Convergys to Provide Sprint with Consolidated Rating Capabilities and Support for Wireless Wholesale.CINCINNATI -- 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) ), a global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, announced today an expanded software licensing agreement with Sprint (NYSE:FON Fon People of southern Benin and adjacent parts of Togo. They speak a dialect of Gbe, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo language family. Numbering about 3 million, the Fon are mainly farmers. ) expanding its retail wireless outsourcing contract to include Sprint's wireless wholesale customers, reflected in a six-year contract. Under terms of the wholesale outsourcing contract, Convergys will provide billing for Sprint's wireless wholesale customers. Convergys will further support Sprint's leadership role in the wireless wholesale market. In addition, leveraging Convergys' solution supports Sprint's objectives to consolidate billing systems and reduce costs. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, Convergys' Infinys(R) Rating and Billing software will serve as Sprint's common rating engine, enabling Sprint to support its existing wireless services. Convergys will provide a turnkey solution to Sprint including product software, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for custom enhancements, and operational support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . "Over the course of our long relationship, Convergys and Sprint have worked well together to develop solutions to improve Sprint's competitiveness and customer focus," said Bob Lento len·to Music adv. & adj. In a slow tempo. Used chiefly as a direction. n. pl. len·tos A lento passage or movement. , Convergys President, Wireline and Wireless Solutions. "With its continued migration to the Infinys rating module, Sprint and its customers will further benefit from a streamlined and efficient billing support system that enables convergent services and bundled product offerings for its customers. About Sprint Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With more than $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. . Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide 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. wireless network 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. . For more information, visit www.sprint.com. About Convergys Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and a Fortune Most Admired Company, is a 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, technology, financial services, and other industries in nearly 60 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 100 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 63,000 people in 64 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Convergys is on the net at www.convergys.com and has world headquarters in Cincinnati. (Infinys is a trademark and Convergys and the Convergys logo are registered trademarks of Convergys Corporation.) |
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