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MWC – ST-Ericsson unveils NovaThor family of smartphone platforms

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ST-Ericsson, a specialist in wireless platforms and semiconductors, has announced its new Nova application processors, its new Thor advanced modems and its range of NovaThor complete integrated platform solutions.

“By offering the most advanced application processors combined with our latest generation of thin HSPA+ and LTE modems, ST-Ericsson is setting new performance standards for our industry.” said Gilles Delfassy, president and CEO of ST-Ericsson. “Our approach will accelerate innovation in the smartphone and tablet markets enabling consumers to experience human-machine interfaces based on gesture, voice and image recognition, 3D cameras and life-like augmented reality.”

ST-Ericsson’s NovaThor platforms, based on a scalable architecture, combine application engines, modems and connectivity chipsets into fully-integrated and tested solutions, which device manufacturers can use to quickly roll out a new wave of advanced smartphones and tablets with trailblazing multimedia capabilities across all segments.

At the high end, the NovaThor platforms offer device makers the opportunity to bring leading-edge smartphones to market swiftly by combining

ST-Ericsson’s very latest modems and application processors. In the mainstream smartphone segment, manufacturers can benefit by using ST-Ericsson’s highly-integrated platforms, in which modems and application processors are built into a single piece of silicon, to produce compact and affordable devices. The scalable architecture enables reuse of manufacturers’ R&D investment across the entire range of their smartphone and tablet portfolios.

ST-Ericsson today announced three new application processors, the Nova A9600, A9540, A9500 together with two next generation modems the Thor M7400 and M7300 as well as two additions to its complete highly integrated smartphone platforms the NovaThor T5008 and U4500.

ST-Ericsson’s new Nova A9600 brings over 200 percent more mobile computing performance compared to the U8500 platform. It features the industry’s best and most efficient low-power implementation known today of a dual ARM® Cortex- A15 MPCore(TM) with each core running up to 2.5GHz thanks to very innovative power saving techniques to be disclosed later this year.

“As the selection of advanced smartphones and tablets increases we see the need for a wider range of performance points to be addressed,” said Mike Inglis, EVP and general manager of the ARM Processor Division, “This announcement shows the performance that can be achieved by combining the Cortex-A15 processor with integrated LTE modems.”

The Nova A9600 will be the first platform announced to incorporate Imagination Technologies next generation of graphics processors, codenamed “Rogue”, which will set a new performance bar for GPUs at mobile power consumption levels. The Nova A9600 will bring more than a 20-fold improvement in graphics performance compared with the U8500 platform.

“POWERVR Series6, codenamed ‘Rogue’, moves the goalposts in terms of graphics performance and efficiency at low power consumption for next generation mobile.” said Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies. “We are delighted to be working with ST-Ericsson on such a groundbreaking product.”

The Nova A9600 will also be able to play full HD video at 120 frames per second, supporting professional camcorder-quality recording in 3D, as well as high definition videoconferencing and tele-presence.

ST-Ericsson also unveiled the Nova A9540, a dual-core ARM Cortex- A9-based processor, with each core operating at up to1.8 GHz, and the Nova A9500, a dual-core ARM Cortex- A9-based processor, running at 1.2 GHz. The Nova A9540 delivers a four times improvement in graphics performance compared with the current generation, while the A9500 delivers state-of-the-art graphic capabilities on mobile devices.

ST-Ericsson’s new Thor modems, the Thor M7400 and the Thor M7300, support the latest LTE and HSPA+ dual carrier technologies, while preserving backward compatibility with existing 3G/2G networks, in a small and highly-integrated radio solution that supports up to eight LTE/WCDMA/GSM frequency bands. These modems enable the development of truly global smartphones, tablets and many other mobile broadband-enabled devices.

The Thor modems and Nova application processors will be offered as combined NovaThor solutions which match the most advanced application processors with the latest modem technologies. Finally ST-Ericsson introduced the NovaThor T5008 and U4500 platforms which combine application processor and modem in a single die delivering all the benefits of integration, including size, power and bill-of-material advantages.

MWC – Tecnotree to help CSPs to create personalized, customer driven digital marketplaces with launch of new product and solution portfolio

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Tecnotree has today announced an expanded product and solution offering to support its new corporate strategy as a broad-scale IT solution and service platform provider for communications service provider (CSPs).

