MCTEL and one2many Team up to Offer Breakthrough Cell Broadcast Solution
DEVENTER, The Netherlands and MONACO, September 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
- Cell Broadcast Messages Enabled on all Handsets Including 3G Mobile Phones
MCTEL, the messaging and device management expert, and one2many, the world's leading cell broadcast company, announced they have formed a partnership to provide the latest generation of Cell Broadcast solutions, able to broadcast messages to all devices irrespective of whether they are set to display CB messages.
Cell broadcast (CB) technology offers a non-intrusive, real-time service of distributing text messages and binary content to mobile handsets, specific to their current location. CB is capable of broadcasting one single message to reach all mobile handsets in an area as small as one radio cell and as big as an entire country. Sending a message to millions of handsets takes a matter of seconds.
Traditionally Cell Broadcast messages are received by handsets which have CB activated and configured correctly. As configuration settings need to be performed on the handset rather than the SIM, manual intervention is required. For mobile users, manual configuration may not be intuitive acting as a barrier to activation. MCTEL's device & SIM management expertise provides an altogether more rewarding user experience and increases the penetration of the service overcoming this barrier.
Based on an in-depth knowledge of mobile handset behaviour, the MCTEL solution identifies handsets with the CB capability not activated as well as handsets that do not support CB messages. In the first case, MCTEL SIM OTA remotely manages the SIM card to activate the appropriate parameter, even on 3G mobile handsets that represent a growing part of today's mobile fleet. In the second case, the CB message is replaced by a SMS that is sent to the handsets that do not support CB messages. As a result, one2many Cell Broadcast Centre combined with MCTEL SIM management solution significantly increases the coverage rate of cell broadcast campaigns.
"By adding our device & SIM management to one2many's cell broadcast technology, we entered a new phase of development for CB." explains Dr Daniel Mavrakis, MCTEL CEO. "The solution enables operator settings control and ease of configuration. In addition we are now able to deliver CB campaigns to all the handsets attached to one or more cells on the network and even to those that do not support CB! This major improvement underlies further developments of cell broadcast services and the monetization of these services."
With immediate and widespread message broadcasting, CB technology is especially sought after for time-sensitive location-based services. Governments increasingly use CB for emergency alerts, whether they are related to natural hazards or security threats. In such cases, it is a vital necessity to instantly reach all mobile users located in a given area. For mobile operators, CB represents a unique opportunity to locally optimize the capacity utilization rate and to launch new revenue-generating services.
Enabling Cell Broadcast is key to the success of solutions such as Public Warning and Dynamic Billing. Collectively, One2Many and MCTEL are addressing the needs of solution providers and customers in this area and building on this expertise to provide more interactive services by cross-pollinating different message domains like Cell Broadcast and SMS, or USSD.
Maarten Mes, Managing Director of one2many comments: "We are excited that MCTEL has joined one2many's Technology Partnership program. This program fosters and supports bilateral research projects which have the potential for commercialization of CB services. MCTEL has addressed and found a solution for cell broadcast device & SIM management, supporting operators to maximise revenue from cell Broadcast commercial services"
The commercialization of MCTEL's Cell Broadcast Versatile Delivery will be jointly done by both companies. Several mobile operators are already interested in testing the solution on their network and perceive high revenue potential in this technology.
About MCTEL
Founded in 1992 by Dr Daniel Mavrakis, MCTEL is a private company owned by its managers with a minority share of the Principality of Monaco.
Combining carrier grade software with fully scalable platforms, MCTEL offers advanced solutions in:
- Advanced messaging: SMS Center, SMS Firewall, USSD Gateway,
Cell Broadcast Versatile Delivery
- Mobile Device management: Device Management Center, SIM OTA,
ADD, EIR, Marketing Analysis
- Value Added Services: Service Delivery Platform and
applications for VAS
- Roaming: Roaming Steering, Welcome to Roamers & Bon Voyage,
Inbound Roamers Retention
MCTEL has built-up a reputation and an unparalleled know-how in the fields of mobile services and value added services for mobile operators. MCTEL also operates its own International Aggregation Center with its own SMS Hub, SMS Centers, USSD Gateways, Content Delivery Gateway and VAS Connectivity Platform connected to the SS7 international signaling backbone.
With its offices in Monaco, France, Dubai and Singapore, MCTEL counts customers in over thirty countries worldwide. MCTEL is a member of OMA and GSMA.
About one2many
one2many established in 2007, is a management buyout of Acision's (formerly LogicaCMG Telecom Products) cell broadcast product unit, building on over a decade of experience in Cell Broadcast. With the spin-off one2many instantly became the world's market leader in cell broadcast with experience in excess of 80 installations, at 50 customers in more than 30 countries on all continents
one2many has close relationships with all network infrastructure companies, major SIM vendors, leading handset manufacturers and industry standard organisations, and has a unique combination of both theoretical background and practical field trial experience in CB public warning and Dynamic Discount. This has resulted in the most mature cell broadcast product in the market with its initial release development starting in 1996, and today has the most extensive BSC and RNC driver library in the market.
one2many has its headquarters in The Netherlands, Europe. Employees of one2many are currently based in offices in the Netherlands, Dubai UAE, Serbia and Toronto
one2many is an active member of standardisation committees such as ETSI, ATIS, 3GPP, TIA, and the Cell Broadcast Forum and CHORIST (EU project).
For more information visit http://www.one2many.eu
SOURCE one2many
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