Bahamas Telecommunications Company Deploys Comverse InSightâ„¢ Open Services Environment and Services for Fixed Network Subs

April 01, 2008 | WAKEFIELD, MA

Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that Bahamas Telecommunications Company, LTD. (BTC), the leading telecommunications service provider in the Bahamas for more than 100 years, has launched Comverse’s InSight™ Open Service Environment together with voicemail and key related services for its fixed network subscribers.

“In line with our passionate pursuit of excellence, a core value of ours, we strive to provide all of our customers with a superior experience and the best available services on the market,” said Marlon S. Johnson, Vice President Marketing, Sales and Business Development at BTC LTD. “We view Comverse’s best-in-class InSight platform as a strategic element in our mission to continually improve customer satisfaction by introducing advanced services and future-friendly capabilities.”

Comverse InSight Open Services Environment equips operators like BTC for the future by providing an open and modular environment for the launch and delivery of a wide variety of communication, messaging and content services over IP, circuit-switched, hybrid and IMS networks. InSight’s IP-based architecture and standard interfaces enable core components to be shared by multiple services, significantly reducing operational costs and speeding time-to-market of new services.

“Comverse’s feature-rich next-generation voicemail solution and its rich application suite draw from the company’s vast experience as the world’s leading voicemail solutions provider with the largest global user base. InSight provides a superior user experience for voice and multimedia value-added services for fixed, mobile, cable, broadband and converged operators,” said Ramesh Barasia, President of Comverse Americas division. “BTC joins the rapidly-growing InSight community of well more than 100 operators around the world that have chosen the InSight Open Services Environment to provide next-generation services to hundreds of millions of subscribers.”

About BTC
The Bahamas Telecommunication Company Limited (BTC) has been the provider of telecommunications services in the Bahamas for more than 100 years. Today with more than 1,100 employees dedicated to delivering superior telecommunication services throughout the archipelago of the Bahamas, BTC offers a full suite of telecommunication services including: Wireless, telegraph and telex, mobile trunking, private lines, frame relay, leased line, ISDN maritime, cellular, high speed DSL Internet, packet switching, prepaid phone cards, customer local area signalling services.

BTC is dedicated to providing efficient and competitive telecommunication services designed to allow the Bahamas to maintain its competitive advantages in the areas of tourism and financial services.

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 CommunicationSM portfolio 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. All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s).