Comverse recently received the highest possible vendor rating from leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc., for providing billing and customer management services to telecom carriers.

The very strong rating was based on Gartner s extensive evaluation of 12 Business Support System BSS vendors. Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008 by Norbert J. Scholz, December 5, 2008

As a recognised leader in billing and active customer management solutions for telecom carriers, Comverse supports customers to drive revenues, particularly with the ability to introduce new services and service bundles in a very fast timeframe, said Gabriel Matsliach, General Manager of Billing and Active Customer Management at Comverse, the world s leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based billing and value-added messaging and content services. We are proud of this very favorable rating on our flagship product, the Comverse ONE Billing Active Customer Management solution.

An electronic version of the Gartner report, Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008 is available online at http: www.comverse.com billingbssmarkettrends .