GTEL Mobile Deploys Comverse ONE to Offer Unified Billing and Customer Management Solution

Comverse today announced that GTEL Mobile, a new mobile operator in Vietnam, has deployed the Comverse^® ONE^™ Billing & Active Customer Management^™ solution, a converged billing system that will help differentiate the operator from other telecom providers by offering flexible billing models and a 360-degree view of the customer, regardless of touch point.

Established last July, GTEL Mobile is a joint venture between Vietnam’s GTEL Corporation and VimpelCom (NYSE: VIP), the leading provider of telecommunications services in Eastern Europe. Vietnam’s telecommunications industry recently has been growing at 20 to 25 percent annually, with more than 50 million mobile service users.

GTEL Mobile also has deployed an attractive portfolio of Comverse HUB Value-Added Services for an enhanced customer experience, including SMS Center for text messaging, MMS Center for multimedia messaging, Messaging Gateway, Mobile Internet Gateway, Next-Generation Voicemail, Call Completion and Ringback Tone services.

"Comverse offered a truly convergent prepaid and postpaid platform, together with a suite of pre-integrated, value-added services, that gives us the needed functionality to establish a foothold in the competitive Vietnamese market,” said Alexey Blyumin, CEO of GTEL Mobile.

"Comverse's strong presence in Vietnam and its track record of successful deployments of its billing solutions and value-added services with many other VimpelCom affiliates were key factors in our decision," he said.

Comverse ONE Billing & Active Customer Management is a truly converged Business Support System (BSS) solution that will enable GTEL Mobile to support any type of payment, such as prepaid, postpaid or hybrid, as well as create and deliver any service over its network efficiently. Comverse ONE provides better time to market with operational cost efficiencies due to its unified, highly efficient open architecture, based on a single software code built around a single data model and one product catalog.

Comverse’s flagship billing solution also provides fully integrated 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 single-view of the customer, regardless of whether the interaction is via phone, email, or live Web chat.

"The Comverse ONE billing solution, when coupled with the broad Comverse HUB Value-Added Services portfolio has helped GTEL Mobile get their network up and running in the shortest possible time frame,” said Urban Gillstrom, Group President of Global Sales 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 and the Comverse HUB truly are complementary,” Gillstrom said, "allowing operators to capture market share and provide a great user experience for all their customers.”

About GTEL Mobile

GTEL Mobile is a joint venture established in July 8, 2008 under the cooperation agreement between Vietnam’s GTEL Corporation & VimpelCom, the leading integrated telecommunications operator in Eastern Europe. The GTEL Mobile Joint Stock Company aims to provide voice & data services on 1.800MHz bandwidth, using GSM/EDGE 2,75G to cover all Vietnam with over 86 million people.

GTel Mobile has also cooperated with different branded telecommunications companies all over the world such as: Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Comverse, Avaya and IBM to deploy its GSM network

GTEL Mobile will use "Beeline VN” as the brand-name to launch in the Vietnamese telecommunications market.

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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