Tango & MATERNA announce partnership
Dateline: 23 February 2004
MATERNA, a worldwide leader in wireless communications technology and service, and Tango Telecom, a leading provider of convergent charging solutions announce partnership for realtime prepaid MMS billing.The combined solution integrates MATERNA's Anny Way MMSC with the Tango Telecom Convergent Charging Node (CCN). By combining MATERNAs expertise in multimedia messaging technologies with Tango Telecoms experience in charging systems and prepaid integration, a comprehensive and efficient offer is now available to help customer’s launch powerful real-time prepaid billing for MMS.
Multimedia messaging is one of the most rapidly growing services in the mobile business today. With new handsets, enhanced features, more content and higher bandwidth available, the demand for sophisticated prepaid billing models is growing. The combined solution of MATERNA and Tango Telecom is designed to meet those requirements.
Richard Choi, Vice President Sales and Marketing stated, "We're delighted to work with MATERNA, a market-leader and innovator for MMS services". "Our combined solution allows operators to quickly launch real-time, fraud free prepaid MMS services, without the need for any changes to their existing IN prepaid systems. This means rapid new revenue and fast return on investment", he added.
"The partnership with Tango Telecom enables us to offer our customers a powerful one-stop solution for the emerging issue of real-time, prepaid MMS billing", said Peter Mros, MMS Product Manager at Materna. "The integration with Tango's CCN platform was one of the most efficient and fruitful projects as both partner's expertise complemented one another in a perfect way".
About MATERNA Information & Communications
MATERNA is a leading software compnay in the field of information and communication technology. The Business Unit Communications offers products and solutions from the business area Mobile Solutions and Unified Messaging. This includes in particular value-added services for mobile and fixed networks such as SMS, MMS, WAP and Mobile Java, which are distributed under the brand name Anny Way. The Anny Way Academy is active on the market for training and consultancy services.
For further details, please contact:
MATERNA Information & Communications
Antje Kraemer
antje.kraemer@materna.de
Phone: +49 173 70 11 085
www.materna.com, www.annyway.com
About Tango Telecom
Tango Telecom are a leading provider of Convergent Charging and Enhanced Messaging Solutions, enabling the rapid delivery of converged real-time SMS, GPRS, CDMA, MMS, PTT and Content services. Tango Solutions are extensible and include a complete suite of prepaid services for 2G, 2.5G and 3G network roll-outs. The system offers carrier-grade scalability and availability, is easy to install and upgrade and has proven interoperability with existing network components from all major vendors.
Based at the National Technology Park, Limerick, in Ireland, Tango's customers include Vodafone in Malta and LUXGSM in Luxembourg. Tango's products are available directly and through a global network of Systems Integration Partners, Resellers and OEMs.
For further information, contact:
Richard Choi
Vice President Sales & Marketing
T: +353 61 503 051
M: +353 87 682 8509
F: +353 61 338 065
www.tango.ie, www.tango-tele.com