Tecnotree Agility, the new suite of revenue & customer management and value driving modules, includes:

 ·         Revenue – convergent, real-time charging & rating, convergent billing and distribution management

·         Customer – customer care, product management and customer lifecycle management

·         Value – messaging, media & entertainment service applications and service platforms

As part of the product suite, Tecnotree is launching two new products to the market:

 ·         Unified Product Catalogue – enables CSPs to combine all of their fixed, mobile and broadband products and services into a single repository and selection menu, where each subscriber can pick and choose their preferred service bundles.

·         Customer Lifecycle Management – maximizes profitability and customer experience by proactively analyzing, anticipating and predicting how, with what, and when each customer wants to be served.

 
Unified Product Catalogue bundles can cover all the aspects of provisioning triple-play (fixed telephony, mobile, broadband) or quad-play (including cable or Internet TV) services, to charging, rating, and ultimately billing. Customers can choose from prepaid, postpaid and hybrid charging models for these services. The bundles can contain products and services from operators and from a number of content and application partners, including music, media, gaming, or entertainment services.

Customer Lifecycle Management allows CSPs to convert customer billing data into actionable intelligence for cross-selling and customer retention activities.  Customer care can be personalised and service usage analytics and automated enactment can be used for triggering personalized marketing offers.

Kaj Hagros, president and CEO of Tecnotree, commented: “CSPs cannot stick to their guns anymore – they need to be expanding their offering to create a digital marketplace of services. Customers deserve to be offered a totally new level of empowerment and freedom to choose which services they want to use, how they want to bundle them, how much and through which channels.

“Bundling, provisioning, charging and billing of third party services require agility, flexibility and integration from the underlying business IT system. Tecnotree’s new strategy will help our customers redefine the value chain in addition to focusing on our traditionally strong prepaid charging, messaging and value added service solutions.”

Both new products have become part of wider Tecnotree solution offering consisting of three areas: Bundle Services for Every Taste, Boost Customer Lifetime Value and Create Digital Marketplaces. Each solution area consists of four solutions that will be launched at the Mobile World Congress. The new products, Unified Product Catalogue and Customer Lifecycle Management, are both critical ingredients within areas Bundle Services for Every Taste and Boost Customer Lifetime Value solutions.

Karl Whitelock, director OSS BSS strategy, Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, comments: “CSPs are no longer the end-to-end provider of what customers want. Alluring new services for both business and consumers now involve the resources from multiple suppliers working in collaboration with the community to define, deliver and support the right stuff at the right time. There’s now a golden opportunity to increase customer loyalty by using flexible service definition and personalization features.”

Tecnotree was formerly known as Tecnomen before the company merged in May 2009 with the Indian telecommunications product company Lifetree Convergence.

MWC – Mobile enterprise the next big growth area, says Movius

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Exciting new applications, converging technologies and the arrival of 4G/LTE networks will create major growth potential for carriers in the mobile enterprise market. That was the message given yesterday at the opening of the Mobile World Congress by Dominic Gomez, the CEO of unified messaging company Movius Interactive Corporation.

Gomez said that applications such as easy to use audio and videoconferencing and multi-line mobile devices would be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of creating opportunities for mobile operators looking to increase their enterprise revenues.

“We work with over 200 carriers around the world and we know that they are looking to boost revenues from the mobile enterprise space,” said Gomez.

“With more and more people across the world utilising the freedom offered by smart devices and tablet PCs to work remotely, the time is absolutely right to increase that flexibility with solutions that not only help them to work smarter but to play smarter too.”

Gomez was talking as Movius – which works in more than 70 countries worldwide – launched a new multimedia conferencing capability which builds on its current conferencing offering and allows operators to offer a pre-pay charging-enabled feature while at the same time is designed to be easy to deploy via 4G clients or the web.

“Young professionals want the ability to conference both easily and on the move and as they advance their positions within their organisations they will have this need more and more – creating further opportunities for operators within the business environment,” said Gomez.

Movius also unveiled the latest version of its highly successful Side-Line Service which allows operators to boost ARPU and reduce churn by offering customers multiple lines on a single device. Gomez sees this as an excellent opportunity for mobile enterprise, both in developing markets where small business entrepreneurs can now run separate businesses from a single device, to advanced markets where people will find it easier to keep their business and social lives separate.

“These are exciting times for carriers who are looking to embrace the opportunities of mobile enterprise. Together, we have a real opportunity to simplify communications and lower costs for an increasingly mobile workforce,” concluded Gomez.

MWC – NEC launches ‘Cloud in Your Pocket’

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NEC announced today the launch of “Cloud in Your Pocket”, the first mobile cloud service that provides connected and non-connected users with ubiquitous, secure and reliable access to their cloud resources and cloud environment, whether they are on- or off-line or have access to high-speed broadband.

