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Convergys to Support New German Satellite Pay TV Service; Convergys to Provide Unique Set of Product Offerings with Consulting and Professional Services.


CINCINNATI & COLOGNE, Germany -- Convergys Corporation (NYSE NYSE

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), a global leader in customer care, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , and billing services, announced today a contract with Arena, a subsidiary of the German cable company Unity Media. Convergys will provide a unique set of product offerings, with consulting and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , to support Arena's new German satellite PAY-TV service.

Scheduled to launch in August, Arena holds the broadcast rights to the live matches of the first and second Bundesliga in Germany from Deutsche FuBball Liga (DFL DFL Deutsche Fussball Liga (German Soccer League)
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). Unity Media expects Arena to have 3 million PAY-TV soccer subscribers within 3 years.

Convergys will implement a complete satellite PAY-TV Billing and Customer Care solution that supports complex satellite PAY-TV billing, customer care, order provisioning, and Web-self care. The solution will allow a rapid implementation and a fast time to market for new broadcast offerings. Convergys, with its consultative services approach and off-the-shelf software solutions, will enable Arena to bring its new PAY-TV programming offerings to market in a matter of months as opposed to longer timeframes often seen in the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. .

In advance of the launch, Convergys has already defined and implemented an order provisioning solution with Web-based self-care capabilities to enable Arena to accept Web orders as well as call center orders for the new satellite pay TV service. The complete billing and customer care solution for Arena will go into full production in August; just months after the implementation began.

In addition, Convergys is expanding the existing Convergys billing and customer care solution for the cable business of Unity Media by adding a Web self-care solution and further functionality to support the launch of the soccer PAY-TV service over cable.

"Working with Unity and Arena enabled us to apply our operational expertise and proven software products to configure and implement a solution that meets their particular billing and customer care requirements and aggressive implementation timeline," said Convergys' Jean Herve Jenn, President, International. "With this solution, subscribers will experience a seamless transition from ordering to receiving, while enjoying the quality of service they have come to expect from Unity Media."

With more than 20 years of experience in billing and customer care, Convergys combines its broad portfolio of professional and consulting services, deep technical and operational expertise, and award-winning Infinys software to solve its clients' complex BSS See 802.11.

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 and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  business problems. Convergys is Outthinking and Outdoing(TM) on behalf of its clients every day.

ABOUT UNITY MEDIA

Unity Media is headquartered in Cologne and is the proprietor of the Hessian cable network operator iesy, the North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine–Westphalia (nôrth rīn-wĕstfāl`yə), Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen (nôrt`rīn-vĕst'fä`lən), state (1994 pop. 17,759,000), 13,111 sq mi (33,957 sq km), W central Germany.  cable network operator ish, and the network level 4 operator Tele Columbus German Tele Columbus Group is the third largest cable provider in Germany and with 3.7 million connected households the biggest cable operator on network level 4. The company was formed in November 2006 following the merger of Tele Columbus GmbH and ewt multimedia GmbH under the umbrella . Ish and iesy are the largest providers of cable television in their respective states. The companies also offer digital television, high speed Internet, and telephony. On 30 September 2005 iesy and ish had approximately 5.2 million basic cable customers, 101,100 digital TV customers, 30,300 high speed Internet customers, and 11,500 telephone lines. Tele Columbus is the largest NL4 operator in Germany with approximately 2.6 million basic cable subscribers, 59,000 Digital TV subscribers, and 23,600 Internet subscribers as at 30 September 2005. More information on Unity Media can be found at www.unitymedia.de.

ABOUT CONVERGYS

Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG) is a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services. Convergys combines specialized knowledge and expertise with solid execution to deliver outsourced solutions, consulting services, and software support. Clients in more than 70 countries speaking nearly 35 languages depend on Convergys to manage the increasing complexity and cost of caring for customers and employees. Convergys serves the world's leading companies in many industries including communications, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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Convergys is a member of the S&P 500 and a Fortune Most Admired Company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation).
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, Convergys has more than 65,000 employees in 74 customer contact centers, three data centers, and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. For more information visit www.convergys.com

(Outthinking and Outdoing is a trademark, and Convergys and the Convergys logo are registered trademarks of Convergys Corporation.)
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