Huawei Host European Mobile Data Seminar

China's Huawei recently hosted a Mobile Data Service & Operation Seminar in Spain. The event was attended by executives from operators (including Vodafone, Telefonica, France Telecom, British Telecom, KPN, MOBILY, MTS, etc), consultancies, SPs and CPs worldwide.

During the conference, executives from Telefonica, KPN, Jamba, OVUM etc. delivered presentations. The operators acknowledged that data services have become a major revenue source and have thus increasingly attracted their attention. "Messaging services are growing rapidly in Latin America with customer growth beating market expectations," said Mr. Joao Marques of Telefonica Mobile. Telefonica plans to focus on messaging and innovative new data services, making more investment in this market."

In addition, KPN shared its experience in the deployment of data services; PCCW described competition landscape in Hong Kong and the strategies adopted to establish a market leadership position; AIS gave an overview of segmentation in customer groups for different services in Thailand's market.

Three panel discussion sessions were held on the topics of "Messaging services", "Mobile Multimedia" and "Flexible Charging" as part of the seminar. The attendees concluded that messaging is remains a major revenue source of data services and convergent messaging is an inevitable trend, which makes content the critical success factor of multimedia services. Representatives from operators, consultancies, SPs, and CPs had warm discussions and expressed their confidence in the future.

"The telecommunications industry is evolving rapidly. Mobile data services is now widely regarded as the mainstream of future development." said Ms. Shuai Jinyu, Vice President of Huawei's Application & Software Product Line "Huawei has a deep understanding of the development of data services and is ready with respect to the technologies. The growth potential of messaging services remains strong, and mobile multimedia, digital music as well as flexible charging are future trends. Huawei already has the most cost-effective solutions for these services and will continuously improve on them."

According to the prosperous development of data services, Huawei has also introduced its Service Delivery Platform (Huawei SDP) with optimized structure which supports its partners in quickly delivering new and convergent services to the market. "

"Huawei has achieved great success in the global data service market, and is to assist all partners to achieve even greater success in the future" as Dr. Che Haiping, President of Huawei's Application & Software Product Line, said at the beginning of the seminar "Our ideas in mobile data services are Experience, Convergence, and Multi-Win. We are glad to cooperate with operators, SPs, CPs, terminal providers and all our partners to work on the future of mobile data services, facing the challenge of the transformation of the telecoms industry together."

Posted to the site on 31st July 2006