VeriSign Inc. at CTIA this week unveiled a new strategy to help carriers of all sizes more quickly deliver integrated, next-generation services for wireless, cable and wireline subscribers.
Through its Intelligent Communications, Commerce and Content Services (IC3) strategy, VeriSign will leverage its heritage in security, Internet infrastructure and telecommunications to aid carriers via a managed communications services model.
"VeriSign's IC3 strategy allows carriers to make the business transformation without forcing them to spend enormous amounts of capital or take their eye off of current services and business priorities," says Vernon Irvin, executive vice president, VeriSign Communications Services. "Instead, we can handle that complexity – the organizational issues, the economic issues, the technological issues and the regulatory issues – through a managed communications services platform that delivers the next-generation services we've all been waiting for - quickly, intelligently and cost effectively."
Also at CTIA, VeriSign made several related announcements including:
* The acquisition of the assets of Unimobile, a provider of mobile messaging solutions for carriers and enterprises. The acquisition, complemented by VeriSign's existing capabilities in encryption, security and services for wireless billing and mediation between carriers, positions VeriSign to play a major role in the secure delivery of business and entertainment content, according to VeriSign. VeriSign will incorporate the Unimobile technology with its own services to offer a broad new set of short message service, multimedia messaging service and secure content delivery capabilities.
* An agreement through which MetroPCS will use VeriSign and Telespree's joint Self-Service Set-Up product, which guides end users through wireless device activation or reactivation, and ongoing account maintenance using only the mobile device itself without the aid of a sales clerk or call center. MetroPCS will offer automated reactivation and rate plan change features via the handset for its customers.
* The interoperability approval of VeriSign's Wireless Calling Naming Delivery solution from Nortel Networks. Compatibility approval was achieved using CDMA and TDMA infrastructure equipment located in Nortel Networks Wireless Interoperability Lab in Richardson, Texas. VeriSign successfully tested its WCNAM Delivery solution on six handsets from vendors including Motorola, LG and Nokia. VeriSign, the first calling name database provider to introduce a WCNAM Delivery solution to the wireless market, is also the first provider to receive Nortel Networks' interoperability approval for this service.
