Convergys and Visage Mobile Announce Outsourced Infinys Billing Services Contract As Part of Exclusive Alliance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003 Companies align to support North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. MVNOs with convergent billing Convergys Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVG CVG Convergys Corp CVG Corporación Venezolana de Guayana CVG Clear Vertical Grain (woodworking) CVG Carrier Group CVG Corporacion Venezolana de Guyana CVG Comprehensive Video Group (South Hackensack, NJ, USA) ), the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, and Visage Mobile, the first U.S. enabler of private label wireless services, announced today a multi-year Infinys(TM) contract. The agreement is part of an alliance agreement to support North American mobile virtual network operator A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a company that provides mobile (sometimes called wireless or cellular) telephone service but does not have its own allocation of the radio frequency spectrum nor all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service. (MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) A reseller of wireless services. MVNOs do not own licensed spectrum and typically do not have any of their own wireless network infrastructure. ) clients with outsourced billing services. Convergys will be Visage Mobile's exclusive billing services provider, operating its Infinys rating and billing component, 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), from a Convergys data center. Visage Mobile will be Convergys' exclusive partner in outsourcing MVNO operations. California-based Visage Mobile is a mobile virtual network enabler A Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (or MVNE) is a company that provides services to MVNOs, such as billing, network element provisioning, administration, operations, support of base station subsystems and operations support systems, and provision of back end network elements, to . The company provides operations and billing support systems to MVNOs, service providers that utilize an established carrier's network to deliver differentiated wireless services under their own brand names. Through the alliance, Convergys will assist Visage Mobile in identifying and contracting with new MVNO clients who will use Visage's suite of services to deliver their own wireless products to consumers. Convergys' success in supporting the rating and billing needs of several high-profile MVNOs in Europe will greatly benefit Visage Mobile's North American MVNO clients. "Convergys is crucial to the Visage Mobile service offering, providing the best-in-class billing platform and widely recognized operational reliability," said Matt Johnson, 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 Visage Mobile. "Working with Convergys enables us to offer private label wireless providers advanced billing services and to quickly and cost-effectively launch their new wireless offerings." "The convergent billing capabilities of our Infinys rating and billing component combined with our industry-leading outsourced delivery model are an ideal fit for MVNOs, which require advanced billing capabilities but do not need the capital burden and infrastructure requirements of an in-house billing operation," said Larry Schwartz, President of Convergys' Information Management Group. "With the flexibility and reliability of Convergys' outsourced Infinys billing and rating capabilities, MVNOs can quickly launch their branded service bundles while confidently handling large volumes and complex transactions." Geneva is the rating and billing component of Convergys' Infinys, which delivers fully convergent customer management and billing capabilities for communication services companies. Infinys is built on Convergys' proven and industry-leading Next Generation Framework, a component-based architecture that provides unsurpassed flexibility, investment protection, and support. About Visage Mobile Visage Mobile, Inc. is the first company to enable wireless carriers and consumer brands to outsource the creation of mobile virtual network operations (MVNOs) 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. . MVNOs, new to the US wireless market, offer private-label wireless service through recognized national brands. Visage Mobile offers a new way of bringing brands and carriers together, using a platform specifically designed to allow a carrier to host multiple MVNOs with a single integration effort. Visage Mobile provides consulting and business services to develop, manage, and promote name-brand wireless enterprises economically. Visage Mobile was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . Further information is available at: www.visagemobile.com 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. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , 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(R) employs more than 48,000 people in 49 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States, 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. (Infinys and Geneva are trademarks and Convergys and the Convergys logo are registered trademarks of Convergys Corporation.) |
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