Comverse, the supplier of value-added service solutions to mobile and fixed-line operators, and Portugal Telecon/Telefonica Moviles joint venture in Brazil, have demonstrated end-to-end multimedia messaging service (MMS) over a CDMA 1XRTT network.
The powerful bandwidth capabilities of the joint venture`s advanced CDMA 1XRTT network now provides subscribers with high-performance enhanced services. The demonstration featured the Comverse Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) and Comverse MMS BREW-based handset clients and showcases multimedia messages sent mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-e-mail, and application-to-mobile.
Luis Avelar, vice-president of IT at Portugal Telecom/Telefonica, said: "The capabilities of our CDMA 1XRTT network and MMS illustrates the value of the technology, including the ability to handle larger video clips and stream to the handset more efficiently.
"We look forward to offering our subscribers a full and gratifying MMS experience that includes both person-to-person messaging as well as rich and attractive content and applications.
"Speed and flexibility are important to us. Comverse is one of the leading messaging companies that offer its solution now. Comverse is one of the companies we have seen with a commercially available MMS BREW client," said Avelar.
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The Comverse Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) is a scalable telco-grade system, fully compliant with 3GPP MMS standards, for person-to-person as well as application-to-person messaging of rich multimedia content. It allows mobile device users to send and receive messages with a rich combination of media elements: text, image, sound and video.
Built on the eXtensible Messaging Framework (XMF) and based on components of the Comverse InSight Platform, the Comverse MMSC delivers advanced features and functionality on a configurable, open and flexible platform. The XMF technology enables the Comverse MMSC to be easily modified to support new innovative services and new technologies - without rewriting code or requiring downtime. Advanced multimedia transcoding and content adaptation technology solves interoperability challenges between MMS handsets, and also assures seamless interoperability between MMS and e-mail. Successfully deployed commercially throughout the world, the Comverse MMSC is the choice of more and more discerning service providers.
Portugal Telecom/Telefonica Moviles joint venture
The joint venture of Portugal Telecom/Telefonica Moviles consolidates the wireless operations of Telesp Celular (S~ao Paulo state), Global Telecom (Paran'a and Santa Catarina states), Tele Sudeste Celular (Rio de Janeiro and Esp'irito Santo states), CRT Celular (Rio Grande do Sul state) and Tele Leste Celular (Bahia and Sergipe states) - this new company, from now on, is the biggest wireless operator in Brazil and South America.
The agreement established among the operations of Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Moviles integrates the wireless Brazilian assets of both of them, majority CDMA, with the objective to consolidate the biggest and the best wireless operator in Latin America. The agreement to purchase TCO in January 2003 (Tele Centro Oeste Celular, 12 states, 3 million subscribers) adds more scalability to the business, ending up to JV a subscribers` base of more than 17 million clients, 50% of Brazilian market share, with coverage that represents approximately 80% of national GDP and 86% of national territory.
Comverse
Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc (NASDAQ: CMVT), is the world`s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services. More than 400 wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators, in more than 100 countries, have selected Comverse`s enhanced services systems and software, which enable the provision of revenue-generating value-added services including call answering with one-touch call return, short messaging services, IP-based unified messaging (voice, fax and e-mail in a single mailbox), 2.5G/3G multimedia messaging (MMS), instant communications, wireless information and entertainment services, voice-controlled dialling, messaging and browsing, prepaid wireless services, and additional personal communication services. Other Comverse Technology business units include: Verint Systems, a leading provider of analytic solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance, and enterprise business intelligence; and Ulticom, a leading provider of service enabling network software for wireless, wireline and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit the Comverse Web site at http://www.comverse.com.
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