Corporate Profile for Corsair Communications, Inc., dated Oct. 9, 1998.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Oct. 9, 1998
Company Name: Corsair Communications, Inc.
Address: 3408 Hillview Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Main Telephone
Number: 650/842-3300
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): www.corsair.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Mary Ann Byrnes
Chief Financial
Officer: Martin Silver
Public Relations
Contact: Bill Taliaferro
Business number: 650/842-3263
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: CAIR
Industry: Telecommunications
-0- Company description: Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. Communications, headquartered in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., is a leading provider of intelligent software and system solutions for the wireless industry. The company provides product lines in three principal areas: fraud prevention and churn reduction, customer care and billing, and location services See mobile positioning. . In June 1998 it acquired Subscriber Computing and added its portfolio of billing and customer service products to Corsair's offerings. The company has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on exchange (trading symbol Trading symbol See: Ticker symbol : CAIR CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR Clean Air Interstate Rule (EPA) CAIR Center for AIDS Intervention Research CAIR Changing Attitudes in Recovery CAIR California Association for Institutional Research ) since July, 1997. The company's portfolio of fraud prevention and churn reduction products includes the PhonePrint(R) fraud prevention system, which is operating in over 160 markets worldwide. Corsair's FraudWatch(R) Pro is a revolutionary profiling system designed to detect all types of fraud, including subscription fraud on digital wireless systems. The company's PhoneCheck(TM) system measures and reports on the performance of phones in wireless networks, enabling carriers to reduce churn with proactive measures. Corsair's billing products are Customer Resource Manager(TM) (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and PrePay(TM). CRM is a full featured, integrated customer service and real-time billing system for wireless and paging carriers, available on a scalable desktop platform. PrePay is a wireless intelligent network approach to prepaid billing which allows carriers to provide cellular and 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. services to new consumer and business market segments. Corsair is currently developing a network-based system for wireless location services. The PhoneTrack(TM) system uses proprietary technologies to locate wireless phones and other devices for commercial applications and E-911 calls. |
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