“The NEC Cloud in Your Pocket has made the Mobile Cloud a reality by enabling mobile operators to provide pervasive mobile access to cloud resources – and profit from new services over the Cloud,” said Jaime Serrano, Cloud NEC Europe VP, President & CEO, NEC Iberica. “For the first time, a Cloud working environment is available anytime, anywhere and regardless of online connectivity or broadband speeds. Users can continue to manage and process their work even, for example, while in-flight and synchronise any updates via the Cloud as soon as they land at the airport.”

NEC has developed mobile cloud software that can be installed on a small, personal cloud device – “Cloud in Your Pocket” – such as a 3G/LTE modem or USB dongle. The Cloud in Your Pocket software allows users when offline or experiencing poor connectivity conditions to update and manage their own Cloud resources and data. Once connectivity is re-established data is synchronized immediately and backed-up at a secure carrier or data centre. Crucially, it provides a safe environment when used with any PC, laptop or thin client by automatically encrypting information and applications.

Should the user lose or forget their Cloud in Your Pocket device, they can gain access to their cloud resources from any online connected device while they wait for a replacement.

NEC has developed a suite of Cloud in Your Pocket services including Small Business Cloud in Your Pocket; Enterprise Cloud in Your Pocket; SaaS (*1) Cloud in Your Pocket and Virtual Desktop Cloud in Your Pocket.

“The NEC Cloud in a Pocket suite of services changes the dynamics of the Cloud and liberates the Mobile Cloud. It is no longer a set of services limited by connectivity and bandwidth. The always accessible, secure functionality of Cloud in Your Pocket will propel the Cloud to the dominant method of IT delivery, enabling carriers to enter a new cloud era and monetize their existing and future infrastructure investments,” continued Mr Serrano.

NEC Cloud in a Pocket is available now and will be offered through different carriers as well as to enterprise customers. It can be deployed at public, private or hybrid clouds.

MWC – Gemalto and iPass connect mobile operators to over 260,000 Wi-Fi hotspots globally

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Gemalto, a global specialist in digital security, today announced that it has entered into a Technology Collaboration Agreement with iPass, a provider of enterprise mobility services. The collaboration expands the benefits of the Gemalto Roaming Director, and provides mobile operators with a customised global Wi-Fi roaming solution.

Gemalto’s Roaming Director is a service solution that enables mobile operators to dynamically connect subscribers to their preferred 2G and 3G roaming partners. By adding the global Wi-Fi roaming capability to Roaming Director, mobile operators will go to market more quickly with a comprehensive mobility offering that provides their roaming subscribers with greater choices of network connectivity.

The Gemalto-iPass collaboration enables mobile subscribers traveling abroad to seamlessly access Wi-Fi  from their handset in one click, without the need to enter additional credentials or buy a voucher. By utilising the iPass Open Mobile client for smartphones, subscribers can access over 260,000 hotspots. The new service is charged to the user on their mobile phone bill.

“With the increasing use of mobile Internet devices and Wi-Fi being so pervasive, consumers are demanding more mobile connectivity,” commented Jean-François Schreiber, senior vice president Gemalto. “The combined roaming offering from Gemalto and iPass provides mobile users with simple and convenient Wi-Fi access when travelling abroad. It also enables mobile operators to better target different customer segments.”

“iPass has built the world’s largest commercial Wi-Fi network,” added Rod Brewster, vice president of business development and alliances at iPass. “Our collaboration with Gemalto will provide mobile operators with a cost effective implementation of a proven and secure alternative for network connectivity. Additionally, mobile roaming subscribers will have the flexibility to access high bandwidth applications at faster speeds and at lower costs.”

MWC – Redknee and Microsoft announce joint converged billing CRM customers

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Redknee, a provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, has reported that, in just one year after revealing its partnership with Microsoft it has secured multiple billing transformation deals.

Announced at Mobile World Congress 2010, the alliance between Redknee and Microsoft Dynamics brought the first real-time expanded converged billing and customer care solution that enables operators to launch new services with fast time-to-market, improved business decision making through advanced reporting and analytics and lower total cost of ownership.

Operators have been impressed by the collaboration between the two leading solution providers, which has resulted in fast growing companies selecting Redknee’s Turnkey Converged Billing, with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, for their billing transformation projects. DST, a leading mobile operator based in APAC, is one of the latest operators to select Redknee to lead their transformation projects as they launch next generation services to their customers.

