The European Computer Telecoms Group (ECT) wins Major Tender for Virtual PBX Service

Munich, March 4, 2009 – After a highly competitive tender, one of Europe’s leading mobile carriers has selected the ECT Mobile Office as the basis for a new virtual PBX service. The new service will allow small and medium-sized businesses to avoid a superfluous combination of fixed, cordless, and mobile telephones. Instead, each employee has just one mobile phone, one phone number, one voicemail and one phone book. Calls to other employees within the company are processed as internal calls via a dedicated GSM network realized on the basis of local access points. All the classical features of a fixed-line telephone system, such as a switchboard, call forwarding, conferencing, hunting groups, call pickup groups, executive-secretary groups, etc. are available in the network and can be configured via an easy-to-use web portal in the Intenet. The new service will be launched later this year and is planned for several European countries.
With the service application ECT Mobile Office, mobile operators offer the costs advantages and features of fixed-line phone systems to highly lucrative business customers – and that’s in addition to all other benefits of mobile telephony. “Today, the telephone systems used by most businesses are as complex and outdated as the tangle of wires beneath the desks of their employees,” says Carlos Branco, product manager for the ECT Mobile Office. “Now each employee can use one standard mobile telephone for all his/her communications needs – without having to give up the features of a fixed-line telephone system: you use one and the same mobile with complete freedom of movement within and outside of the office. Given all the advantages of this new service, we expect it to hit the market with a big bang and are doing everything in our power to ensure the success of our customer.”

About the European Computer Telecoms Group (ECT)
European Computer Telecoms (ECT) is a leading provider of value-added services based on the INtellECT® Next-Generation Intelligent Network and Service Delivery Platform.
Our mission is to enable our customers, the network providers, to make money the old-fashion way – by giving businesses and consumers cost-effective services they really need and want. This means lowering the capital and operative costs of technology and paying attention to what makes communications more efficient, more individual, and more fun.
For over 10 years, our customers and partners — leading network operators in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and the Middle East, such as Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Egypt Telecom, MTN, Swisscom, Tele2, TeliaSonera, Telenor, Versatel, Virgin Media and Vodafone, as well as leading network equipment providers, such as Ericsson, — have turned to ECT for the innovations that help them capture new market opportunities and grow revenue and profits.
We make it possible for our customers to rapidly develop and deploy value-added services on mobile and converged networks, such as Ring Back Tone Service, Multimedia Ring Back, Mobile Office, Prepaid Mobile, Interactive Voice Response, Interactive Multimedia Response, Number Portability, Location-Based Services, Televoting, Mass Calling and Network-Based Call Centres.
All services are programmed in the open ECTXML® Extensible Mark-up Language. This language expands upon the industry standards VoiceXML and CCXML, which ECT has supplemented to include the complete control over the call session independent of the underlying network protocol. ECTXML® applications run on our INtellECT® Platform, which simultaneously supports calls to and from legacy networks, IP-based softswitches and converged networks based on the new industry standard IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). With our partner Ericsson, for instance, ECT value-added services, such as Multimedia Ring Back, have already been implemented within IMS networks.

European Computer Telecoms AG
Boris Ekart
Westendstrasse 160
80339 Munich
Germany
Tel.: (0049) 89/ 55 29 47 – 665
Fax: (0049) 89/ 55 29 47 – 111
E-Mail: press@ect-telecoms.de

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