Industry Validates Movial Solution as Most Advanced PC Client to Enrich Social and Business Use of Communications
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Barcelona, SPAIN – February 16, 2010 – Movial, the company that inspires rich and intuitive Internet experiences, today announced at the world’s largest telecommunications event, that its newest release, Movial Communicator PC 8 has won the “Best RCS Client” award in the GSMA Rich Communication Suite DevChallenge competition.
The ‘Best RCS Client’ award recognizes the most useable RCS client as decided by the RCS DevChallenge panel of judges comprised of leading operators, RCS equipment vendors, industry analysts and chaired by the GSMA’s Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, Alex Sinclair.
Judges found Movial Communicator PC to be the best RCS client over seven other submissions based on its design, usability and breadth of conformance to RCS specifications. The judging panel nominated Movial Communicator PC as the winning application to enrich the social and business use of communications and to offer a new and attractive opportunity for mobile and fixed line users to share their real-time experiences with a mixture of voice, text, and still or video images. Movial Communicator PC demonstrated a genuine value-added dimension for commercial deployment.
Movial Communicator PC 8 provides a complete RCS client for rich HD Voice, HD Video Telephony, enhanced address book and messaging – based on RCS 2 Social Media -- providing unmatched innovation in the PC communication user experience across Mac OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms.
“Our company was founded on the principle of designing rich intuitive Internet user experiences,” said Jari Ala-Ruona, CEO and Co-founder, Movial. “With the dedication of the industry leaders, operators and the GSMA behind RCS – we are as an industry -- well on our way to delivering the most advanced and integrated communications user experience ever. We are honored to have Movial Communicator PC 8 recognized ‘Best RCS Client’ further validating its rich communication design and functionality.”
Movial Communicator PC 8 has already been selected by several mobile operators for commercial IMS deployments and is included in several LTE trials currently underway.
The GSMA competition, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Orange and Telefonica has allowed Movial the opportunity to demonstrate its latest and most innovative offering in front of an audience of the world’s leading operators, telecommunication companies, and leading industry analysts.
The RCS service package fits the lifestyle communication needs of ‘always-on’ users and is the starting point for social interaction. Its feature-rich portfolio of services unleashes the communities hidden in the user’s phonebook and makes multimedia social networking simpler. RCS is recognized as one of the most significant opportunities for operators to grow their business – in a market that serves over 4 billion users.
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 ,Tablet 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.
Movial Communicator PC 8 will be demoed at the GSMA App Garage Stand 7APG within the GSMA Village in Hall 7. To schedule a media or analyst briefing or for further inquiries, please contact Ilona Mohacsi at (631) 764-3729, or via e-mail at ilona@abelsongroup.com.
About Movial
Movial inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences for companies embracing transformational technologies. Leveraging its deep expertise in Internet, Linux and mobile devices, Movial seamlessly enables its customers to deliver richer user experiences to millions of people on PCs and on mobile devices. Movial's device creation, Internet communications applications and design for digital services are generating revenue for industry leaders like Adobe, ARM, Ericsson, Nokia, Orange, Telefónica, and Optimus. By delivering highly intuitive and compelling user experiences, Movial has become the trusted source for enriching the way people interact every day. For more information, visit http://www.movial.com.