Comverse ONE BSS Opens New Opportunities for Trilogy Dominicana (Viva)

Unified View and Real-Time User Information Enhance Customer Experience


WAKEFIELD, Mass., Feb. 27, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dominican Republic operator Trilogy Dominicana (Viva), a subsidiary of Trilogy International Partners, has implemented the Comverse ONE® Billing & Active Customer Management™ solution for Real-Time Billing, Comverse (Nasdaq:CNSI) announced today.

Comverse ONE's unified view of subscriber account information and real-time authorization, rating, charging and balance management for voice, data and other value-added services positions Viva to enhance its market offerings, improve the user experience, and achieve significant OPEX reduction.

"As a long-standing Comverse Real-Time Billing customer, we chose to implement the Comverse ONE solution for its proven real-time capabilities. Since going live, Viva Dominicana has benefited from harnessing real-time marketing capabilities across our multi-service portfolio, enhanced data support to better monetize our data services, and leveraged capabilities to simplify and accelerate new offer introduction," said Mario Campos, Vice President at Viva. "We are enhancing the user experience by introducing targeted/personalized services, offers and promotions. Moreover, by leveraging the solution's roaming and calling card capabilities, we are responding quickly to opportunities created by the large numbers of tourists visiting our country."

Additional Comverse services, including SMS and MMS (text and multimedia messaging) and Mobile Internet, are helping Viva to boost profitability and fuel growth in its competitive market.

"Comverse ONE addresses a broad range of operator monetization and service enablement needs with industry-proven capabilities that enable offer segmentation, smart monetization and operational efficiencies," said Raman Abrol, VP and Managing Director of the Caribbean and Latin America for Comverse, the global leader in telecom business enablement through service innovation and smart monetization provided by a rich portfolio of BSS, Mobile Internet, Value Added Services, IP Communications and Professional Services.

"This is another success story about a close long-term relationship rooted in our customer-first focus – and a solution portfolio with unparalleled strength and depth that opens the way to lucrative new opportunities for CSPs," concluded Abrol.

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About Trilogy International Partners

Trilogy International Partners, LLC, ("Trilogy") invests in wireless telecommunication operations in international markets that exhibit strong opportunities for significant growth. A privately held company, Trilogy's corporate headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington. Trilogy also maintains a regional operations office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Trilogy currently provides wireless communications services through its operating companies in New Zealand, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic. These businesses hold licenses to provide wireless communications services to over 4 million people. In addition to wireless services, the operating companies are also authorized to provide termination and origination of international long distance, public telephony and mobile data services. www.trilogy-international.com

About Comverse

Comverse® is the world's leading provider of telecom business enablement solutions that support service innovation and smart monetization through a rich portfolio of BSS, Mobile Internet, Value Added Services, IP Communications and Professional Services. Comverse's extensive customer base spans more than 125 countries and covers over 450 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers. The company's innovative product portfolio enables communication service providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by making their networks smarter. Comverse's solutions are available in a variety of delivery models, including on-site, cloud, hosted and managed services. Comverse is ranked number 55 in PwC's Global 100 Software Leaders list.  For more information, visit www.comverse.com.

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