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Comverse Announces Converged Solutions For Call Completion And Call Management; New Service Provides Ability To Manage Inbound Calls To The Wireline Phone From Mobile Phone or PC

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 09:00 CST

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services, today announced availability of Smart Call Convergence and Who Called Convergence. The newest members of the Comverse ImPact(TM) application suite are designed to enable operators to increase call completion rates and average revenue per user (ARPU) by providing subscribers with the ability to manage, in real-time, inbound calls to wireline phones from mobile phones or PCs.

Enabling on-demand call intercept, Smart Call Convergence provides a variety of real-time call-handling options for calls to wireline phones remotely from a mobile handset or PC. After viewing the caller's name or number on their mobile handset or PC, users can choose to take the call, or: forward it to another number; redirect it to voicemail for message screening; send a canned SMS response; let the call ring through to the wireline phone.

Who Called Convergence delivers remote notification of missed calls to wireline phones and voicemail hang-ups to a mobile handset or PC. The new offering builds upon the proven success of Who Called(TM), which has been successfully deployed at over 60 operators worldwide. Notification of missed calls encourages subscribers to return the missed call, generating incremental operator revenues.

Smart Call Convergence and Who Called Convergence are network, infrastructure and device independent. As a result, these converged solutions can be implemented immediately by network operators, potentially leading to rapid return on investment. These solutions were done in collaboration with SoloMio.

"With Who Called Convergence, users can be assured that they should not miss a call to their wireline phones. With Smart Call Convergence, users can easily manage these calls anywhere they are located. As a result, wireline services become more integrated into today's mobile world," said Benny Einhorn, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. "Smart Call Convergence and Who Called Convergence strengthen the Comverse Total Communication(TM) environment that enables users to communicate in the most appropriate and convenient way - anytime, anywhere."

About Comverse ImPact(TM) Solutions

ImPact call completion and management services are designed to help service providers increase average revenue per user (ARPU). ImPact(TM) products leverage current network equipment and subscriber usage habits to enable service providers to introduce new services with a very short time-to-market. ImPact services are designed to improve call completion rates, and increase penetration and usage of the current voicemail service, by introducing traffic-generating call management services, through applications such as Who Called, Notify Me, Connect Me, Message Screening, and Smart Call. ImPact applications are easy to deploy, intuitive to use, and designed to deliver a quick and attractive return on investment (ROI).

About SoloMio

SoloMio Corporation is a leader in next-generation smart call services and technology. SoloMio's call management and call completion services software suite delivers more ways to make and take calls. Proven to increase voice and data usage while enhancing the subscriber experience, SoloMio's Smart Call Services enables telecommunications operators to deliver a range of compelling, configurable, operator-branded services that appeal to the most valuable consumer and business segments. Privately held, SoloMio's corporate headquarters are in Austin, Texas, with offices in London, Paris, Madrid and Munich. For more information, please visit www.solomio.com.

About Comverse

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services. These value-added enhanced services solutions, along with the company's real-time billing solutions, comprise the company's Total Communication(TM) portfolio. Comverse's Total Communication portfolio addresses four primary categories: call completion and call management solutions; advanced messaging for groups, communities and person-to-person communication; solutions and enablers for the management and delivery of data and content-based services; and real-time billing and account management solutions for dynamic service environments. Other Comverse Technology business units include: Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for communications interception, networked video security and business intelligence; and Ulticom (NASDAQ: ULCM), a leading provider of service enabling signaling software for wireline, wireless and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit the Comverse Web site at www.comverse.com or Comverse Technology's Web site at www.cmvt.com.

All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s).

Note: This release may contain "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurances that forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: changes in the demand for the Company's products; changes in capital spending among the Company's current and prospective customers; the risks associated with the sale of large, complex, high capacity systems and with new product introductions as well as the uncertainty of customer acceptance of these new or enhanced products from either the Company or its competition; risks associated with rapidly changing technology and the ability of the Company to introduce new products on a timely and cost-effective basis; aggressive competition may force the Company to reduce prices; a failure to compensate any decrease in the sale of the Company's traditional products with a corresponding increase in sales of new products; risks associated with changes in the competitive or regulatory environment in which the Company operates; risks associated with prosecuting or defending allegations or claims of infringement of intellectual property rights; risks associated with significant foreign operations and international sales and investment activities, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates, and valuations of public and private equity; the volatility of macroeconomic and industry conditions and the international marketplace; risks associated with the Company's ability to retain existing personnel and recruit and retain qualified personnel; and other risks described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in the filings of the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These documents are available through the Company, or its website, www.cmvt.com, or through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. The Company makes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statement in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such statement is made.

Source: Business Wire

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