Nokia Extends Total Mobility to the Home
Environment At Telecom '99
Source: BUSINESS WIRE
HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1999--Nokia
launched Total Mobility Home to help GSM network operators
increase both subscriber numbers and mobile usage, through
targeting the family as a single consumer.
As an extension to its groundbreaking Total Mobility Office solutions,
Total Mobility Home helps operators tap into this potential business
by overcoming the perceived barriers among consumers: quality,
cost, and control.
"Total Mobility Home is an important part of Nokia's continuing effort
to help network operators reach out to new market segments and
revenue sources," says Olli Oittinen, Vice President, Marketing and
Sales, Radio Access Systems, Nokia Networks. "In addition, Total
Mobility Home helps families embrace the security and convenience
of mobile phones."
The building blocks of the Total Mobility Home solution are the Nokia
UltraSite solution, the Nokia Virtual Private Network (VPN), the Nokia
TariffZone, and the Nokia Service Gateway.
"Mobilix is planning to launch a unique family offering in autumn
2000," says Monique Moulle-Zetterstrom, CEO, Mobilix. "We wish to
connect all the family's communications systems together into a
Family Center where both scratch-card and subscription-based
mobile phones will be combined on equal terms with the usual
telephone and the Internet connection. The core of the family's very
own communications system will be an electronic calendar, which
may be accessed through both mobile phones and the Internet. By
way of spoken messages e-mails and short messages, family
members are able to keep themselves informed of each other's plans
and how best to co- ordinate daily activities - thereby increasing the
family's well- being."
"Nokia's Total Mobility Home solution fits the Mobilix concept like a
glove and will contribute to refining our upcoming Family Center by
extending the possibilities for parents to continuously be informed of
where their children are and how they are doing."
Operators can improve quality in coverage and capacity within
residential areas thanks to the Nokia UltraSite solution, a true
multimedia-ready solution supporting high speed circuit switched
data (HSCSD), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced
Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) and Wideband CDMA. Nokia
UltraSite will enable a variety of new Mobile Multimedia applications
such as videotelephony, infotainment, mobile Internet and intranet
access at home.
To address the cost barrier, the Nokia Virtual Private Network (VPN)
and Nokia TariffZone solutions offer flexible call rating. A "family
VPN" allows mobile users to enjoy special rates on calls within a
select group of family and friends, while calls to people outside the
VPN are charged normally. A VPN "short number" function is also
ideal for children's mobiles, allowing easy "one-button" dialling.
The Nokia TariffZone takes a geographical approach to holding down
costs. Operators can define distinct "home zones" for their
subscribers, in which special tariffs apply. Besides enabling zone-
based tariffing schemes, TariffZone also allows users to benefit from
different mobile services in different areas of the network.
Family subscribers also gain more control of their services with the
Nokia Service Gateway (NSG), which provides convenient do-it-
yourself service management over the Web - setting the stage for
truly mobile service-management with WAP-enabled mobile phones.
For instance, parents can use NSG to give call rights or set
restrictions for certain users.
Total Mobility Home enables messaging services to reach new levels,
giving operators a competitive edge in introducing ubiquitous
messaging services to their customers.
Mobilix is Denmark's dynamic telecommunications company aiming
at becoming the preferred global supplier of the residential and
business sectors of telecommunications services. Mobilix offers
competitive products and services within mobile telephony, fixed
telephony, data and Internet and has its own Danish backbone
network which is at the basis for the offers for competitive prices of
fixed telephony and data services. Mobilix is a 54% owned company
by one of the world's most important telecom companies, France
Telecom, as well as five financial institutions - GE Capital Structure
Finance Group of the US (SFG), PAI (Paribas Affairis Industrielle),
PART'COM (Group Caisse de Depots), Capital Communications
CDPQ Inc. of Canada and MEDIATEL CAPITAL- which together hold
32%, and by Banestyrelsen by 14%. (www.mobilix.dk)
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its
innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone
supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks
including related services. It also supplies multimedia terminals and
computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD
15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New
York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock
exchanges and employs more than 51 000 people.
Publication date: Oct 08, 1999 |
