JT Selects Comverse ONE Converged BSS for Business Transformation

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.