Harrison to Aid Oxygen8 Growth Plans
The global micro-billing, communications and mobile enablement firm, Oxygen8 Communication has appointed James Harrison as UK Sales Manager, as part of the company’s strategy to grow its business activities by 60% over the next two years. Harrison will be looking after the sales and business development strategy of Oxygen8.
According to Harrison, customers like the fact that they can come to Oxygen8 for a full range of end-to-end services, including sales, account management, support, technical assistance and compliance advice. In his opinion, the breadth and scope of the company offering means that they are ideally positioned to help companies exploit the potential of mobile, web and voice services in order to generate new revenues and improve customer engagement.
Before this, Harrson served as National Sales Manager at Mainline Digital Communications, the UK’s largest distributor of Orange mobile phones in the B2B sector.
France Telecom to launch hybrid mobile/fixed handsets
The new “Unik” phones will operate as usual on the Orange mobile network, but when a client is at home, the phone will connect automatically to the fixed residential line via a WiFi link. This is similar to what BT launched in the UK earlier this year.
The service requires the Livebox broadband decoder from France Telecom, and will cost an additional 10-15 eur per month for Orange subscribers.
An estimated 30 pct of mobile calls are made from the home, and France Telecom hopes that 15 pct of its Orange clients will sign up for the service by the end of 2008.
The “Unik” handsets will be built by Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung, and will have an average sale price of about 100 eur.
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