Telstra announces that it won a Comverse Innovation Award for the engineering design and architecture on its MyConnect™ MyInbox service. The award recognizes the innovative approach that Telstra has taken to develop MyInbox, the next-generation online message, contact and calendar management centre for Next G™ and BigPond® customers. Telstra is Australia's first telecommunications company to offer its subscribers a seamless and consistent messaging experience across all devices and platforms.

Singapore’s largest mobile operator is about to begin delivering ads via its comprehensive mobile advertising offering using Comverse’s HUB Mobile Advertising platform. Tsipi Joseph, Product Marketing Director, Comverse Mobile Advertising, notes that SingTel is fully embracing mobile advertising and positioning itself as a dominant player in the value chain, and explains how Comverse is helping.

This article quotes Director Product Marketing Comverse Americas Mark Pendergast as part of a description of the future where wireless carriers need to be more like Amazon,selling digital goods of all shapes and sizes. If that happens, billing companies are prepared to lend a hand.

Comverse has now emerged from relative obscurity to take its place among the dominant suppliers in the billing market. The massive changes in the industry’s business models have a direct impact on what makes for an effective billing platform. Without question, the momentum it has already gained means that Comverse is no longer an also-ran in the billing market.