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Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Mon, January 26, 2009 MTS Ukraine Launches Comverse?s Services to Transform Unanswered Mobile Phone Calls into Revenues
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--One of Ukraine's largest wireless operators, MTS Ukraine (NYSE: MBT), has successfully deployed Comverse's Total Call Completion Suite, which maximizes revenues from uncompleted phone calls and improves the subscriber's overall user experience.
All 20 million MTS Ukraine subscribers now can find out who tried to call them, providing an easy way to return the call. In a similar fashion, another Comverse service can notify MTS subscribers when a previously unreachable person is free to talk on the phone, which eliminates the need for repeat dialing. In both cases, text messaging is used to notify subscribers.
Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based billing and value-added messaging and content services, developed the two services, aptly known as "Who Called" and "Notify Me," because roughly 30 percent of calls go unanswered.
"Our chief goal is to provide our subscribers with telecommunication services of the highest quality, as has been the trademark of the MTS Group," said Vasyl Latsanych, Marketing Director at MTS Ukraine. "The Call Completion Suite allows us to enhance the user experience by giving our customers a richer array of capabilities and control. The new services are available to all of our subscribers, helping them to keep in touch and designed to ensure that they do not miss a single call."
The Comverse solutions are complemented by friendly end-user customization capabilities, as well as comprehensive reporting tools that provide strategic information to help operators optimize marketing decisions.
"The Total Call Completion Suite is a comprehensive solution whose unified, optimized call flow ensures a coherent user experience that seeks to maximize revenue from all formerly unsuccessful call attempts," said Dror Bin, President of Comverse Products Group.
About MTS Ukraine
The MTS Ukraine network covers more than 97% of Ukraine territory where 99% of the population live. The company serves more than 20 million subscribers. MTS Ukraine owns licenses for providing mobile (GSM 900/1800, CDMA-450), fixed, toll, and long-distance communication services, and provides international roaming services on five continents.
MTS Ukraine is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mobile Telesystems (MTS) (NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, MTS provides services to more than 87.57 million subscribers. The 82 regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, where MTS and its subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. The Company's shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange since June, 2000. MTS Ukraine Press Contact: Vlad Voitovitch Tel: 8 050 110 3134 [ vvoitovich@mts.com.ua ]
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, mobile advertising 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 productportfolio facilitates personalized lifestyles in an evolving connected world and is based on the InSight™ 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 ].
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