CMVT Comverse Technology, Inc. (MM)

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 that the company will showcase innovative new services from its expanded Total Communication(TM) Portfolio at 3GSM World Congress 2006 at the Comverse booth (Hall 8, Stand B12/13). This year at 3GSM, Comverse is presenting its solutions within the framework of three main themes: 3G, Fixed-Mobile Convergence, and IMS. Visitors to the booth will see Comverse's vision and witness real-time demos of Comverse messaging, content and converged billing solutions. Comverse will also introduce and demonstrate new additions to its Total Communications Portfolio. Comverse's Total Communication Portfolio includes a rich range of call completion, messaging, content and billing solutions designed to increase ARPU, strengthen customer loyalty and reinforce brand identity. The Total Communication Portfolio is powered by the InSight(TM) Open Services Environment. Modular and standards-based, InSight core components are shared across services, reducing costs and speeding deployments. The new product introductions include: Integrated Messaging: An end-to-end solution enabling seamless messaging inter-working across various services, networks and devices providing a single intuitive user experience for composing and receiving all types of messages. Messages are optimized to the recipients' capabilities and preferences, increasing message completion. Integrated Messaging paves an evolutionary path towards tomorrow's IMS networks. 3G Mailbox: A new innovative network-based mailbox for all voice, video and fax messages. 3G Mailbox enables a rich multimedia user experience (video UI) for message management on all 3G handsets -- without any need for handset clients -- stimulating 3G usage for message retrieval. Multimedia Call Completion: A call completion solution for people without voicemail. When a called party is busy or unavailable, the caller's message reaches the recipient's handset within seconds. The recipient clicks to open and hear the voice attachment. Multimedia Call Completion enables messages to be enhanced with multimedia elements, such as operator-branded video clips or animated graphics. The service is supported by all MMS enabled handsets. SMS Personal: A package of innovative services providing new SMS functionality and new opportunities for personalization: SMS Virtual Private Network, SMS Auto-Reply, SMS Personal Signature, SMS Duplicate, SMS Sponsored, and more. On-Device Portal: Combines intuitive on-device (offline) and online capabilities to make content services fast and easy to discover, access, browse and purchase. Offered in partnership with SurfKitchen, the appealing On-Device Portal experience entices users to consume content services. Comverse will also have on display a wide range of solutions that support IMS, converged networks and hybrid environments -- providing a smooth bridge between existing and emerging networks including: -- Messaging Solutions: SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, PushMail, 3GMailbox, Visual Voicemail, Presence, Smart Call and more. -- Billing Solutions: Converged Billing Solutions, Real-Time Billing, Kenan(R) FX, Mobile Payments, Revenue Settlements, Total Care, Data Mediation and more. -- Content Solutions: LifeLog, Klonies mobile avatars, Messaging Application Center, Mobile Video Portal, Mobile Data Gateway, Content Aggregation and Management, Solution for i-mode(TM), On-Device Portal and more. 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 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, a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for communications interception, networked video security and business intelligence; and Ulticom, 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 website 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, among others: risks associated with integrating the business and employees of the GSS division of CSG Systems, International; 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 statements in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such statement is made.