MediaPlazza uses PSMS services by MATERNA to bring mobile content to the German market
Payment via PSMS Premium Service Number
Dortmund/Paris/Hanover, 10 March 2005
MediaPlazza, worldwide leader of wireless content on the Internet, connected to more than 120 carriers in more than 45 countries, giving access to 750 million cell phones with a range of more than 30 000 mobile products, now utilizes the PSMS numbers service management (Premium SMS) by MATERNA Information & Communications for order and payment of ringtones, logos and Java games download in Germany. The platform is operated in MATERNA´s data center, in Dortmund, Germany.
MediaPlazza’s customers send premium SMS messages to a series of PSMS numbers and order the desired content. This content is then delivered to MediaPlazza’s customers directly OTA or via MATERNA’s Wap-Push Proxy Gateway to the German networks.
At launch, MediaPlazza has made the MATERNA PSMS platform available to MediaPlazza’s customers in Germany in the respective national language. Other countries are to follow soon. Today, several PSMS numbers are in use at various end-user price levels. An innovative monthly-based subscription service will also shortly allow on-demand content provisioning. Alos, SMS and MMS –based applications will be soon be offered by MATERNA to MediaPlazza’s customers, using this PSMS order mechanism.
The PSMS order system by MATERNA is part of a comprehensive range of micro-payment solutions. This includes, besides Premium SMS and Premium MMS, the solution Anny Way Buy Mobile which can be used for both, billing of mobile services and payment of Internet contents. With MT (Mobile Terminated) Billing for SMS and MMS the comfortable payment of mobile subscription services is available. With all mobile payment methods offered by MATERNA the user identifies through his/her mobile number and immediately receives access to the desired content. The billing will afterwards be processed via the user´s mobile phone invoice and/or prepaid account.
MATERNA Information & Communications
MATERNA is a leading software company in the field of information and communication technology. The company employs worldwide 1.100 staff members and its turnover was estimated to more than 120 million Euros for the year 2004 (preliminary). Beside the head office in Dortmund, the company has offices and subsidiaries located all over Germany as well as in Austria, Belgium, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and USA. 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 net on base of SMS, MMS, WAP and Mobile Java which are distributed under the brand name Anny Way. The Anny Way Academy is active on the market in terms of trainings and consulting services as found in practice. In the Business Unit Information, MATERNA develops integrated IT solutions for process optimization involving companies and public administration. This includes the topic fields Portals, Information Management, Service and IT Infrastructure Management.
For further details, please contact :
MATERNA Information & Communications
Antje Krämer
antje.kraemer@materna.de
Phone +49 173 70 11 085
www.materna.comwww.annyway.com
MediaPlazza
MediaPlazza offers game publishers a safe world-wide distribution platform that makes their contents accessible to tens of millions of consumers each month.
Created in 2001, MediaPlazza offers a package of solutions related to the development of mobile technologies on the Internet. In less than 3 years, MediaPlazza built the first mobile content sales platform using the power of the Internet as a distribution channel. Today MediaPlazza can be found throughout the world and, through agreements with more than 120 telecom operators, it can offer the contents of its catalogue in nearly 50 countries. The network of MediaPlazza Internet sites, coupled with its partner sites, attracts an audience of 60 million unique visitors each month. As a result of this statistic, MediaPlazza has remained in the Top 400 of worldwide Internet audiences since the beginning of this year (where all site subject matter is combined).
For further details, please contact :
Alexandre Ehrhardt - General Managera.ehrhardt@mediaplazza.net
Phone +33 1 44 09 43 51www.mediaplazza.com
