| Convergys Supporting SmarTone's 3G Enabled Service Offerings in Hong Kong |
| 31st
March , 2005 ( see
below for all today's 3G news ) |
| US : Convergys Corporation announced its Infinys (TM) Rating and Billing software has "gone live" for Hong Kong mobile network operator, SmarTone (SEHK:0315). Convergys worked with LogicaCMG to complete the implementation of Infinys, which is supporting the rollout of SmarTone's 3G enabled service offerings.
"We are impressed by Infinys' comprehensive and highly configurable functions and features, which help us in rapid implementation of the software. The rich set of application program interfaces Infinys offers helps the software to integrate well with SmarTone's operation environment. Infinys' ease of integration has enabled SmarTone to quickly bring our 3G enabled service offerings to the market," said Stephen Chau, Chief Technology Officer of SmarTone. "In addition, the billing and rating flexibility of Infinys enables SmarTone to creatively offer a suite of differentiated data and multimedia service." "This implementation gave Convergys an opportunity to work with an innovative industry leader like SmarTone and enables our Infinys software to play a significant role in the proliferation of 3G enabled services in the Asia Pacific region," said Steve Robertson, President, Convergys' Information Management Group, International. "With Infinys, SmarTone has the billing and rating flexibility necessary to stay ahead of its competition by being able to offer its customers the newest and most creative mobile content services." With its Infinys software, Convergys leads the communications industry in the deployment of real-time convergent billing -- including its Quadruple Play (TM) of video, voice, data, and wireless -- for cable, wireless, satellite, and wireline service providers around the world. Convergys combines its award-winning Infinys software, broad portfolio of professional and consulting services, and deep technical and operational expertise to solve clients' complex BSS and CRM business problems. Convergys is outthinking and outdoing on behalf of its clients every day. |
| Today's
3G News |
Orange
has launched technical and marketing trials of UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) targeting
the enterprise market in Lille, France with equipment supplied by IPWireless,
the companies announced today. |
SUNDAY
Communications announced its annual result for the 2004 financial year,
reporting a net profit of HK$6 million after deduction of HK$43 million
in 3G costs, and its intention to launch 3G services in the second quarter
of 2005. |
Wireless
Valley Communications, a pioneering developer of innovative software
solutions for wireless network design and management, today announced
that it has enhanced its SitePlanner(R) and EnterprisePlanner(TM) products
to support broader and more powerful design and analysis of CDMA networks. |
PacificNet Inc., a leading provider of value-added telecom services
(VAS) in China, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement
to acquire a 51% controlling interest in Guangzhou 3G Information Technology
Co., Ltd. |
Following
the lead of CSL, mobile operators worldwide are deploying the Helix
Universal Mobile platform to help bridge the speed gaps between 3G,
Edge and GPRS data networks. |
Convergys
Corporation announced its Infinys (TM) Rating and Billing software has
"gone live" for Hong Kong mobile network operator, SmarTone
(SEHK:0315). |
Hong
Kong CSL, (CSL), and RealNetworks announced availability of Asia's first
mobile media service enabling customers to watch On Demand video while
transparently switching between CSL's GPRS (2.5G), EDGE (2.75G) and
new UMTS (3G) data networks. |
Convergys
Corporation announced its Infinys (TM) Rating and Billing software has
"gone live" for Hong Kong mobile network operator, SmarTone
(SEHK:0315). Convergys worked with LogicaCMG to complete the implementation
of Infinys, which is supporting the rollout of SmarTone's 3G enabled
service offerings. |
This
new software is for use with the SH-MobileV2 (type name: SH7310) and
SH-Mobile3 (type name: SH73180) incorporating an MPEG-4*3 full hardware
accelerator, and offers the following features. |
Samsung Electronics introduces its first “file viewer” phones
(model name: SPH-V6500, SCH-V650) that allow users to view document
and image files over the mobile phone. |
Telstra
Mobile Broadband data plans are proving a big hit in the 3G business
market with the customer base growing at nearly 50 per cent month-on-month
since launch in November 2004. |
ALLTEL
wireless customers in Tampa, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, now can download
large, graphic rich files and streaming audio from the Internet to their
laptops through the company's new wireless broadband network. |
Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) senior vice president and general manager
of its Wireless Terminals Business Unit, detailed in a Tokyo press conference
today how TI's 3G technology is being widely adopted worldwide. |
Vidiator announced that its VeeStream(TM) platform enabled 3 Sweden
to launch the live broadcast Big Brother reality TV show. |
Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced its family of 4 mm by 4 mm
power amplifier (PA) modules featuring CoolPAM technology. |
The
advertising and marketing blitz that preceded Christmas 2004 made it
clear in no uncertain terms that consumer 3G services have well and
truly arrived in the UK. |
Release
3.0 of DNA provides support for ISUP terminal and monitoring (including
China), ISUP signaling to initiate and receive calls, and ISUP based
trigger for traffic monitoring. |
PacketVideo
today announced that a new handset from Fujitsu Limited incorporates
PacketVideo's pvPlayer™ multimedia software for high-quality video
and audio playback. |
It was a suitably glamorous affair held in London and Motorola collected
not one, but two of the coveted awards, the only company to do so on
the evening at the mobile phone industry’s most prestigious award
show, the Mobile News Awards 2005. |

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