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Comverse Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 10th Annual Product of the Year Award
WAKEFIELD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Comverse announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC(R)) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named its MyCall(R) Converged Communications solutions for VoIP-based fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998(TM).
Comverse MyCall Converged Communications enables operators to deliver consumer telephony and messaging across users' PCs, home phones and mobile devices with a single, unified customer interface and address book. It also enables operators to offer attractive, cost-effective voice, video and messaging service bundles. Subscribers benefit from a single user interface on their PC or mobile or fixed phone to access all communication and messaging services, such as telephony, SMS, MMS, IM and Presence. The same number can be used to call all devices with a shared contact list, and all services can use the same service provider billing mechanism.
"We are pleased to receive this award from Internet Telephony, as further evidence of the market leadership of our MyCall Converged Communications solutions," commented Ramesh Barasia, President of Comverse Americas. "With MyCall, service providers can develop multiple service delivery strategies across various networks and truly integrate converged communication service bundles that are customized to consumer lifestyles. The flexibility of using messaging and telephony services seamlessly across multiple devices and screens creates stronger customer loyalty to service providers."
"Comverse has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to their MyCall Converged Communications solutions," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Comverse in the future."
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. (www.itmag.com)
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About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998(TM). Since 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 has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Comverse
Comverse is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and content value-added services, converged billing and IP communications. Comverse solutions generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency for over 500 communication service providers in more than 130 countries. The company's Total Communication(SM) portfolio facilitates personalized lifestyles in an evolving connected world and is based on the InSight(TM) Open Services Environment. Comverse's solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, VoIP, IMS and converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.
All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s).
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