Comverse has received the 2009 Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year award for Asia Pacific from Frost & Sullivan. This is the fifth consecutive year that Comverse has been awarded this honour, which recognises the most outstanding telecom solutions vendor in the BSS (Business Support Systems) segment in Asia Pacific.

The honour was presented at the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Awards banquet in Singapore. Contenders for the Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year Award were evaluated based on key performance criteria during financial year 2008, including growth, market position, portfolio diversity, major wins and key achievements.

Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling value-added services for voice, messaging, mobile internet and mobile advertising, converged billing and active customer management and IP communications. Comverse’s extensive customer base spans more than 130 countries and covers over 500 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, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, IP, IMS or converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For more information, visit www.comverse.com.