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Eagle Mobile (Albanian mobile operator) has launched Voice SMS service across Albania based on the pioneering Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, the world’s leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services.
Voice SMS allows the subscribers to send messages by voice, eliminating the need to type. It enables the subscribers to communicate faster, with greater ease, and convey emotions as compared to limitations of text messages. Use of Voice SMS by mobile subscribers is gaining global relevance for its benefits in surpassing the limitations of text messages.
Commenting on the launch, Alban Tartari, Head of Public & Media Relations Department of Eagle Mobile Albania, said, “We are thrilled to launch Voice SMS and to become the first operator in Europe to provide the Voice SMS solution to our subscribers. We believe that mobile users will find this service a value-add in their day-to-day conversations. Kirusa was chosen for this product as it is the leading VAS player in this segment and was the only one to have a bouquet of advanced revenue generating features to choose from.”
Eagle Mobile subscribers just have to dial ‘*’ followed by the number of the person they wish to send the message to, and speak a short message for upto 30 seconds in any language. The recipient gets a notification message from the sender and can click on a DirectListen™ number to directly listen to and reply to the Voice SMS left for him. Eagle Mobile subscribers can also dial *0* to hear new voice messages, or retrieve previously listened voice messages by dialing *1*. Voice SMS messages can be replied to, forwarded, saved, or deleted. To send a Voice SMS, Eagle Mobile users pay a price of 16.2 lek including VAT (approximately 0.17 USD).
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, CEO and Founder of Kirusa said, “We are pleased that Eagle Mobile has chosen Kirusa to launch Voice SMS service on its network. With widespread adoption amongst users in Asia, Middle East, and Africa, we hope it would be successful in enriching people’s lives in Europe by providing them innovative and easy ways to communicate.” • 11-1-10
Eagle Mobile is the youngest mobile operator in Albania. It was established on 23rd October 2003 by the Albanian government as a company owned by Alb Telecom.
Kirusa is the world’s leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful KV.SMS, the world’s most advanced “Voice SMS” solution that has been selected by more than thirty carriers around the world. Kirusa Voice SMS enables mobile subscribers to send messages by speaking.
Telecomunicaciones – Nuevos servicios
El operador móvil español fonYou Telecom presentó en Silicon Valley, en el renombrado evento Under The Radar, su plataforma de Telefonía Móvil Online para operadores de telecomunicaciones como respuesta a iniciativas como la de Google Voice.
La Plataforma de Telefonía Móvil Online, desarrollada en su totalidad por fonYou y en funcionamiento en España desde el pasado julio en su web, se presenta como la solución para operadores que convierte la telefonía móvil en una experiencia Web 2.0. Así, el operador podrá ofrecer una nueva generación de servicios online a sus clientes, con los que el propio usuario podrá gestionar su telefonía móvil como si se tratase de una cuenta de correo electrónico.
La solución de Telefonía Móvil Online de fonYou aporta al operador una plataforma con la que puede ofrecer servicios de alto valor basados en Internet y totalmente integrados con sus servicios de red habituales, añadiendo valor para sus usuarios.
“Con nuestra innovadora propuesta queremos apoyar a los operadores en asegurar su posición en los nuevos segmentos de Internet, fidelizar mejor a sus clientes con servicios online de alto valor y retomar el control sobre los modelos de negocio de la nueva generación” afirma el consejero delegado de fonYou Telecom, Fernando Núñez Mendoza.
En la actualidad, los operadores se enfrentan a una nueva generación de competidores que operan con agresivos modelos de negocios que ofrecen servicios de telefonía basados en Internet.
Empresas como Skype, que ya controla el 8% de las llamadas internacionales a nivel global; Google, que recientemente lanzó su nuevo servicio Google Voice; o Jajah, cuya aplicación de telefonía está disponible para unos 100 millones de usuarios del Yahoo Messenger, están entrando de lleno en el lucrativo y hasta ahora exclusivo negocio de las telecomunicaciones, ofreciendo servicios de telefonía directamente a los usuarios sin la mediación de los operadores tradicionales. Todas estas nuevas propuestas están alienando a los operadores de red que quedan como meros canalizadores de transporte de tráfico, sin aportar ningún valor adicional a las comunicaciones.
