Telecom software and services provider Telcordia Technologies announced a partnership with mobile content and applications provider mPortal, bolstering its hosted services for MVNOs with mPortal's Springboard content delivery manager platform and related content catalog. Promising its MVNO customers an efficient and cost-effective solution for launching mobile content services, Telcordia will also add mPortal's smart client, which resides on subscriber handsets to improve content access and discovery.
"The partnership with mPortal helps us broaden our hosted services offer," said Telcordia's executive director of global solutions marketing Patrick McCarthy in an interview with FierceMobileContent. "The more we can put in the tin, the easier it is for MVNOs to work with us."
Telcordia now boasts 13 hosted MVNO customers worldwide, delivering prepaid and post-paid mobile services. Its off-the-shelf content catalog includes ringtones, wallpapers and games, as well dynamic content like real-time news feeds. "With this partnership, we're reducing MVNO complexities by offering a single point of contact," mPortal founder and CEO DP Venkatesh told FMC. "From a provider perspective, we have the entire mobile content solution you need."
For more details:
- check out the release [1]
Related article:
- mPortal [2], Roundbox power TV Guide Mobile
Links:
[1] http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070423005494&newsLang=en
[2] http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/mportal-roundbox-power-tv-guide-mobile