Visual Voicemail Visual Voicemail or Random Access Voicemail is the process of adding a visual aspect to mobile phone voicemail and allowing users to listen to their messages in the order of their choice. - As the global leader in visual voicemail deployments, Comverse brings to market the convenience of receiving voicemails via a visual interface. Now users can select the messages they want to hear, in the order they want, on whatever device is most convenient. With visual voicemail, users now have message access from virtually any device or terminal by means of handset clients, 3G, 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. , Web and Email. * Mobile Advertising Solutions - Comverse introduces a non-invasive approach to offering advertising on many different channels of access - all on an opt-in basis - embedded in messaging products, ringback tones, mobile avatars, and a variety of other injection mechanisms. Mobile Advertising is gaining market traction as it creates new revenue streams for operators. * Multi-Play Convergence - Fixed-mobile convergence opens up new revenue streams when operators can provide real-time communication (both voice and video) and messaging services across users' PCs, TVs, home phones and mobile devices with a unified customer interface and address book. Subscribers enjoy intuitive voice communications, text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. , MMS, and visual voicemail - all with a single number and a presence-enabled shared contact list. * Converged Billing - A comprehensive pre-integrated single platform with benefits to both operator and end-user, including multiple identities for personal and business accounts, and a family account hierarchy of prepaid and postpaid plans on one billing plan. Mark Pendergast, Comverse Director of Product Marketing, will also be speaking during the show on "Addressing Usability in the Wake of the iPhone" on Tuesday, April 1st at 1:00 pm in Room North 101. To schedule an appointment with a Comverse representative or to receive more information, please contact CTIA2008@comverse.com. 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 A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. . 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 An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality , 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 The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. environments. Comverse is 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. (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) VSOE Venice Simplon-Orient-Express VSOE Viveka School of Excellence 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. 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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 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; 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 n. 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