Comverse wins Excellence Award

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has received Billing & OSS
World's Excellence Award for Best Cost Management Implementation
for consolidating GCI's multiple lines of business into Comverse's
multi-service convergent Business Support System (BSS) solution.

“Comverse's achievements were
judged by a panel of experts as being exemplary among its peers,”
said Mike Saxby, publisher of Billing & OSS World magazine.
“Billing & OSS World is pleased to acknowledge Comverse as an
example of excellence in best cost management implementations for the
telecommunications industry.”

“The Comverse BSS Solution enables
GCI to deliver bundled service offerings, drive new revenues and
streamline its billing operations by using one system to support its
entire product portfolio,” said Garrison Macri, Senior VP-North
America, Comverse. "We are honored to receive this important
industry award, which is a tribute to the outstanding cooperation
between the GCI and Comverse implementation teams," Macri said.

“We continue to gain great benefits
from working with Comverse,” said Jim Dunlap, President of Cycle30,
a GCI company that operates all of GCI's order-to-cash billing and
other BSS systems. “Comverse's leadership in converged BSS
solutions worldwide provides strength and flexibility at the core of
GCI's and Cycle30's overall order-to-cash platform,” Dunlap
added.