AIRCOM International, the leading independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, today announced that it has signed a deal to provide its suite of market-leading network planning tools to Atlantique Telecom, the West African subsidiary of UAE-based telecoms group Etisalat International which operates networks in six countries across West Africa.

Atlantique Telecom operates EDGE mobile networks under the “Moov” brand in the Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, the Central African Republic, Gabon and Niger. Under the terms of the agreement, Atlantique Telecom will purchase AIRCOM’s suite of planning tools –including its market-leading software products ASSET, ILSA and CONNECT – to improve the performance of individual networks by optimising each one’s RF and transmission plans. This will deliver better coverage levels and improved capacity across each network, delivering an enhanced quality of service to Moov customers.

Read more: Atlantique Telecom chooses AIRCOM for EDGE planning in West Africa

New end-to-end service will enable rapid generation of fresh revenue streams and media campaigns for operators and advertising sector

Barcelona, 16 February, 2009 – Jinny Software (Stand 2B06 Hall 2), a leading global supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, today launches a fully-managed Mobile Marketing & Advertising Service at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The primary business model for Jinny’s new Mobile Marketing & Advertising Service is to provide advertising from the agencies to the operator as a managed service and to share the revenue earned from advertising with the operator.

Read more: Jinny Launches Fully-Managed Mobile Marketing and Advertising Service

Global roaming sim card provider WorldSIM has swept the Business Travel Show Innovation Awards 2009. WorldSIM won the Awards in the category of Best Traveller Services provider as well as clinching the coveted Gold Award for Innovation, which is awarded to the company who polls the most votes overall.

WorldSIM's global sim card allows travellers to receive calls for FREE on their mobile phones when they travel and make outbound calls at a fraction of the cost of normal operators.

Read more: Telecoms company WorldSIM wins double travel award

BARCELONA, Mobile World Congress, 16 February 2009NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today announced that it has worked with Telecom Italia to launch TIM I'M, a new service that enables Telecom Italia’s 35.3 million customers to communicate in more innovative and efficient ways through a presence-enabled communications contact list. NeuStar delivers mobile IM services to all major operators in Italy: Vodafone Italy, 3 Italy, WIND and Telecom Italia.

 

The TIM I’M service is a mobile phone application that provides detailed presence information about friends and contacts. Users can see which of their contacts are available and how they would like to communicate – be it via Instant Messaging, SMS, MMS or voice – all from one integrated application on the phone. Users can choose who to communicate with, and just as importantly, how to communicate with them.

Read more: NeuStar Launches First “Presence-Enabled Communications Contacts List” Service

The Streamezzo Rich Media Client is now available on the full range of Sony-Ericsson devices

Mobile World Congress 2008 (Hall 7, Stand 7C18) – Barcelona, Spain – 16 February, 2009 - Streamezzo today announced that its Rich Media Client (RMC), the rendering client and core technology behind Streamezzo Mobile Open Development Platform, is available for the XPERIA™ X1, latest Sony Ericsson multimedia convergence phone.

With Windows Mobile® inside, the XPERIA™ X1 combines a 3-inch clear wide VGA display, a touch screen and a full arc slider QWERTY keyboard. This device is also featuring best in class HSUPA technology which allows it to expose record performance when data connection is used.

Read more: Streamezzo Rich Media Client is fully compatible with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1