Airtel Bangladesh has entered into a strategic partnership with Mobile solution provider ComViva to offer value-added short messaging services to mobile users in the country.

The agreement will allow Airtel, an arm of the Indian telecom major Bharti Telecom, with a single-window web-based system to access, create, execute and manage value-added services.

The new services will be provided to the consumers under Airtel’s unstructured supplementary service data (USSD), short message service (SMS) centre and bulk messaging gateway (BMG) portfolio.

According to Chris Tobit, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Airtel Bangladesh, at Airtel Bangladesh, the company is determined to provide best-in-class services and to continuously offer the best communication solutions to their businesses and individual customers.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MCTEL has been selected by the second largest mobile operator in Switzerland, Orange, for the deployment of its USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) browsing solutions on its network with an aim to deliver an attractive suite of services to its mobile customers.

An alternative to IVRs and Call Centres had been looked by Orange, as the number of subscribers’ increased, keeping cost-efficiency and satisfaction for its customers in mind. At last, MCTEL USSD solutions was selected to create the most convenient self-care solution for its pre and post-paid customers.

A reliable USSD platform has been provided by MCTEL besides developing a suite targeted services for the network’s subscribers. All relevant USSD services has been aggregated by the company into a single menu based service which is an easily configured USSD portal that gives access to different services in an easy and seamless manner.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Reliance user can now play games in their GSM handsets from high-end to the low-end ones, on the phone’s USSD platform. Reliance communication launched the service with the most popular games Tic Tac Toe also commonly known as Noughts and Crosses.

The game is known to be educational yet fun tool for teaching concepts of strategy. Player wins the game if he is successful in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row.

All GSM phones are capable of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and associated with instant messaging type phone services.

According to Reliance Communications, Head (VAS), Krishna Durba, the product is designed keeping in mind the evolving market dynamics.

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