Comverse deploys ISMSC to enhance short text messaging for MoBiTai Taiwan

Issued by Comverse
Johannesburg, 18 Aug 2003

Comverse, the supplier of software applications to the cellular market, has announced that Taiwanese mobile operator MoBiTai has selected Comverse`s Intelligent Short Message Service Centre (ISMSC) to supplement its existing SMS system and handle increased traffic.

MoBiTai recently selected Comverse to supply its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) and Mobile Data Gateway (MDG) to replace its existing gateway and provide MMS services. The Comverse ISMSC system includes support for prepaid SMS.

Texting is becoming a highly popular form of sending greetings and festive cheers in Taiwan. Taiwan currently is the number one mobile market in the world in terms of highest mobile penetration.

"In order to address the still rapidly growing usage of text messaging services, we decided for a capacity expansion with the Comverse ISMSC. It gives us the flexibility and efficiency of dealing with even enormous peaks in demand," says Dr Michael Mertsch, executive vice-president of MoBiTai.

The Comverse ISMSC delivers short messages in more than 190 mobile networks worldwide. It offers high-traffic support, cost-saving connectivity options, and the ability to optimise system resources and delivery mechanisms to match the different kinds of SMS traffic in the network, such as person-to-person messaging, notification, push, Comverse Who Called, and other applications.

ISMSC integrates into all major mobile networks, including GSM, GPRS, CDMA and TDMA. Moreover, its support for prepaid SMS allows mobile carriers to provide the same level of SMS service to both prepaid and contract subscribers.

Comverse ISMSC

Comverse`s highly scalable, robust, telco-grade ISMSC has been chosen by more than 190 mobile operators around the world. The system is implemented on market leading standard-based hardware platforms. The ISMSC provides operators with a secure, evolutionary path to next generation networks, through hybrid TDM/IP/ATM solutions, utilising Comverse`s in-house signalling expertise.

The ISMSC is designed to enable operators to recognise revenue potential from SMS applications, through the ISMSC application gateway`s open standard interfaces to popular SMS protocols, making it easy to connect the system to existing and new applications developed in-house or by third-parties. The integration capabilities of Comverse Call Completion notification and ISMSC solutions are designed to enable operators to boost data and text-messaging average revenue per user).

Comverse`s ISMSC is designed to meet the challenge of expanding usage levels for SMS and other messaging applications. This solution enables operators to improve revenues while saving CAPEX and OPEX, increase service usage by existing subscribers and drive service adoption by new users.

MoBiTai Communications

MoBiTai Communications is an established GSM operator in Taiwan. It is a joint venture between Teco, Tecom, Japan Telecom, Lai Lai Holmescreen and Sumitomo. Through its latest projects, MoBiTai has evolved its operational platform to support GPRS (2.5G) services and potentially UMTS (3G) services in the future.

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 communications services. More than 400 wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators, in more than 100 countries, have selected Comverse`s enhanced services systems and software, which enable the provision of revenue-generating value-added services including call answering with one-touch call return, short messaging services, IP-based unified messaging (voice, fax, and e-mail in a single mailbox), 2.5G/3G multimedia messaging (MMS), instant communications, wireless information and entertainment services, voice-controlled dialling, messaging and browsing, prepaid wireless services, and additional personal communication services.

Other Comverse Technology business units include: Verint Systems, a leading provider of analytic solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance, and enterprise business intelligence; and Ulticom, a leading provider of service enabling network software for wireless, wireline, and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit http://www.comverse.com.

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