Telefonica Moviles Espana Select Openwave's Adaptive Messaging Solution
Openwave's Newest Adaptive Messaging Service Addresses Consumer Demand for Richer, Simplified Communication Experience
LOS ANGELES, CTIA IT & ENTERTAINMENT, Sept. 12 // -- Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Telefonica Moviles Espana, one of the world's leading mobile telecommunications companies, has selected a mobile email service based on Openwave's IP-based Adaptive Messaging platform. With the new messaging service, Telefonica subscribers can receive real-time advanced email alerts from multiple existing email accounts, and fully manage their mailboxes from any mobile phone.
According to Alfonso Perea, Director for Messaging Services at Telefonica Moviles Espana, the next generation of messaging services holds tremendous potential, both from a revenue and innovation perspective. "Our continued market leadership is predicated upon us being able to rapidly offer our customers the most engaging and intuitive communication experiences possible. By teaming with Openwave we are able to offer converged adaptive messaging services that will help us to reduce churn, boost adoption and increase average revenue per user, both now and in the future. Our subscribers gain true benefits from our rich and intuitive mobile messaging service, thus dramatically decreasing their incentive for switching between carriers.
"By selecting Openwave's adaptive messaging solution to implement its mobile email service, Telefonica Moviles benefits from a solution that uses the native client with no additional downloads required. This enables operators to reach the broadest range of handsets in their installed base, offering their subscribers seamless message access from a single inbox regardless of whether the message is in SMS, MMS or email form.
Openwave's mobile email service, now available to Telefonica subscribers, offers the following features and benefits:
o Converged solution -- receive email notifications and fully manage email via mobile handset or PC
o Intuitive user experience -- Single Inbox for SMS, MMS and email
o Simple to use -- emails and alerts pushed to the user's existing mobile phone with access to messages as easy as making a phone call
o Branded webmail -- email alerts display a Telefonica look and feel
o The ability to listen to email messages using a telephone
o Aggregated message receipt and management for non carrier-owned messages
o Self care interface allows users to set up their personal preferences, like filters for mobile email
"When Telefonica came to us to implement a consolidated, flexible infrastructure to enable the rapid launch of new voice and data messaging services, we knew our Adaptive Messaging Platform would meet their needs," said Peter Galvin, senior vice president, products and solutions group, Openwave. "With Openwave, Telefonica has a dedicated collaborator to launch converged services integrated across their entire portfolio of offerings."
Openwave is a leader in the industry with its IP-based messaging framework; its suite of IP-based messaging products and solutions are designed to address communication service providers' needs for a new class of adaptive messaging services that help them address convergence across landline, mobile and broadband networks.
Openwave's messaging, location, browsing and content services span networks and devices. Today, Openwave software is used by more than 100 mobile operators, broadband providers and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to enable access to data services for more than 500 million consumers around the world.
About Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. is a leading independent provider of open software solutions for the communications and media industry. Openwave software solutions are designed to enable customers to accelerate ARPU by rapidly launching value-added communication, information and entertainment services across networks and devices, and comprise a broad range of solutions including content delivery, messaging, music, video, and location. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.
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