Movial Selected to Deliver First-Rate Voice Quality, High Definition Video Telephony and Converged Communication Capabilities for Leading Mobile Operator
HELSINKI, Finland — December 17, 2008 — Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, today announced that Cyta, the leading telecommunications company in Cyprus has launched an IMS PC play with its broadband telephony service bundle, powered by Movial Communicator. The new service features exceptional voice quality, the industry’s most advanced High-Definition (HD) video capabilities for PC users available today and a host of converged communication capabilities.
Cyta’s new service offering powered by Movial can be viewed at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Vc1GUXC5U and www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtuQJltUgY
According to an independent survey, Movial client software delivers 20% better voice quality, 20% higher usability than other softphones, and generates 15% more communications traffic for operators. An industry leader for 48 years in the Cypriot telecommunications market, Cyta provides a complete portfolio of telecommunication services. Cyta selected Movial’s Communicator PC software based on the company’s proven track record for highly intuitive and advanced video capabilities and consistent user experience.
With Movial’s PC client software, Cyta, in combination with its broadband telephony service bundle, delivers highly advanced, yet easy to use, PC services to its subscribers. With its compelling and fully integrated end-user experience, which includes IM, VoIP and video telephony - all enabled with Presence technology - Movial Communicator has empowered Cyta to meet the personal and professional needs of its growing customer base with this new revenue generating service.
“Our mission is to continuously improve the business activity and quality of life of our customers by providing the most advanced telecommunication services they need” said Lefteris Christou, Head of Convergent Services & Hosted Applications at Cyta. “Movial’s end user focus and advanced features deliver the best unified communications to attract new customers and increase communication opportunities for our existing subscribers. We are now able to provide our customers with the highest quality video calls from PC-to-PC in real time and PC-to-Mobile in the near future.”
“Cyta prides itself on communications excellence and Movial is delighted to play a critical role in helping the organization seamlessly launch its advanced IP Communication services,” said Victor Donselaar, President at Movial. “The global economy demands cutting-edge converged communications and Cyta has delivered its subscribers the most advanced personal and professional mobile telecommunications services available today.”
Device manufacturers, network equipment vendors and service providers are continuously searching to provide end-users with compelling converged IP-based services across the mobile and fixed domain. These services need to provide end-users with a great user experience as well as leverage IP and IMS infrastructure investments and provide revenue-generating opportunities. Movial provides proven business solutions for IP communication services. More than 18 carriers around the world rely on Movial’s converged unified communications and rich communications across PC, Mobile, Set-Top Box and other devices. The company has the most IP communication commercial deployments and IMS clients in the world. Movial customers and partners include Orange, Optimus, Telefonica, Texas Instruments, Samsung and Ericsson.
Cyta, the incumbent telecommunications organization in Cyprus provides a variety of advanced communications services, covering the whole spectrum of customer needs for voice and data communications over fixed and mobile networks. Besides the traditional services offered by a network provider, Cyta seeks to maintain its leading position in the provisioning of value-added fixed mobile convergence services as well, such as various IP-based multimedia applications, intelligent content delivery and quadruple play, which promise to be a dominant business activity in the next decade. Cyta, as a telecommunications hub in the area, also offers an extensive submarine optical cable network offering transit services for telephony and data, as well as connection services to the Internet for ISPs.