Comverse Messaging PC Client Bridges Mobile and Internet Environments for Kyivstar...

Comverse Messaging PC Client Bridges Mobile and Internet Environments for Kyivstar Users

Mobile Messaging (SMS and MMS) from the PC Strikes a Responsive
Chord with Ukrainian Users
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems
enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing
services, today announced that Kyivstar, the largest mobile operator
in Ukraine with more than 23 million subscribers, has launched the
Comverse Messaging PC Client service, incorporating technology from
TeleMessage, a provider of cross-platform media messaging management
systems and applications. Kyivstar is now the first operator in this
region to enable its subscribers to create and send MMS and SMS
messages conveniently from a PC.

Comverse Messaging PC Client meets the needs and lifestyles of
mobile customers who are also frequent PC users by integrating mobile
messaging seamlessly with two of the most commonly used PC activities:
emailing and Web browsing. By prominently positioning a "Send SMS &
MMS" button on the toolbar at the top of the screen, the service makes
it easy and appealing for PC users to compose messages and enhance
them with pictures and video clips. Moreover, constant visibility on
the toolbar of popular PC applications is an effective way to boost
brand and service awareness.

"The success of this service at Kyivstar proves how easy and
useful it is for people to send user-generated and other content via
SMS and MMS while sitting at their keyboards," said John Bunyan,
Comverse Chief Marketing Officer. "Actual usage has exceeded
expectations. Within two months of service launch, tens of thousands
of Kyivstar subscribers downloaded the Comverse Messaging PC Client
and sent more than half a million SMS and MMS messages from their
computers. This demonstrates how Comverse helps innovative and
responsive operators broaden their reach beyond traditional boundaries
to increase user satisfaction, extend corporate branding, and ramp up
MMS and SMS traffic to boost ARPU."

About Kyivstar

The national mobile communications operator Kyivstar provides
services for more than 23 million subscribers, covering territories
where more than 99.9% of Ukrainian population lives. Kyivstar network
covers all the cities and towns and more than 28 thousand rural
settlements, all main national and regional roads, most of the sea and
river shores of Ukraine. Kyivstar provides GPRS services all over its
coverage territory in Ukraine. Also the company provides international
GPRS-roaming services in 113 countries and territories. In total for
contract subscribers Kyivstar provides roaming services in 184
countries and territories on five continents. Kyivstar provides
Ukrainian people with modern telecommunication technologies at
affordable prices. www.kyivstar.net

About Comverse

Comverse is the world's leading provider of software and
systems enabling network-based messaging and content value-added
services, prepaid, postpaid and 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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Investor/Business Press:
Comverse Technology, Inc.
Paul D. Baker, 212-739-1060
paul.baker@cmvt.com
or
Industry Press:
Comverse, Inc.
Julie Shafiki, 856-608-4601
julie.shafiki@comverse.com

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