Comverse Network Systems Announces Nex2Me Mobile Instant Messaging Solution

Business Wire, May 30, 2000

Business & High Tech Editors

SUPERCOMM 2000

WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000

WAP/SMS Service Enables Creation of Dynamic Mobile Communities

Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based enhanced services, today announced the availability of its' new Nex2Me(TM) wireless instant messaging solution.

Nex2Me is a suite of mobile instant communications applications that enables the creation of mobile communities among mobile and Internet users. A WAP and SMS-based service, Nex2Me is an integral new part of Comverse's mobile Internet offering. A demonstration will be shown next week at SUPERCOMM 2000 in Atlanta at the Comverse Network Systems booth No. 2555.

Nex2Me leverages the unique strengths of both the Internet and cellular networks to deliver real-time communications services to mobile users. Combining both voice communications and text messaging, Nex2Me lets mobile users easily keep in touch with friends and family, as well as establish anonymous connections with other mobile and Internet users who share similar interests. Nex2Me is a powerful new service that enables service providers to build new revenues streams, improve market differentiation, attract new subscribers and retain existing customers.

"Nex2Me empowers the building of dynamic mobile communities and their integration with existing Internet-based communities," said Itsik Danziger, President and Chief Operating Officer of Comverse Network Systems. "Nex2Me takes instant messaging to another level by integrating full voice capabilities. When users receive notification that one of their 'buddies' is available, what could be more natural than pressing a button to initiate a live voice conversation? By uniquely combining the advantages of voice- and text-based messaging, Nex2Me delivers the ultimate user experience to mobile subscribers."

The Nex2Me platform can accommodate a wide variety of applications developed by Comverse Network Systems and third-party developers. Nex2Me applications for mobile users include:

-- Personal Instant Communications - providing one-to-one mobile instant
communications based on both voice- and text-based messaging.

-- Mobile Matchfinder - connecting two anonymous users around a shared topic of
interest.

-- Mobile Chat - enabling voice- and text-based chat sessions between multiple
anonymous users.

According to industry expert Jeff Pulver, a leading figure in the Internet telephony world, "Wireless instant messaging can build on the huge and rapidly growing base of instant messaging users on the Internet. Mobile communications have the potential to harness the success of Internet instant messaging and extend this killer application into the mobile world."

Nex2Me offers advanced features that facilitate instant communications between mobile and Internet users. Nex2Me users can set their own availability status, receive location-based information about members of their interest groups, and connect with other users based on predefined criteria - all without compromising user anonymity and privacy.

About Comverse Network Systems

Comverse's Network Systems is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling enhanced services for wireless and wireline communications service providers with over 320 communications customers in more than 90 countries. Comverse Network Systems' software and systems enable a wide range of multimedia enhanced services, which generate revenues, provide competitive differentiation, and increase customer acquisition and retention. The services include: call answering, wireless data and Internet-based information services, prepaid wireless services, mailbox-to-mailbox messaging, Internet-based unified messaging (voice, fax, and email in a single mailbox), interactive voice response, virtual phone/fax, one-touch call return, personal number service, call screening/caller introduction, voice-controlled web portal and other speech recognition-based services, Internet messaging, Internet call waiting, and other personal communication services. For additional information, visit Comverse Network Systems' web site at http://www.comversens.com.

About Comverse Technology, Inc.

Comverse Technology, Inc., headquartered in Woodbury, New York, designs, develops, manufactures and markets computer and telecommunications systems and software for communications and information processing applications. In addition to its Network Systems Division, Comverse's operations include: Comverse Infosys, which provides: multiple channel, multimedia digital recording, logging, and quality monitoring systems marketed to call centers, financial institutions and other organizations, and multiple channel, multimedia digital monitoring systems marketed to law enforcement and intelligence agencies; and Ulticom, which is a leading provider of network signaling software for wireless, wireline, and Internet communication services. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. Visit Comverse Technology's web site at http://www.comverse.com.