ArrivedOK beta testing extended until 30 June
Eyeline Communications officially extended the public beta testing of ArrivedOK flight arrival tracker until 30 June 2009. All the subscribers can use the service free of charge until that date. Whether ArrivedOK will be a paid service immediately afterwards is still a question. Eyeline Communication will issue a special public notice on the subject. Please don’t forget that 100 beta testers, which submit most valuable feedback during the public beta testing will win 1-year free ArrivedOK subscription.
ArrivedOK flight arrival tracker gets localized for Japanese, Russian markets
WWW.ARRIVEDOK.MOBI flight tracker and arrival messenger selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards, gets localized for Japanese and Russian markets, available for the rest of the world now.
Austin, TX – 20 April 2009 — ArrivedOK, the personal flight arrival tracker and arrival messenger is now available in Japanese and Russian languages and open for beta testing in most countries of the world. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by email, SMS, via blogs or Twitter, and enables travelers to save on international roaming charges.
Developed by Eyeline Communications Inc., ArrivedOK lets travelers enter flight information and recipient emails or phone numbers before take-off. When you reach your destination and turn on your cell phone, the service locates your cell phone in the local mobile network and automatically sends out a brief arrival message to the recipients in your list.
Along with the convenience of being able to alert at once different people with different messages, the application allows users bypassing the heavy international roaming charges for voice, text and mobile email services while traveling abroad.
The unique feature of ArrivedOK is that it notifies about one’s personal arrival instead of flight status in general. “Unlike other flight tracking services, which are based on general flight data from dispatcher centers, ArrivedOK tracks one’s actual appearance in the destination airport, so one’s friends and colleagues are 100 percent sure the person is landed okay.” – says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications.
ArrivedOK has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards in two categories: Best Use of GPS or Location Technology and Experimental & Innovation. ArrivedOK is currently translated into Japanese, French and Russian languages and available as free Public Beta in most countries of the world.
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See the press release in Russian.
See the press release in Japanese.
About Eyeline Communications Inc.
Eyeline Communications Inc. is incorporated in Austin, TX and has offices in Singapore, Russia, and CIS. With 80 mln subscriber base in Europe and Asia, Eyeline provides carrier-grade B2B products and delivers mobile services to the end users.
Le suiveur d'arrivée de vols ArrivedOK permet aux voyageurs aériens de prévenir les autres de leur arrivée par SMS, e-mail, blog ou Twitter
ArrivedOK (www.arrivedok.mobi/fr/), le suiveur d’arrivée de vol personnel, est désormais ouvert au public pour son test bêta. Ce service permet aux passagers de prévenir automatiquement les autres de leur arrivée dans un aéroport par SMS, e-mail, blog ou Twitter, tout en réalisant des économies sur les tarifs de roaming international.
ArrivedOK Personal Flight Tracker logo
Mis au point par Eyeline Communications Inc., ArrivedOK permet aux passagers de prévenir automatiquement les autres de leur arrivée à destination. Programmez votre vol sur www.arrivedok.mobi/fr/ avec l’aéroport de destination, l’heure d’arrivée prévue et le numéro de téléphone ou l’e-mail du ou des destinataire(s). ArrivedOK repère votre téléphone portable sur le réseau mobile lorsque vous le rallumez après l’atterrissage. Il envoie alors le message << Bien arrivé(e) >> à votre liste de destinataires.
La particularité d’ArrivedOK est qu’il prévient de votre arrivée à vous, et non simplement du statut du vol en général. << Contrairement à d'autres services, qui sont basés sur des données générales sur le vol fournies par les centres répartiteurs, ArrivedOK s'appuie sur le statut du téléphone portable d'un abonné particulier. Il surveille son apparition dans l'aéroport de destination, afin que ses amis et sa famille soient à 100 pour cent sûrs que la personne a bien atterri >>, explique Andrey Deriabin, directeur du développement commercial chez Eyeline Communications.
Prenant appui sur une technologie en cours d’homologation, ArrivedOK détecte le téléphone portable de l’abonné lorsqu’il est enregistré sur un réseau GSM local. ArrivedOK permet aux abonnés d’envoyer des alertes d’arrivée personnalisées à différents groupes de destinataires, tout en réalisant des économies sur les tarifs de roaming international lorsqu’ils se rendent à l’étranger.
