PT Expands Xpress Product Portfolio with Next-Gen Telemarketer Guard Solution

PT, a leading global supplier of advanced network communications, today announced the addition of Xpress Telemarketer Guard(TM) to its Xpress suite of then and there generation network solutions. Telemarketer Guard is an advanced software feature that enables residential subscribers to intercept and divert annoying telemarketing calls. TMG is expected to win wide acceptance among service providers worldwide, and is already offered in a major carrier's North American network.

In today's competitive landscape of telecommunications, service providers are losing hundreds of billions of dollars annually to subscriber churn. In order to effectively avoid churn, carriers must first differentiate their services, at the time follow up with close attention to subscriber satisfaction. With PT's Xpress Telemarketer Guard solution, service providers enlist a valuable, network proven solution in their quest for subscriber retention. Xpress Telemarketer Guard is an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use solution that automatically identifies calls from frequent mass callers, and offers options for handling each call. TMG can block the call, send the call to voice mail, or allow the call to proceed, depending on the subscriber's preference. Each subscriber may create a 'reject list' to consequently disallow specific telemarketers, and an 'allow list' giving selected telemarketers access to the subscriber. This solution gives the end-user superior control to that offered by the "Do Not Call Registry." The power of Xpress Telemarketer Guard lies in an innovative design methodology called 'crowd sourced wisdom' that treats the entire subscribed population as individual intelligent filters to identify telemarketers.

"PT recognizes that a service provider's competitive edge depends on top performance infrastructure and a suite of features that enable them to attract and retain a growing subscriber base," said John Grana, Senior V.P. Products and Innovation. "We are dedicated to enhancing our Xpress portfolio of SIP-based services, in order to furnish carriers a rich suite of powerful solutions to build a wide variety of revenue generating services."

PT is a global supplier of advanced network communications solutions to carrier, government, and OEM markets. PT's portfolio includes IP-centric network components and applications designed for high availability, scalability, and long life cycle deployments. The company's entire line of offerings is anchored by IPnexus®, PT's own IP-native, highly integrated platforms and element management systems. OEMs and application developers, including PT itself, leverage the robust carrier grade Linux® development environment and rich suite of communications protocols of IPnexus Application-Ready Systems as a cornerstone component of their end product value proposition. PT's SEGway(TM) Signaling Solutions provide low cost, high density signaling, advanced routing, IP migration, gateway capabilities, SIP bridge, and core-to-edge distributed intelligence, as then as features just as Number Portability and SMS Spam Defense. The company's Xpress(TM) NGN applications enable evolving Mobile 2.0, Multi-media, and IMS based revenue generating services. PT is headquartered in Rochester, NY and maintains sales and engineering offices around the world.