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Convergys Implements Its Geneva Software at Advanced Info Service to Support Business and Residential Customers.


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CINCINNATI & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002

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Southeast Asia's Largest Mobile Operator Selected Convergys Rating and

Billing Software for Its Ability to Handle Complex Transactions and

Pricing Models

Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, announced today that its Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
(TM) rating and billing software is now in live operation at Advanced Info Service Advanced Info Service PCL is Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator with 17.318 million customers as of June 2006. Founded in March 1990 and acquiring Shinawatra Paging  (AIS) Plc. AIS is the largest mobile operator in Thailand and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east.  with more than 9 million subscribers. Geneva provides usage processing, rating, and discounting for AIS' post-paid business and residential subscribers.

Geneva is being integrated with third-party customer relationship management, mediation, and provisioning applications to replace AIS' legacy billing system as part of a phased implementation. The final stage is scheduled for mid-2003 under the terms of a Geneva license contract announced in January for the company's GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992.  (Global System for Mobile Communications (communications) Global System for Mobile Communications - (GSM, originally "Groupe de travail Sp?ciale pour les services Mobiles") One of the major standards for digital cellular communications, in use in over 60 countries and serving over one billion subscribers. )/GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network.

AIS selected the award-winning Geneva software for its ease and speed of implementation, scalability, and its ability to handle large numbers of diverse transactions and complex pricing models. The software, which features convergent pre-paid capabilities, also will support international roaming (TAP3) and content settlement.

"The on-time progress of the implementation and the essentially error-free performance of the Geneva software affirms our decision to work with Convergys," said Arpattra Sringkarrinkul, AIS' Vice President of Information System Support. "We're confident that Geneva will enable us to accelerate revenue growth and expand our subscriber base through cross-discounting and bundling of our next-generation wireless voice and data service bundles."

"Innovative operators like AIS are accelerating the availability of advanced communication services for Thailand's business and consumer markets," said Steve Robertson Steve Robertson (born July 4, 1964) is a race car driver from Hackney, England.

After spending three years in British Formula Three (which included a 3rd place championship finish in 1990), he won the 1994 Indy Lights championship and captured 7 wins during his 2 years in
, President of Convergys International. "We appreciate the confidence AIS places in its partner-style relationship with Convergys to provide the world-class billing and customer care solution AIS will use to differentiate its offerings and build loyal customer relationships."

Geneva is a real-time, transaction-based, best-of-breed rating and billing module offering the performance required by major carriers handling large volumes of data. Geneva can bill for any service or combination of services.

Convergys' product line of highly scalable end-to-end billing products, pre-integrated application suites, and application modules enables communication providers to create fully integrated billing and customer care environments that are adaptable, reliable, and cost-effective. Convergys products are based on its proven and innovative Next Generation Framework, a component-based architecture that provides unsurpassed flexibility, investment protection, and support for convergent communication services.

About Advanced Info Service (AIS)

Advanced Info Service Plc. or AIS is the leading mobile telephone operator in Thailand with more than 9 million subscribers today. AIS provides services under the product names of Cellular 900, GSM Advance, and Prepaid pre·pay  
tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays
To pay or pay for beforehand.



pre·payment n.
 One-2-Call. The four key strategies behind AIS' success include Network Excellence, Technology Excellence, Service Excellence, and People Excellence, all of which play a crucial role in providing service. AIS believes that "Only truly excellent quality service creates the highest satisfaction to our service users."

About Convergys

Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and the Forbes' Platinum 400, is the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services provided through outsourcing or licensing. We serve top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable and broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. , technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, and other industries in more than 40 countries. We also provide integrated, outsourced, human resource services to leading companies across a broad range of industries.

We bring together world-class resources, software, and expertise to help create valuable relationships between our clients and their customers and their employees. This commitment is validated by the more than 1.5 million individual bills our software produces each day to support more than 120 million subscribers, and by the more than 1.7 million separate customer and employee contacts we manage each day, both live and via electronic interaction.

Convergys(TM) employs more than 44,000 people in 46 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Convergys is on the net at www.convergys.com, and has world headquarters in Cincinnati.

(Convergys, Geneva, and the Convergys logo are trademarks of Convergys Corporation.)
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