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To: Mark Ambrose who wrote (626)	2/8/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 1331

Comverse Network Systems Expands Its Intelligent Short Message Service Center's Support For All Types Of Digital Wireless Networks WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1999-- Gives Wireless Subscribers Easy Access To Wireless Data Services And The Internet Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of enhanced services platforms to wireless and wireline network operators, today announced that it has expanded its Intelligent Short Message Service Center's (ISMSC) support for CDMA , TDMA, GSM, and other wireless networks, giving more subscribers access to the Internet and a variety of wireless data services. Now available with the IS-41C interface to operate in CDMA and TDMA networks, Comverse's ISMSC enables operators of wireless networks to deliver a variety of real-time information and wireless data services, enabling their subscribers to control their messages and gain access to information services and the Internet from anywhere at any time. Kobi Alexander, Chairman and CEO of Comverse Technology, said, "The extensive rollout of digital wireless networks has created a significant opportunity for wireless data applications which use Short Message Service as a transport medium. Services such as the delivery of short e-mail messages, information services, and wireless access to the Internet can all be enabled via a Short Message Service. Comverse, as a supplier of enhanced services platforms to more than 150 digital wireless network operators, is well positioned to address this opportunity." By interfacing the Comverse ISMSC to a Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) gateway, for example, wireless operators enable their subscribers to take advantage of the vast information store available on the Internet. Using their WAP-enabled handsets, subscribers can seek out and gain access to a whole new range of Web-based information services and applications, at any time, wherever they may be. Comverse's ISMSC also enables network operators to provide a variety of information services to their subscribers, delivering information such as stock updates, news headlines, sports scores, and weather and traffic reports, directly to subscribers' handsets. Network operators can help busy subscribers stay current with personal and business interests by sending updated short messages to the subscriber's handset when new information in their categories of interest becomes available. With the Comverse ISMSC, a wireless operator enables its subscribers to keep track of e-mail messages, in addition to their voice mail and short text messages. When an e-mail user sends an e-mail message to a wireless subscriber, the subscriber can receive notification of the e-mail via a short e-mail message sent directly to their wireless handset. The Comverse ISMSC supports the full range of wireless network connectivity options, including CDMA, TDMA, GSM, DCS-1800, and PCS-1900. The Comverse ISMSC currently is deployed in over 50 networks worldwide. Comverse is demonstrating its ISMSC at booth #3815 at the CTIA Wireless '99 show in New Orleans, Louisiana February 8-10, 1999.