<< Ce service est conçu pour être à la fois amusant et utile >>, précise Andrey Deriabin. << Les voyageurs aériens dépensent généralement de grosses sommes d'argent lorsqu'ils envoient des sms ou passent des appels en roaming juste pour prévenir quelqu'un qu'ils sont bien arrivés. Grâce à ArrivedOK, les personnes qui surveillent leurs dépenses pourront réaliser des économies >>.
ArrivedOK lance son test bêta public avec 29 réseaux mobiles dans 10 pays choisis. Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter le www.arrivedok.mobi/fr/
À propos d’Eyeline Communications Inc.
Eyeline Communications Inc. (www.eyeline.mobi) est constituée en société à Austin, au Texas et a des bureaux à Singapour, en Russie et dans la CEI. Comptant 80 millions d’abonnés en Europe et en Asie, Eyeline propose des produits interentreprises de classe transporteur ainsi que des services mobiles aux utilisateurs finaux.
Contact:
Andrey Deriabin
Eyeline Communications Inc.
Tél: +7-3833630139
Téléphone portable: +7-9139859722
E-mail: andrey.deriabin@eyeline.mobi
ArrivedOK flight arrival tracker lets air passengers notify others about their personal landing by SMS, email, blogs, Twitter
WWW.ARRIVEDOK.MOBI Announces Public Beta Testing
Austin, TX – 23 March 2009 /PR Newswire/ — ArrivedOK (www.arrivedok.mobi/hello), the personal flight arrival tracker, is now open for public beta testing. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by SMS, email, via weblogs or Twitter, and enables users to save on international roaming charges.
ArrivedOK Personal Flight Tracker logo
Developed by Eyeline Communications Inc., ArrivedOK lets air travelers automatically alert others about their arrival at their destinations. Schedule your flight at www.arrivedok.mobi with the destination airport, expected arrival time, your recipient phone numbers or emails. ArrivedOK tracks your cell phone in the mobile network when you turn it on after the landing. Then it instantly sends ‘Arrived OK’ messages to the list of your recipients.
The unique feature of ArrivedOK is that it alerts about one’s personal arrival instead of flight status in general. “Unlike other flight services, which are based on general flight data from dispatcher centers, ArrivedOK rely on particular subscriber’s mobile phone status. It tracks one’s actual appearance in the destination airport, so one’s friends and family are 100 percent sure the person is landed okay.” – says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications.
Based on patent-pending technology, ArrivedOK works by detecting its subscriber’s mobile phone when it is registered in a local GSM network. ArrivedOK allows sending personalized arrival alerts to different groups of recipients, and enables subscribers to save on international roaming charges when traveling abroad.
“The service is designed to be both fun and useful,” says Andrey Deriabin. “Air travelers usually spend remarkable amount of money when texting or making phone calls in roaming just to let someone know they landed fine. With ArrivedOK those people who care about their expenses will be able to make it for less.”
ArrivedOK starts its public beta testing with 29 mobile networks in 10 selected countries. For more information visit http://www.arrivedok.mobi/hello
About Eyeline Communications Inc.
Eyeline Communications Inc. is incorporated in Austin, TX and has offices in Singapore, Russia, and CIS. With 80 mln subscriber base in Europe and Asia, Eyeline provides carrier-grade B2B products and delivers mobile services to the end users.
Contact: Andrey Deriabin
Eyeline Communications Inc.
Tel: +73833630139
Cell Phone: +79139859722
Email: andrey.deriabin@eyeline.mobi
PRIVET Roaming Expanded to Spain
In the beginning of 2009 Russian mobile operator velcom (velcom and PRIVET trade marks) expanded roaming options for PRIVET subscribers.
Source: http://www.interfax.by/, 12 January 2009
“Starting January, 2009 PRIVET subscribers can use International Roaming service in Spanish mobile network TELEFONICA MOVILES ESPANA”, – announced one of velcom representatives.
“User subscribes to the service independently via his mobile, only in velcom network, using USSD command *126# (direct request – *126*6# and call button)”, – explained the company’s representative.
At present the number of company’s partners, with whom the company established roaming for PRIVET subscribers, is 34 mobile operators in 25 countries.
