Corsair Communications Unveils Upgrade to Leading Fraud Prevention System; PhonePrint 5.0 Offers User-Friendly GUI and Performance Upgrades.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1998--Corsair Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: 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 ) today announced the general availability of PhonePrint(R) 5.0, a software upgrade to one of the cellular industry's most effective fraud prevention systems. PhonePrint uses RF fingerprinting to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. legitimate customers and disconnect cloned celluar phones. The new release offers improvements to the graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) as well as to fraud performance, system infrastructure, and system operations. "PhonePrint offers customers better than a 95 percent reduction in cloning fraud upon maturity of the RF database, which generally takes a few months to achieve," said Mary Ann Byrnes, president and chief executive officer of Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. . "With this release we are increasing the efficiency of the product and providing an easier and more comprehensive interface with features that the carriers have told us they want. Our customers are pleased with this release, and the majority of our current PhonePrint customers are purchasing it." The new release's improvements to the user interface now allow more comprehensive real-time access to PhonePrint's database for custom operations and detailed analysis on selected fingerprints. The system's access control and reporting capabilities have been enhanced, and local language support for language translation products is now included. Release 5.0 continues to support PhoneCheck 1.0 and 2.0, Corsair's churn reduction software. The new release of PhonePrint is Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. as well. One important operational aspect of PhonePrint 5.0 is its multi-market support feature. With this feature, a carrier can run multiple markets from one system. Designed specifically for carriers that are consolidating their fraud operations into regions, the multiple-market feature allows carriers to access data on particular markets or across all markets together. PhonePrint is currently installed in more than 160 markets worldwide serving such carriers as AT&T Wireless Services, BellSouth Cellular Corp., GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Wireless, L.A. Cellular, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Corp., lusacell-Mexico, Piltel-Phillippines, Telcel-Mexico and Total Access Communications-Thailand, among others. Corsair is a leading provider of software and system solutions for the wireless industry. The company's products include systems for fraud prevention and churn reduction, customer care and billing, and wireless location. Note: This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially because of various risks, including risks associated with product sales and installation, economic and political instability in international markets, demand for Corsair's products and services, continued growth of the wireless telecommunications industry, and other risks associated with Corsair's business. For an expanded discussion on such risks, please see the documents filed by Corsair Communications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. PhonePrint is a registered trademark of Corsair Communications. PhoneTrack and PhoneCheck are trademarks of Corsair Communications. |
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