|
Newsletters
|
|
|
|
|
|
WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
MAP Telecom Supports Global Skype Voice Services Program
MONACO, September 8 -- MAP Telecom, a European VoiceXML
hosting company headquartered in Monaco, is helping Skype enable application
developers and content providers create new revenue streams by offering their
voice services to the global Skype community of more than 52 million users.
Innovative voice services can be developed on Voxbuilder and then made
available to Skype's millions of callers in over 200 countries.
Voxbuilder (http://www.voxbuilder.com), hosted by MAP Telecom, is the online
window to Voxpilot's VoiceXML 2.0 compliant Open Media Platform. It offers
developers speech support for 15 languages and other online resources to
create user-friendly voice services such as news, voice auctioning,
entertainment services and much more. Successful voices services can be
launched in MAP Telecom's carrier-grade hosting environment.
"We are very excited about the new Skype program" explains Dr. Jon
Alcantara, COO of MAP Telecom. "Developers from all over the world are now
able to use Voxbuilder through Skype and create innovative voices services.
We are confident that many exciting services will be created this way, and
hope that many of them will launch on our platform. The Skype Voice Services
Program will give a boost to the whole voice industry, and will further
establish VoiceXML as the prevailing standard for creating telephony service."
"Skype has driven a revolution in personal communications by popularizing
free Internet phone calls. We are committed to opening the endless
possibilities for voice by creating a marketplace for our thriving ecosystem
of partners and developers to make it easy for their innovative services to
be available to our millions of callers worldwide," said Niklas Zennstrom,
CEO and Co-founder of Skype. "We challenge the world's most creative content
providers to work with us and our partners such as MAP Telecom to develop
these new and exciting forms of Internet voice services."
Interested content providers can access more information on Skype's Voice
Services Program at http://www.skype.com/partners/voice/, where they will
also find links to its partner platforms.
About MAP Telecom
MAP Telecom, the exclusive voice hosting activity of Monaco Telecom,
offers secure and cost-effective hosting of IVR applications in Europe and
beyond on the public telephone network as well as over Skype. The online
service creation environment Voxbuilder (http://www.voxbuilder.com) allows
developers and application owners to build and manage multiple voice services
on the VoiceXML 2.0 compliant platform from Voxpilot, located in a secure and
fully redundant hosting environment. The offering is completed by a range of
solutions specifically aimed at developers. Customers of MAP Telecom include
Ericsson, Assurland, ICQ, Cofiroute and VoiceObjects. For further
information, please go to http://www.map-telecom.com.
About Skype
Skype, the Global Internet Communications Company(TM), allows people
everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its
award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X,
and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 27 languages and is the
fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in
August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 160 million times in 225
countries and territories. Over 52 million people registered to use Skype's
free services, with over 3 million simultaneous users. Skype has more than 2
million premium customers, with over 12 billion minutes served. Skype
Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices
in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top
tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture
Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital
Partners. http://www.skype.com
|
|
|
