Comverse - Comverse Names Ten Finalists for its Third Annual Innovation Awards

Winners Will Be Announced at the 2008 Comverse User Forum Next Week

New Delhi 30th May -- Comverse, the world's arch supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia added advice and announcement services, today appear the top ten finalists for its Third Annual Innovation Awards. Five winners will be appear at the Comverse 2008 User Forum that will be captivated June 2-5 in Porto, Portugal.
The awards account account providers who accept creatively implemented a Comverse band-aid to accomplish cogent business results. Examples of avant-garde implementations cover artistic analysis and marketing, different abstruse deployments, outstanding launches and business models, cogent increases in subscribers and revenues, and cogent amount reductions. The awards affairs is organized in affiliation with bazaar analysis close Yankee Group, in accession to added arresting abstracts in the telecom industry.

The ten finalists and their avant-garde use of Comverse solutions are:
•T-Mobile International, Germany, for a new accepted voicemail by deploying Comverse Visual Voicemail on both new and bequest handsets via anchored accessory audience
•Airtel India for acknowledging its rapidly growing SMS casework during aiguille times over geographically broadcast advantage territories by application the Comverse SMS Router
•Vodafone Italy for its accomplishing of a individual belvedere to abutment assorted MVNOs application InSight™
•Max Telecom, Bulgaria, for its barrage of carrier-class SIP-based articulation casework over WiMAX application MyCall® Converged Communications, IPCentrex and IP Trunking
•MegaFon and INcore, Russia, for the MegaFon ringback accent advance implemented by INcore application Fun Dial™
•StarHub, Singapore, for its acknowledged iCare self-service application Comverse Consumer Self-Service Suite
•Telstra, Australia, for its IT transformation with all-embracing clearing of bequest announcement systems to one converged belvedere application Comverse Billing Solution
•Mobile TeleSystems, Russia, for its accelerated accomplishing of Comverse Real-Time Billing Solution that included the clearing of about 34 actor subscribers in just 8 nights (over the advance of a month) from four altered bequest systems
•Orange UK for its access to self-service as a unified band-aid (based on a individual platform) application the Comverse Consumer Self-Service Suite
•Kyivstar, Ukraine for its characteristic assorted casework ambiance and accumulation application the Comverse Mobile Internet Gateway

“The finalists were called in affiliation with absolute analysis close The Yankee Group from a ample basin of acutely able applicants apery a assorted array of customers, spanning all regions, tiers and curve of business,” commented John Bunyan, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. “Their acknowledged and avant-garde deployments reflect the versatility of Comverse's ample ambit of solutions, and accentuate the inherent adaptability of our solutions to add cogent amount in abutment of the business needs of anniversary operator. The Innovation Awards accept become a highlight of our anniversary User Forum.”

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About Comverse
Comverse is the world’s arch provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and agreeable value-added services, prepaid, postpaid and converged announcement and IP communications. Comverse solutions accomplish revenues, strengthen chump adherence and advance operational ability for over 500 advice account providers in added than 130 countries. The company's Total CommunicationSM portfolio facilitates alone lifestyles in an evolving affiliated apple and is based on the InSight™ Open Services Environment. Comverse’s solutions abutment adjustable deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, VoIP, IMS and converged arrangement environments. Comverse is a accessory of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For added information, appointment www.comverse.com.