Under the Radar es una jornada especializada en el sector de la tecnología en la que una selección de 20 nuevas empresas con modelos rompedores tiene la oportunidad de presentarse. Entre las elegidas en ediciones anteriores figuran empresas como LinkedIn, AdMob o Flickr. • 20-11-09
fonYou Telecom se creó en 2006 y se dedica a reinventar la telefonía móvil para la era Internet. En el año 2008 firmó un acuerdo de operador móvil virtual (OMV) completo con Telefónica para ofrecer servicios móviles en todo el territorio español sobre la red de este operador. El 9 de julio de 2009 fonYou presentó www.fonyou.com el primer operador en utilizar la Plataforma de Telefonía Móvil Online, que ofrece una nueva generación de servicios Internet proporcionando a los usuarios el control total de su telefonía. Con el fin de potenciar su crecimiento internacional, fonYou Telecom licencia su modelo de negocio y tecnología desarrollando alianzas estratégicas con otros operadores de red, operadores móviles virtuales e ISP internacionales, ofreciendo su innovador concepto de Telefonía Móvil Online.
Orange + Alcatel-Lucent • MWC10
Together with Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), Orange has successfully completed the first phase of its trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband technology with a live network in France. This trial enabled Orange to develop hands-on insights into the capabilities of LTE technology and evaluate how it performs in a real, live network environment.
Following the trial’s first phase, Orange is evaluating the introduction of new multimedia applications over an LTE mobile network, such as voice over IP (VoIP) steered by IMS and streaming video. This is part of Orange’s on going work towards preparing for a timely implementation of LTE in support of customer demand.
After initial testing in Orange’s R&D laboratories, a network was deployed in the vicinity of Orange France’s offices in the south of Paris to conduct LTE tests in actual operating conditions using the 2.6 GHz frequency band. Results revealed excellent network stability and very good performance, in line with 3GPP standards expectations, using Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end LTE solution.
“The first results obtained on the LTE trial network are encouraging: the user experience and the quality are very good inside the buildings as well as on the move.” said Alain Maloberti, Group VP, Networks, Architecture and Design for France Telecom-Orange. “We are confident in the capability of the LTE technology to provide improved customer experience, easier network configuration & management and reduced cost to serve. We are eager to proceed to the next phases of our trial, including VoIP, service continuity between 3G and LTE, video streaming, and self-optimisation.”
The end-to-end LTE solution deployed by Alcatel-Lucent for the trial included base stations (eNodeBs), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and its associated management system. Alcatel-Lucent provided critical professional services such as the installation and commissioning for all of the equipment deployed for the LTE trial as well as configuration, performance monitoring and fault management. The network will also utilize subscriber services provided by Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Mobile TV offerings – supporting a consistent multi-screen experience for communication and entertainment services. • 5-2-10
Vodafone Germany and Huawei agreement
Vodafone Germany and Huawei today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct a joint test gauging the performance of LTE (Long Term Evolution) in the Digital Dividend Band. This agreement marks a joint initiative to validate LTE' s application within the Digital Dividend Band (790-862MHz) using Huawei' s end-to-end LTE solution.
From this summer the cooperation will see Vodafone Germany and Huawei not only demonstrate LTE' s ability to provide broadband coverage to rural and urban areas, effectively bridging the digital divide between those areas of Germany, but also to prove its compatibility with adjacent technologies such as Digital TV and Digital Radio. The test will be based on Huawei' s end-to-end solutions and both parties will form a joint working group for conducting the test.
Hartmut Kremling, CTO of Vodafone Germany said: 'Vodafone is an active player in bringing leading broadband services to Germany. By cooperating with local telecoms authorities, utilising the rich LTE experiences from Vodafone Germany and Huawei, we are confident that the test will be carried out successfully.'
Vincent Pang, Vice President and Head of Huawei Vodafone Business Unit said: 'We are very pleased that Vodafone Germany chose Huawei as the partner for this test, which is another milestone for the collaboration between our two companies. Huawei will leverage its cutting edge LTE technologies to ensure Vodafone Germany remains ahead of the market as well as help it to achieve sustainable growth in the future.' • Vodafone (4-8-09)
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