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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
TMN Launches Openwave-Powered Video Portal And Video Voicemail
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 13 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV - News), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that TMN, Portugal's largest mobile operator, is launching video portal and integrated voice and video mail services for its 3G subscribers with Openwave's video messaging solution. In conjunction with Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group, the deployment enables TMN's 3G service subscribers to view and purchase video content as well as send, receive, store and manage voice and video messages in an intuitive and transparent fashion, helping to drive service growth across TMN's UMTS network.
By deploying a fully integrated service offering with a better user experience, TMN expects to increase traffic and improve customer satisfaction with their messaging and content services. Integrated by long-standing Openwave partner Siemens, TMN becomes one of the first operators worldwide to launch these advanced services, which are based on the Openwave Video Messaging solution, an all IP-based content management and Mx infrastructure designed around the Voice XML standard.
Built on Openwave's proven, scalable and flexible Mx Messaging Platform, Openwave Video Messaging offers operators next generation messaging services via an open and proven horizontal architecture. TMN will benefit from significant cost efficiencies and rapid service creation as voice mail, video mail and video portal services are all delivered using the same consolidated infrastructure, featuring shared components such as the directory and MIME object store.
Siemens supplies an end-to-end video mail solution to TMN, and contributes to the successful enrichment of video mail, by integrating the solution in TMN's network. Siemens assures that this solution works not only from a network perspective but also for all the TMN`s 3G subscribers seamlessly. Siemens is instrumental in the integration and deployment of this solution, providing valuable expertise with terminals, network infrastructure, billing, provisioning and interoperability.
This implementation is an important milestone in Openwave's drive towards open, standards-based messaging systems. By replacing today's typically fragmented legacy infrastructure messaging components with a simple, integrated and horizontally layered IP-based platform, operators like TMN can benefit from the highest levels of reliability, rapid service evolution, ease of management and significantly reduced cost of ownership.
Said Rich Wong, general manager of messaging, Openwave: "We're delighted to be working with Siemens and TMN to introduce a crucial 3G application to a key European market for the first time, and to deliver one of the industry's first truly integrated messaging deployments. With years of experience at the forefront of IP messaging, Openwave was the first company to build a voice and video messaging platform based on the flexible Voice XML standard. We remain committed to making products that help our customers deliver innovative and easy to use services as simply and cost-effectively as possible."
Fernando Rodrigues, general manager of corporate business at TMN, added: "We are very pleased to further strengthen our relationship with Openwave and Siemens with this groundbreaking deployment. TMN has a history of leading the mobile market in Portugal with attractive, advanced services. This deployment will enable us not only to launch a new and appealing 3G service but also to benefit from the reliability and efficiency of a single platform for multiple messaging services."
"With approximately 5 million users TMN holds a very strong GSM market position in Portugal," said Christoph Caselitz, President of Networks within Siemens mobile. "With the installation of an innovative 3G/UMTS video service we are confident to support TMN also to extend their leading position in the 3G/UMTS market field."
TMN, an official sponsor of the Euro 2004 soccer championships being held in Portugal this June, was the first operator to offer 3G videocall services in Portugal, with its UMTS network covering all of the tournament's host cities.
About TMN
Created in March 1991, TMN is a subsidiary of the Portugal Telecom Group and the leading mobile telecommunications provider in Portugal, with a market share of over 50 percent in a three mobile operator's scenario. Investing on the ongoing diversification of solutions tailored to individual and professional needs, TMN makes technological innovation and orientation towards the client drive its overall activity.
About Siemens Mobile
The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group is one of the world's leading full-line suppliers in the field of mobile communication, offering mobile phones, cordless phones, wireless modules and mobile infrastructure (technology) including radio and switching components, enabling services and applications, consulting services and systems integration. The mobile communication arm of Siemens AG markets products and services in more than 120 countries, generating sales of 10 billion with a workforce of some 26,900 people in fiscal 2003 (September 30). Siemens mobile is the world market leader in prepaid solutions and digital cordless phones. More: www.siemens-mobile.com/press
About Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.
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