AAPT Unifies Billing Across Entire Subscriber Base With Comverse, Heightening Speed, Accuracy and Savings for Multi-Play Operations
With Consolidation, AAPT Extends Comverse BSS Solution to Support Wholesale Customers
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 15, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Comverse (Nasdaq:CMVT), a global leader in BSS, mobile Internet and value-added services, announced today that Australian operator AAPT has replaced its legacy wholesale billing system with Comverse BSS, significantly lowering operating costs and opening a myriad of voice and data service possibilities for all of its user segments.
This replacement is the final stage of AAPT’s successful billing operations consolidation to Comverse BSS. Earlier phases of the project delivered significant operational efficiencies, such as reduced bill and invoice processing times. The current migration of wholesale customers to the Comverse BSS platform should extend such efficiencies across the entire subscriber base.
“Based on our successful longstanding partnership with Comverse, we decided to retire our legacy system and move our retail and wholesale customers to the Comverse BSS solution,” said David Yuile, CEO, AAPT.
“The solution has saved us money by simplifying the complexities of multi-play rating, freeing us to create attractive packages and promotions with minimal effort and quick time to market. This enhances the user experience for all of our business, government and now wholesale customers. Comverse BSS has many advantages that we intend to maximize.”
Optimized for convergent markets, Comverse BSS delivers flexible and powerful customer management, ordering, billing and revenue generation applications. It gives CSPs the tools to manage every aspect of the customer lifecycle — from acquisition through order management to charging and up-sell — regardless of service: fixed, mobile, data, content, cloud-based, and M2M.
“We take pride in the role we played assisting AAPT to establish itself as a strong market success in Australia, and with this extension of the partnership we are ready to move forward further,” said Lionel Chmilewsky, Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Facing Group at Comverse. “We strive to understand and meet the unique needs and business environment of each client. The strengths of the Comverse BSS solution and the unparalleled support we provide to optimize effectiveness often result in extensions of the relationship — here and around the world.”
In addition to its prominent profile in the Australian continent, the Comverse BSS solution supports more than 750 million active subscribers across 85 countries for more than 200 telecom service providers worldwide.
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About AAPT
AAPT is one of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies, offering local and long distance voice, mobile, data and Internet services for business, government and wholesale customers, via its extensive national fiber network. AAPT is 100% owned by Telecom New Zealand, New Zealand’s largest listed company and one of the top 20 largest listed companies on the Australian Stock Exchange. AAPT is one of only three Australian telecommunications providers to own and operate a national voice and data network.
With one of Australia’s most extensive and highest-quality IP networks, AAPT’s dedicated focus is on creating a position for customers to experience a telecommunications partnership unmatched by others.
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 in-network, cloud, 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.
CONTACT: Paul D. Baker Comverse Technology, Inc. paul.baker@cmvt.com (212) 739-1060
