Geneva Software From Convergys Chosen by Xfera for its UMTS Services -- Convergys Continues Post-merger Momentum With Geneva Solution --.Business Editors CINCINNATI, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. & CAMBRIDGE, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2001 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 and customer care services, announced today that Xfera, the first and only operator in Spain dedicated exclusively to the launch and management of new UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. technology, has chosen the award winning 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. software to rate and bill its third generation (3G) mobile services. Xfera, which was awarded one of Spain's four UMTS licenses last year, plans to offer innovative 3G services to both residential and business customers. Xfera selected the Geneva solution from Convergys after an extensive evaluation of industry-leading billing solutions. Key criteria in selecting a system to support Xfera's planned and future service offerings included flexibility, scalability, and operability Operability is the ability to keep a system in a functioning and operating condition. In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business processes to work together to accomplish a common task such as finding and . Xfera was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a system with the capability to add new services rapidly and introduce new types of tariffs without the need to customize the core software. It also required software that could provide revenue management in the context of the complex service and content provider agreements the 3G market will create. Rapid implementation, cost of ownership, and an open architecture allowing seamless links to customer care software and other best-of-breed components were further fundamental factors that led Xfera to choose Convergys' Geneva product. "The Geneva product is widely recognized as a best of breed product by companies like Xfera that are at the forefront of service innovation," said Dave Dougherty, chief development officer of Convergys. "Continued new business wins like this demonstrate how well our acquisition of Geneva Technology supports our commitment to the European market and our strategy to focus on faster growth." Luis Ramirez
Luis Ramirez , Chief Operations Officer at Xfera, said his company planned to be at the forefront of the lifestyle revolution that will combine service and comfort with new technology. "We are confident that the Geneva product will allow Xfera to address the complexities of the UMTS marketplace and bring innovative new services to market quickly. Choosing billing software when UMTS technology is not commercially available has been a complex task. We found the Geneva product to be the most attractive and safe solution on the market, able to support traditional mobile services as well as the new 3G services. We are also sure that the Geneva software's flexible structure will also be able to handle the future requirements of our evolving 3G-business model. Due to its underlying concepts and design, we voted Geneva a flexible and future-proof billing solution." About Xfera Xfera, an independent Spanish operator of third generation UMTS mobile telecommunications, was founded in April 2000, after obtaining a license through public tender. Shareholders include Vivendi, Sonera, ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. , Acesa, Mercapital, JP Morgan, and Grupo March, among others. For further information, visit Xfera at www.xfera.com Convergys-Geneva Technology Merger Convergys Corporation and Geneva Technology Ltd. formally merged on April 6, 2001. The Geneva billing solution is used by more than 40 clients with 55 installations in 17 countries including British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , NTL NTL Nevertheless NTL National Transportation Library NTL Norsk Tjenestemannslag NTL National Training Laboratories NTL Never Too Late NTL Nothing to Lose NTL National Training Laboratory NTL None the Less NTL Number Theory Library , ONE, Telewest Communications, Tiscali S.p.A., Maxitel S.A., Czech Telecom, Telenor, and Wireless Maingate AB. Geneva Technology's customers included national wireline and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. carriers, ISPs, ASPs, content providers, and utilities. Convergys continues to work closely with its industry partners and integrators to sell and deliver the Geneva product. Information on Geneva is available at www.gtl.com About Convergys Corporation Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and the Forbes' Platinum 400, is the global leader in integrated billing and customer care services provided through outsourcing or licensing. Convergys serves top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable and broadband services, technology, financial services, and other industries in more than 30 countries. Convergys brings together world-class resources, software, and expertise to help create valuable relationships between our clients and their customers. This commitment is validated by the more than 1.3 million individual bills our software produces each day to support more than 100 million subscribers, and by the more than 1.2 million separate customer contacts we manage each day, both live and via electronic interaction. Convergys(TM) employs over 45,000 people in 50 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Israel, and Europe. On the net at www.convergys.com, Convergys has world headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. (Convergys is pronounced: kun VER Ver personification; portrayed as infantile and tender. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322] See : Spring jis. Convergys and the Convergys logo are the trademarks of Convergys Corporation.) |
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