MOBIVOX|PL Enables Incumbent Carriers and Large Communities To Quickly Monetize Resources with Market-Proven, Value-added Services
MONTRÉAL–September 24, 2008—Mobivox, the mobile VoIP services innovator that lowered the price and lessened the pain of international phone calling by connecting its subscribers to whomever they asked for by name, today announced MOBIVOX|PL, a voice-activated mobile services platform. MOBIVOX|PL is now available to the service-provider and online-community markets.
As the engine of the Mobivox consumer service, MOBIVOX|PL has been market tested by hundreds of thousands of users calling from worldwide voice networks, and speaking in multiple languages. Offering packaged, value-added, voice-activated services, it benefits carriers and large communities looking for ways to differentiate their services, or shift revenue models away from the sinking, commoditized market of calling minutes.
Mobivox’s founders include some of the earliest developers in the field of speech recognition, bringing with them a particular focus on voice-activated services for users in mobile environments. A product of that expertise, MOBIVOX|PL successfully recognizes spoken contact names out of uploaded or manually entered contact databases. End users have simply to say “Call John Thompson” or “Call the marketing group” from any mobile device or fixed-line phone.
Network-agnostic, the platform then either delivers the one-to-one or one-to-many call over Mobivox’s own network, or hands the call and routing information to the partner network for it to terminate.
A mobile user’s portable memory; a network-agnostic service
“Today, we are laying out a compelling voice-activated mobile services platform and technology that builds on our innovative, proven service offering: an optimized voice user interface that supports multiple languages; an always-available, hosted address book that serves as a mobile user’s ‘portable memory’; and a network-agnostic VoIP infrastructure for service creation that also includes, at the option of our partners, billing, fraud management and quality-based, least-cost call routing,” said Peter Diedrich, president and CEO of Mobivox.
"MOBIVOX|PL is truly distinctive through the sum of these parts. Early partner validation has already demonstrated its unique value proposition for service providers looking to grow and profit from the mobile telephony market.”
A voice-activated prototype application can be deployed for partners in a matter of weeks. The platform can deliver voice-activated services for any kind of voice carrier, running any kind of network, and to any end-user telephony device, wired or wireless. To date, among other services, the platform delivers easy-to-use voice-activated dialing and call control, group calling and voice-to-SMS and voice-to-email messaging.
JAJAH, the popular VoIP service provider, selected MOBIVOX|PL this past August to power JAJAH Concierge, a JAJAH-branded, voice-activated suite of services.
“We are delighted to offer JAJAH customers a new premium service developed on Mobivox’s voice application platform,” said Trevor Healy, JAJAH CEO. “It bolts Mobivox’s core strength in voice interface and effortless calling to our strength in managed services.”
To online communities such as social and business networking sites, which have no network of their own but typically do have stores of contact information, MOBIVOX|PL represents an opportunity to monetize the investment in their user relationships by offering own-brand voice services.
Going beyond minutes
“In launching this platform, Mobivox presents a way for carriers to leverage their existing resources,” said Jon Arnold, independent VoIP analyst and principal, Jon Arnold & Associates, “without adding any capital expense or—equally important—appreciable user effort. There is no need, for example, for subscribers to ‘train’ recognizers to their individual voices, as we’ve seen with other voice-dial roll-outs. Subscribers merely register the names and numbers of their contacts—if the information isn’t already uploaded—and speak their names to call them. Compared with all the numbers you’d need to make international calls, in particular, this is a great convenience—as well as a cost saving.”
MOBIVOX|PL is available to partners globally today. More information on the platform and the partner offer, from service creation to deployment, is available at http://blog.mobivoxpl.com.
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About Mobivox
Mobivox provides its partners and customers with innovative, voice-activated access to a host of Mobile VoIP services and applications, including world-wide calling, group communication and voice-to-text services. No complex PIN numbers or software downloads are required. Its voice-activated mobile services platform, MOBIVOX|PL, seamlessly combines an optimized voice user interface, rich 'in-the-cloud' contact storage, and a comprehensive, network-agnostic telephony infrastructure. Carriers and communities alike rebrand and resell these services as a way to quickly differentiate their offerings and leverage existing investments in contact or customer databases and proprietary networks. The company is privately held and headquartered in Montréal.
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