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Comverse Nabs Industry Award Fourth Year in a Row

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May 29, 2008

Comverse Nabs Industry Award Fourth Year in a Row

By Greg Galitzine, Group Editorial Director


Comverse announced that it has been honored with a Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) award for the fourth year in a row. Comverse was awarded the 2008 Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year award by the industry analyst firm. According to a release announcing the win, this particular award recognizes the most outstanding telecom solutions vendor in the BSS (business support systems) segment in Asia Pacific.

 
The award was presented during the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards banquet in Singapore.
 
According to Frost & Sullivan, the awards “seek to recognize companies and individuals that have pushed the boundaries of excellence — rising above the competition and demonstrating exemplary growth and performance in the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industry across the Asia Pacific region.”
 
Nominees were evaluated based on a various performance criteria for the past year, including revenue and revenue growth, portfolio diversity, and major customer wins.
 
Frost & Sullivan described the nomination process. “Nominations are made by a team of Frost & Sullivan experts based on the companies’ actual market performance indicators. Measurement criteria include revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, subscribers and growth in subscriber base, ARPU (average revenue per user) and growth in ARPU, data strategy and next generation service strategy.”
 
This year, 29 winners were lauded in four categories – enterprise vendors, telecom vendors, service providers and the best of the best.
 
“Comverse's (News - Alert) success in Asia-Pac is evident from the deployment of its solutions with the top service providers in the region, including high growth emerging markets like India and China,” commented Kamlesh Kalwar, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Today’s telecom operators need to be highly flexible and agile in order to deliver differentiated services to meet consumers’ ever-changing lifestyle and enhance the customer experience. This includes having a scalable back-end and billing system that enables operators to roll-out compelling new services quickly and efficiently, while offering a single integrated billing solution and view of the customer. Comverse’s converged billing suite has been able to help its customers meet this very need, empowering service providers to be versatile in today’s converging communications industry,” added Kalwar.
 
“Receiving this award for the fourth consecutive year reflects Comverse's unwavering commitment to addressing the dynamic business requirements of operators in today's competitive telecom environment, as demonstrated through the exceptional efforts of our regional team and partners,” said Eitan Achlow, President of Comverse Asia Pacific. “Our Total Communication portfolio of value-added services, converged billing and IP communications solutions, together with our unsurpassed level of service, have enabled Comverse to become the vendor of choice in the region and the world over.”
 
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Greg Galitzine (News - Alert) is editorial director of TMCnet. To read more of Greg’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
 
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