Comverse Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s BSS/OSS Excellence Award for 2009

Comverse has received the 2009 BSS/OSS Excellence Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine for its flagship Comverse ONE Billing & Active Customer Management solution, based on proven success with operators around the globe.

"The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY are pleased to grant Comverse with a BSS/OSS Excellence Award for their achievements in creating exceptional systems for supporting internal network operations or customer support solutions,” said Erik Linask, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY. "Comverse ONE has proven its outstanding contribution to delivering winning solutions for its customers.”

Comverse ONE makes BSS (Business Support System) a strategic asset for telecom operators through competitive differentiation, growth enablement and cost reduction. Comverse ONE provides better time to market and operational cost efficiencies due to its unified, open architecture, built around a single data model and single product catalog.

"This award reflects the tangible benefits that our Comverse ONE Billing & Active Customer Management solution brings to operators, as already evident in a growing number of deployments around the world,” said Gabriel Matsliach, Group President of Products and Operations at Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling value-added messaging and content services, converged billing and active customer management, and IP communications.

Comverse ONE also provides full-customer management that allows operators to respond to the changing needs of customers; offer real-time marketing capabilities; provide numerous self-service options; and maintain a complete, real-time view of the customer, regardless of whether the interaction is via phone, email, or Web.

"For recognition of their contributions to the growth and innovation displayed in the market, we are very pleased to present Comverse with a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY BSS/OSS Excellence Award. Comverse ONE has made an incredible contribution to BSS and OSS and has delivered great solutions for its clients,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), which publishes INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The 2009 Excellence Award winners are published in the November 2009 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.

About Comverse

Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling value-added services for voice, messaging, mobile Internet and mobile advertising; converged billing and active customer management; and IP communications. Comverse’s extensive customer base spans more than 130 countries and covers over 500 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers. The company’s innovative product portfolio enables communication service providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by making their networks smarter. Comverse’s solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, IP, IMS or converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.

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