WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market share in the country.
Comverse’s solution gives consumers a “one-stop” communications account with which they can send, receive and respond to voice, e-mail and fax messages using any wired or wireless phone, personal digital assistant or PC. In addition, the solution allows for multimedia messaging on GPRS and UMTS networks, which includes creating, sending, receiving and responding to rich-media messages with audio, pictures, text, animation and streaming video.