Vodafone UK wins five new contracts for Vodafone One
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Five new contracts have been won by Vodafone UK for the Vodafone One unified communications service. The contract is worth around GBP 10 million and has been hailed as a ‘significant win’ from a rival network operator.
Vodafone now boasts of six major corporate contracts for the service and the list includes McLaren F1 team, a major bank and a leading construction company. Three more corporate contracts are expected to be signed by the company by March.
100,000 iPhones sold by Vodafone UK within a month of its launch
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: It’s not even a month when Vodafone UK introduced its iPhones in the market on January 14; the operator already claims to have sold over 100,000 handsets. The sale came even after the extra focus of the company on the business markets than its rivals.
Vodafone’s extensive and reliable 3G network infrastructure to support the deployment of business mission-critical apps in the field has been highlighted as a major reason behind the good performance of the company. Besides, a large number of available apps and the touch-based user interface as key features have also made iPhone attractive to business users.
According to Vodafone UK’s enterprise director Peter Kelly, iPhone works well with Vodafone One and Vodafone One Net unified communications services, which are targeted at enterprise and SMB customers respectively.
Vodafone’s iPhone pitched in for enterprises
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a bid to strengthen its position in the enterprise market, Vodafone has revealed its plan to drive iPhone uptake among its corporate customers. Smartphones capable of supporting email and Web-based applications alongside voice and messaging will be offered to drive Vodafone’s unified communications (UC) services.
Currently, a full UC service known as Vodafone One is offered by the company. In September 2009, BT Wholesale and Vodafone entered into partnership to launch Vodafone One Net, a hosted fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) offering in the U.K.
According to Peter Kelly, enterprise director of Vodafone UK, the company’s mobile voice, email and data services have enabled it to establish a strong position in the enterprise market, but now Vodafone’s enterprise customers are beginning to demand more
Vodafone Fiji Chooses Intervoice to Upgrade its Pre-paid Platform
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intervoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: INTV), a world leader in converged voice and data solutions, has announced that Vodafone Fiji has chosen to upgrade its existing pre-paid platform to Intervoice‘s Intelligent Network (IN). The new contract will provide additional capacity to accommodate expected growth in the operator‘s prepaid subscriber base and enable Vodafone Fiji to support a wider range of prepaid services. The contract was awarded during the Company‘s second fiscal quarter that ended August 31, 2006, following a competitive tender with leading IN vendors. The Intervoice upgrade is the latest in the successful partnership with Vodafone Fiji that started in 1999. Vodafone Fiji has placed more than US$10M in orders with Intervoice in the last seven years.
Vodafone Fiji chose the Intervoice IN platform for three main reasons. First, it was chosen because of its ease of migration, its ability to reuse the existing network infrastructure to support future Value Added Service (VAS) developments and its proven track-record delivering projects on time. Second, Intervoice could commit to delivering the Vodafone Fiji upgrade by 25 December 2006 to accommodate the anticipated 30% growth in its prepaid subscriber base expected from the year-end holiday shopping season. Third, Intervoice‘s IN platform will enable Vodafone Fiji to offer its prepaid customers outbound international roaming across any network for the first time, using CAMEL signalling.
The projected growth is due to recent initiatives, such as considerable radio coverage extension, increased network switching capacity and new and innovative value added services. As Fiji‘s sole mobile provider, Vodafone Fiji is responsible for providing accessible, sophisticated mobile services to its geographically widespread population of just over 800,000.
We are committed to keeping Fiji‘s mobile telecommunications offering on par with the rest of the world. By extending our capacity with Intervoice, we are able to accommodate the upsurge in our subscription base and ensure that the quality of service does not drop during peak hours,??? said Aslam Khan, CEO at Vodafone Fiji. Intervoice continues to support our existing and future capacity and service requirements, which is critical for us to support our evolving subscription base.???
Intervoice is also providing a turnkey Wholesale Peer-to-Peer Top-up solution for Vodafone Fiji. The new solution will enable Vodafone to white label its top-up vouchers to wholesalers and retailers and give wholesalers the opportunity to specify a range of different top-up plans, increasing competition and choice for consumers. The current prepaid service offers limited price plans and scratch card top-up vouchers for their subscribers. With the proposed new plan, SMS top-up vouchers will complement the existing scratch card top-ups. This system will reduce costs and provide additional security against fraud.
Vodafone Fiji has been extremely committed to improving the quality and grade of its network,??? said Frank Sherlock, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Intervoice International. Vodafone Fiji has a forward-looking attitude and the alignment of technology to support future capacity and service requirements will enable Vodafone Fiji to continue to show its commitment to meet its evolving customer needs.???
About Vodafone Fiji
In 1994, Vodafone opened its network to Fiji with just over 500 customers. Today there are over 250,000 customers enjoying a service from a company that has proven to be the leading innovators in mobile communications and technology. Vodafone Fiji’s growth continues to be staggering and the company is now recognised as one of Fiji’s corporate leaders, assisting the people and communities of Fiji in bringing the world of mobility to life. This has been achievable through the Vodafone One global network providing outstanding support, coverage and service to many countries across every continent around the world.
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