ArrivedOK.mobi Flight Tracker Starts Beta Testing
Based on Eyeline’s patent-pending technology, ArrivedOK.mobi goes far beyond existing mobile text flight alert services by providing its subscribers with unique flight tracking and messaging features.
www.ArrivedOK.mobi works by detecting its subscriber’s mobile phone in a destination GSM network when the user switches it on upon arrival. The service allows users to notify others about his or her safe landing by SMS or email. When the passenger’s cell phone is tracked in the destination airport, ArrivedOK instantly sends text or email messages to the list of recipients the subscriber created online.
As ArrivedOK rely on particular subscriber’s mobile phone status instead of general flight data from?dispatcher centers,?it provides accurate information about one’s arrival.
“It really is a Personal Arrival Tracker,” says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications. “Unlike other flight trackers and alert services that only provide information about changes in scheduled arrival time, ArrivedOK traces an individual’s actual appearance in the destination point, so one’s friends and family are 100 percent sure the person is landed okay.”
ArrivedOK operation is not technically restricted to particular airlines, or mobile networks. It allows simultaneous sending of customized arrival alerts to different groups of recipients, and enables subscribers to save on international roaming charges when traveling abroad.
“The service is designed to be both fun and useful,” says Andrey Deriabin. “Air travelers usually spend remarkable amount of money when texting or making phone calls in roaming just to let somebody know they landed fine. With ArrivedOK those people who care about their spendings can make it for less.”
Mobile TeleSystems Chooses Eyeline Communications Customer Self-Care Solution to Cover Its Entire Network in Russia
Previously deployed in MTS-Siberia, Eyeline Ads-n-Balance enables both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers to check their balance via a single SMS and USSD service number and provides balance reporting in national languages.
The solution is powered by Eyeline Sharp Ads – an intelligent mobile advertising platform that allows an operator to place ads into the response messages to its customers. “Eyeline Ads-n-Balance not only helps the operator to improve end-user experience and significantly lower customer support costs,” says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline. “It also provides an opportunity to utilize the familiar service as powerful information and advertising channel that delivers messages to the million-sized audience every day.”
A leading provider of USSD services and solutions, Eyeline Communications earlier deployed the mobile self-care Portal *111# for Mobile TeleSystems, which enabled the consumers to manage and top up their accounts, transfer balance, change tariff plans, add features etc directly via USSD interface on any mobile device without the assistance and high costs associated with personal customer care, WAP, or an IVR.
International airtime recharge and payments service powered by Eyeline Communications gets Global Telecoms Business Award
On 9/09/2008 Mobile TeleSystems and Atos Origin received the award in the International Mobile Service Innovation category for a joint project for Worldline global recharge service (GRS). Atos Origin partnered with Eyeline Communications to enable MTS customers to recharge their balance when traveling abroad through cross-border airtime transfers.
GRS can support both own top-up and third-party airtime recharge by a variety of payment means, including payments by using widespread prepaid vouchers from third-parties. The list of participants in the project included such companies as Play (Poland), Vodafone (Egypt), Maxis (Malaysia), DTAC (Thailand) and StarHub (Singapore), says MTS press-release. The geography of the project will be constantly expanding as more operators from different countries join the list.
‘This award won by our partners is an acknowledgement of Eyelene’s reputation as leading provider of signaling solutions for mobile operators’, – Vitaly Gumirov, Eyeline CEO, commented. – It is testimony to our commitment to technology innovations and capability to provide world-class services to our customers’.
Eyeline team had won an innovation award before at SIMagine competition at 3GSM World Congress 2001. Currently the company offers its customers a wide range of network infrastructure and mobile marketing products and services.
- Learn more about Atos Worldline Global Recharge Solution (case study).
- MTS wins two prestigious Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards, press release at MTS website.
- Global Telecoms Business Awards
Center: Reiner Wergen, Product Marketing Manager (Atos Worldline); Cynthia Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer (MTS Group).
Right to left: Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development (Eyeline); Tomasz Muhleisen, Business Development Manager (Atos Worldline); Jon Taylor, Technical Product Manager (MACH)
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About Atos Origin
Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company’s annual revenues are EUR 5,8 billion and it employs over 50,000 people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.
About Mobile TeleSystems
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS”) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company services over 87.26 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. Since June 2000, MTS’ Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT). Additional information about MTS can be found on MTS’ website at www1.mtsgsm.com.
