Next Generation Services Now

Telenity and VoiceAge enable wireless delivery of content-rich multimedia services

February 23, 2004 - Content is the killer app as wireless handsets morph into micro-computers with the kind of memory you had in your desktop just a few years ago, and users now demand the same multimedia services on their cell phones as they get at their desktop PCs.

Monroe, CT and Montreal, Canada, February 23, 2004 – Telenity, a leading provider of IP-based service platforms to the wireless industry, and VoiceAge, a leading provider of technology for multimedia messaging and content, today announced the integration of Telenity's Canvas Multimedia Message Service Center and VoiceAge's SPOT xde® Server. 

Content-based messaging drives the multimedia market.  The Telenity and VoiceAge alliance supports Open Mobile Alliance standards, and moves these specifications into the next generation with support of more formats and sophisticated content management for GSM and CDMA networks. This means subscribers can access and use multimedia messages and content services as easily on their handsets as on their desktop PC.

“When we're talking about next generation messaging we're really talking about content, and how to give users the same wireless experience with multimedia services that they take for granted when on their desktop PCs,” says Laurent Amar, president of VoiceAge. “We're making it practical and affordable for network operators to quickly expand their MMS service offerings by optimizing multimedia files for the receiving device.  Operators can just as aggressively brand those offerings to protect their revenue growth.”

“For network operators, choosing the right technology is important to ensure that MMS messages move crisply and cleanly across different networks. The moment network operators can leverage multimedia messaging with multimodality, location-based and content services, they not only increase revenue, but also lower churn and raise ARPU,” says Bekir Serbet, president and CEO at Telenity. “Just as significantly, operators can far more easily introduce business models that now include the enhanced network infrastructure, new services and content to enrich the end user experience.”

About Telenity
Telenity, a privately-held company, is the wireless industry's IP-based service platform performance leader. Telenity provides a portfolio of open, integrated and interoperable multimedia messaging and location services enhanced by content management and effortless service creation capabilities. To learn more about Telenity, visit us online at http://www.telenity.com, and also download the 8-page Canvas special supplement, “The Best of Both Worlds”.  To learn more about Telenity's Canvas Multimedia Message Service Center, click here.

Telenity and Canvas are registered trademarks of Telenity Inc.

About VoiceAge
To create SPOT xde® Server, VoiceAge Corporation's research and development team built on a decade of experience and proven success in audio and multimedia compression and transcoding.  As experienced daily by hundreds of millions worldwide, VoiceAge's standard and proprietary solutions, built on world-renowned ACELP® technology (the foundation for AMR) ensure an unsurpassed multimedia experience. The VoiceAge team holds over 300 patents and has won close to 20 international telecommunications standard competitions. http://www.voiceage.com

VoiceAge, SPOT xde and ACELP are registered trademarks of VoiceAge Corporation. 


Contacts:
Didem Karabatur
Telenity
+1.203.445.2019
Didem.Karabatur@telenity.com 		Nathalie Beaudoin
VoiceAge Corporation
nathalie.beaudoin@voiceage.com
+1 (514) 737.4940 ext. 232