Idris T Vasi, CEO of DST Group commented: “We selected Redknee due to its strong capabilities in converged billing and customer care. As a leader in this space, we see our relationship with Redknee as a long term strategic partnership as we transform our networks and technologies.”

Lucas Skoczkowski, Redknee’s CEO commented: “We are pleased to be working operators, such as DST, as they embark on their transformation projects to support the launch of their next generation networks and services. Our partnership with Microsoft is growing and Redknee continues to increase its market share through its focus on real-time monetization solutions to support the growth of data content for wireless and fixed subscribers around the world.”

Doug Kennedy, vice president, Microsoft Dynamics Partners commented: “Service providers are increasingly looking to transform their operations and business models to deliver new services to market faster and at a lower cost. Microsoft Dynamics offers flexible and scalable solutions that partners such as Redknee can customize to enable service providers to reduce time to market for new offerings, improve the subscriber experience and ultimately monetize high-value services at a time of increased competitive pressures and tightening margins.”

MWC – Syniverse delivers world’s first fully-interoperable mobile video communications solution to Korea Telecom

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Syniverse Technologies announced today that Korea Telecom, said to be the country’s largest fixed-line operator and its second-largest mobile network operator, is deploying a new mobile video broadcast service that is interoperable across every 3G and 4G network and device, as well as PCs.

This solution allows any mobile user on any network around the globe the ability to receive a live video stream initiated by the mobile device of a KT subscriber –without requiring any new technology, software or application on the receiving mobile handset or PC. This unprecedented interoperability is delivered as part of KT’s new Show It offering and is enabled by Syniverse’s new white-label Mobile Video Broadcast Service for mobile operators, which completely eliminates the barriers that historically have existed for video communications services.

“Both consumers and the mobile industry have been readying themselves for mobile video communications for some time, but the key to unlocking widespread uptake is full-scale interoperability,” according to Tony Holcombe, President and CEO, Syniverse.

“Proprietary systems that only work within the walls of devices or networks have significantly limited the reach and adoption of mobile video communications, but research shows that consumers want ubiquitous video capabilities on their mobile devices as they look beyond communicating via voice, text, data, and photos,” Holcombe explained. “Our solution makes video communications available anywhere, anytime, regardless of network or device. Recipients don’t need any special downloads to view the video, and we perform on-the-fly dynamic transcoding to adapt screen resolution for each stream, optimizing performance for any network.”

KT began introducing the Show It service to smart phone subscribers in December 2010, giving them an unprecedented ability to share live, user-generated video broadcasts with anyone that has a data-enabled mobile device or an email address.

One of the primary benefits of the Syniverse Mobile Video Broadcast Service is that capturing and sharing a live stream with friends and family is as easy as sending a text message. For example, a KT subscriber can select the mobile phone numbers or email addresses of people to receive the live stream, just as one would normally select text message or email recipients. From there, a URL that connects recipients to the live video broadcast can be sent via SMS or email. Captured video also is archived temporarily to allow users to view it at a later time.

“There are strong indicators that consumers in some of the most technologically-advanced markets – such as South Korea and the United States – are looking for cross-screen video communication capabilities,” noted Mark Beccue, ABI Research. “The turning point for mass-market SMS and MMS adoption was when we achieved interoperability and consumers had the freedom to send and receive messages to and from anyone on any mobile network or device. For mobile video adoption to take off, we will need to see the same network-agnostic, device-agnostic interoperability.”

Syniverse President and CEO Tony Holcombe emphasized the company’s unique heritage of simplifying the complexity of disparate mobile network, roaming and messaging technologies to make mobile work.

“By bridging network, platform and device islands around the world, Syniverse made SMS work, anytime, anywhere. Then we did the same for MMS – in fact, our experts invented the industry’s first camera phone and sent the first MMS message,” Holcombe said. “Enabling interoperability for mobile video communications is a natural evolutionary move for us, and this broadcast solution is an important first step. As both one-way and two-way video become a go-to communications medium, Syniverse will be in our natural position at the center of it all, creating the connections to make it all work.”

MWC – Openwave and Amobee launch new mobile ad platform

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Openwave Systems, a global software specialist delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, today announced a collaboration arrangment with Amobee Media Systems, a global mobile advertising platform in which the parties intend to develop end-to-end advertising ecosystem solution for interested mobile operators. Openwave and Amobee intend to create this solution by combining Openwave’s Amplicity platform and Amobee’s carrier-grade mobile advertising platform.