About Eyeline Communications
Eyeline Communications is a global Service Operator providing outsourced mobile service management and delivery, comprising personalization, content search, charging, and marketing solutions to Telcos, Content Providers, and Aggregators. Eyeline is incorporated in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Singapore, Russia, and CIS. With 60 mln subscriber base in Europe and Asia, Eyeline both provides carrier-grade B2B solutions and delivers value added services to the end users.
Eyeline Communications Launches Its Mobile Traveler's Portal in Russia
Eyeline Communications Inc., a global Service Operator providing carrier-grade B2B and VAS infrastructure solutions launched its mobile portal for Russian travelers. The first phase of the service available to Mobile TeleSystems subscribers under the name Mobile Guide offers the travel content covering the entire Krasnodar region – a popular Black Sea area with many tourist hot spots including Sochi – the host city of the Winter Olympics 2014.
According to the official stats of Russian Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) 29 mln Russians spent their vacations within the country in 2007, among which 5 mln visited Krasnodar region. A recent Romir research maintains that Russians’ favorite places to go are Black Sea resorts in Sochi, Anapa and Gelendzhik visited respectively by 20%, 17%, and 10% of the total RF population.
‘The Mobile Guide provides useful information about those places including advice about prices, accommodation, eating out, leasure activities, entertainment, and transport’ – Julia Karpitskaya, Product Manager, Eyeline Communications CIS, says. – ‘And as foreign destinations such as Egypt, Finland, Italy and Spain become increasingly popular and affordable for many Russians, we’ll soon be ready to deliver the content about those countries too.’
Powered by Eyeline proprietary WHOISD Service Delivery Framework, the Portal is capable of adjusting to the interests and travel plans of a particular user. It is capable of detecting and storing user specific data like geographical location, most often requested content etc. that altogether form a user profile. This profile can be applied to offer personalized content and carry on thoroughly targeted mobile marketing campaigns.
- Click here to learn more about Eyeline Traveler’s Portal.
- Mobile Guide Information and User’s Manual in Russian at MTS website.
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Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company services over 83.88 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million.
A member of GSM Association (GSMA), Eyeline Communications is a global Service Operator providing outsourced mobile service management and delivery, comprising personalization, content search, charging, and marketing solutions to Telcos, Content Providers, and Aggregators. Eyeline is incorporated in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Singapore, Russia, and CIS. With 60 mln subscriber base in Europe and Asia, Eyeline both provides carrier-grade B2B solutions and delivers value added services to the end users.
Eyeline Communications Adds Extra Features To Peer-to-Peer SMS Services
Eyeline Communications Inc., a global Service Operator providing carrier-grade B2B and VAS infrastructure solutions, deployed its Eyeline SMS Extra platform in the network of Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE:MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS.
The platform enables more than 52 mln subscribers of MTS in Russia to use the familiar text features in new ways and helps the operator to increase its profits from non-voice services.
The feature SMS Secret allows a subscriber to send text messages which can be read by the recipient only after unlocking them with an individual password. SMS Group supports ‘messaging lists’ enabling subscriber to create a social network or simply send messages to a large number of recipients at once. SMS Express messages are automatically unfold on the recipient’s screen and are not stored in the phone. SMS Calendar enables subscribers to defer the delivery of their SMS until particular time.
The platform is easily integrated into any GSM network, providing multi-language support and transliteration for terminals, and the management of subscribers settings via SMS or USSD.
The functionalities of Eyeline SMS Extra are not limited to those that just became available to MTS subscribers. For instance, SMS Nick can be used to substitute sender’s phone number in the messages “From” field with an arbitrary alias. As a result, the recipients will see, for example, the sender’s nickname or blog title instead of her mobile number.
Sponsored SMS will be interesting to the companies that want to use the mobile medium for marketing activities. The service enables subscribers to send peer-to-peer SMS for free or at discounted rate. They, in turn, agree to receive advertisements via SMS, flash SMS, USSD, WAP-push and/or Cell Broadcast. The service allows flexible routing of the advertisements by geographical region, medium, time, etc.
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Mobile TeleSystems OJSC («MTS») is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company services over 74.64 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. Since June 2000, MTS’ Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT). Additional information about MTS can be found on MTS’ website at www1.mtsgsm.com.
