MediaPlazza uses IVR order system by MATERNA to bring mobile content to the international market
Payment via IVR 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 IVR order system (Interactive Voice Response) by MATERNA Information & Communications for international order and payment of ringtones, logos and Java games download. The platform is operated in MATERNA´s data center, in Dortmund, Germany.
MediaPlazza’s customers dial in through a national premium service number to order the desired content via IVR. The selection of logos, ringtones, pictures, etc. is provided by a Voice User Interface (VUI). The VUI also ensures that the user remains in the system long enough for allowing content payment.
At launch, MediaPlazza has made the MATERNA operated IVR system available to MediaPlazza’s customers in 10 countries Austria, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and Switzerland in the respective national language. Other countries are to follow soon. MATERNA also provides some IVR premium service numbers to MediaPlazza, in Germany and in Switzerland.
The IVR order system by MATERNA is part of the Voice Service Platform developed by the Dortmund-based telecommunications specialist. This platform can be flexibly integrated into existing environments and connected with available applications, i. e. via VoiceXML, http, SMTP or SQL interfaces to enable data access via a speech interface to the user. The telephone network is connected via ISDN, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or over the telecom network operator´s signaling protocol “SS7“. The Voice Service Platform can be seen as a universally usable and configurable interface between public telephone and data networks. This solution can be supplied by MATERNA either as managed service or as an on-site delivered turnkey solution.
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.com
www.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 Manager
a.ehrhardt@mediaplazza.net
Phone +33 1 44 09 43 51
www.mediaplazza.com