“Mobile operators are looking for better ways to help advertisers understand total mobile user behaviour in order to deliver relevant ads to subscribers,” said Mark Strecker, COO, Amobee. “We believe that by integrating our mobile ad platform with Openwave’s Amplicity platform we can enhance our mobile ad platform and better enable mobile advertisers to effectively deliver advertisements based on a deeper understanding of usage behaviour that can ultimately drive the adoption of mobile advertising.”

Mobile advertisers benefit from the combination of Openwave’s Amplicity platform, which enables contextual data delivery, and Amobee’s platform, fostering seamless ad enablement. The joint solution will enable mobile operators to offer advertisements that are more relevant to the subscribers based on subscriber data. In addition, the joint solution will employ a complete end-to-end mobile advertising solution which will include a comprehensive set of mobile media services, enabling advertisers to manage brand building and seamlessly rollout highly-targeted mobile advertising campaigns.

“Openwave is pleased with our collaboration with Amobee and what it means to the entire advertising ecosystem,” said Dan Nguyen, vice president of product management, Openwave. “Operators are actively searching for ways to take part in the advertising value chain and properly leverage the contextual assets that their networks provide.  Through our collaboration with Amobee, we are hoping to arm the ecosystem with better response rates that create more measurable mobile ad campaigns.”

Openwave Amplicity is an operator-facing platform that helps enable developers to leverage operator network assets to rapidly develop and deploy applications, and to tap data that enhances applications for developers, improve advertising results for ad networks, and creates a more personalized experience for end users.

Underpinned by the most advanced technology in the space, Amobee’s Platform was built for mobile, with operators and media agencies both in mind. Catering for all mobile ad formats across all aspects of mobility including mobile web, SMS, in application, and video, advertisers and media owners have a plug and play solution to meet their business objectives on a global scale. Amobee works with dozens of the world’s leading mobile operators including Vodafone and Telefonica as well as premium publishers and developers to effectively manage their mobile advertising business.

MWC – Mavenir Systems’ converged messaging solution for LTE services chosen by MetroPCS

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Mavenir Systems, a global provider of mobile convergence solutions, today announced that it will provide LTE-based MMS and SMS services for MetroPCS Communications.

MetroPCS will implement Mavenir’s Converged Messaging solution on its new LTE network, allowing its 4G LTE customers to exchange multimedia and text messages with one another and other carrier networks. MetroPCS currently uses Mavenir’s Converged Messaging solution, launched in early 2010, as a cost-effective way for its CDMA network to support rapid growth in text message usage.

“By selecting Mavenir again to support its nationwide LTE services, MetroPCS joins a growing list of carriers that value our innovative IP messaging solutions,” said Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO of Mavenir. “Mavenir enables carriers such as MetroPCS to develop and deploy market differentiating, revenue-generating messaging services with reduced cost, risk and time to market. We look forward to continuing to work with MetroPCS.”

MWC – GSMA and Neustar to work with Twitter for real-time mobile communications delivery

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The GSMA and Neustar, a specialist in providing carriers and enterprises with solutions for sending calls, messages, and content across networks worldwide, today announced that they will work with Twitter to ensure subscribers can reliably access their Twitter stream in real-time – even when they change mobile operators – by using the GSMA PathFinder Service.

“Neustar is proud to work with the GSMA and Twitter to ensure that people around the world are able to connect to their social life as it happens,” said Steve Edwards, senior vice president, Carrier Services at Neustar. “Twitter is showing tremendous innovation and leadership by using Pathfinder as part of its reliable infrastructure for its network of users.”

Mobile access to Twitter is exploding along with the rapid adoption of smart phones. Consequently, connecting subscribers seamlessly and reliably to their individual Twitter account becomes more complex as users switch operators and geographic regions. PathFinder, a GSMA-managed service operated by Neustar, is a global registry of IP addresses and phone numbers which provides global network operators as well as application providers, like Twitter, with the means to reach all their users irrespective of their choice of network or technology. Through PathFinder, subscribers can get more dependable connectivity.

“We are proud to help Twitter route tweets to its extensive community across network and country boundaries with accuracy and efficiency,” said Adrian Dodd, Senior Director, Managed Services at the GSMA. “We are excited to see how PathFinder is being harnessed to extend mobile lifestyles, and working with Twitter demonstrates our ability to support communications delivered by an expanding range of innovative new businesses.”

“We expect rapid growth in the mobile social networking user base to continue, as well as the amount of time that people spend on such activities – currently averaging 37 minutes a day,” said Nick Holland, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group. “Consumers expect their services to move with them as they change network operators or handsets and services such as PathFinder are critical for enterprises creating brand loyalty through mobile social networking applications.”

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