WAKEFIELD, Mass., Oct. 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comverse, a global leader in BSS, mobile Internet and value-added services, announced today that JT, a leading operator based in the Channel Islands, has selected the Comverse ONE® Billing and Active Customer Management™ solution to power a significant business transformation that will enable it to increase operational effectiveness and business agility throughout its converged multiple-play portfolio. Replacing two legacy billing solutions and a number of specially tailored IT applications, Comverse ONE will provide JT with a fully converged BSS.
Dave Newbold, Chief Operations and Technology Officer at JT, said, "We operate in a highly competitive marketplace, and continually look to improve our products and services to satisfy our customers' requirements. To do this, JT needed to move to a converged billing and CRM solution that would support our growth ambitions. Comverse ONE's single-system approach to BSS convergence offers us the customer management, marketing and charging agility we were looking for, and also enables us to take advantage of new opportunities not only in the Channel Islands, but also as JT moves and expands into new markets."
Optimized for evolving technologies and convergent markets, Comverse ONE delivers flexible and powerful customer management, ordering, billing and revenue generation applications suitable for any market vertical: wholesale, enterprise and residential. As a single system, converged BSS streamlines business processes across the entire organization from CRM to billing, providing CSPs with the ability to enhance every aspect of the customer lifecycle – from acquisition through order management to charging and up-sell – in the most efficient manner.
"Around the world, profound changes in technology are transforming the way consumers and enterprises communicate and do business," said Lionel Chmilewsky, Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Facing Group at Comverse. "In this 'always-on' multi-service landscape, Comverse ONE, the industry's pre-eminent single-system converged BSS offering built around a unified data model, seamlessly addresses all aspects of convergence, bridging the network and IT for end-to-end flows that dramatically reduce complexity and integration points for heightened efficiency. Operators gain significant operational savings, a richer service portfolio and speedier time to market. We look forward to effectively helping JT meet the diverse needs of its varied customer base into the future."
Comverse is a global leader in converged billing. Comverse BSS solutions serve more than 200 service providers around the world supporting over 750 million active subscribers.
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About JT
JT is part of the JT Group Limited, an innovative and progressive communications enabler. We provide world-class products and solutions to a diverse client base of business and retail customers. Based in the Channel Islands, the JT Group Limited also includes Wave Telecom in Guernsey and JT Global; a Business Division focused on the delivery of innovative telecommunications solutions and services, plus eKit; a company which provides advanced technology to reduce mobile roaming charges for customers around the world.
The JT Group Limited has gone from strength to strength and is now the leading pan-island communications provider. JT has invested heavily in a resilient off-island network, helping further connect the Channel Islands internationally and support our place on the global business stage.
The JT product range encompasses all the products and services expected from a cutting edge provider including Voice and Data, Consultancy, Co-Location, Internet, Security, Mobile and Support Services and is widely recognized as the largest provider of data hosting services within the Channel Islands. JT Group Limited are the provider of choice for all your business needs making us the ideal partner for businesses small or large, local or international.
JT Specialties include Gigabit Broadband - Fibre-to-the-Home, Data Hosting & Co-Location, fixed & mobile technologies, wholesale solutions.
For further information about JT, please visit www.jtglobal.com or contact Dave Newbold, JT's Chief Operations and Technology Officer by email to dave.newbold@jtglobal.com
About Comverse
Comverse is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling converged billing and active customer management, mobile Internet, and value-added 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 support flexible deployment models, including cloud, in-network, hosted and managed services. Comverse, ranked number 55 in PwC's Global 100 Software Leaders based on research by Pierre Audoin Consultants, is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMVT). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.
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