Implementing Value-Added Telecom Services (Artech House Telecommunications Library) - Hardcover

Zuidweg, Johan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580539785 ISBN 13: 9781580539784

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Value-added services - messaging, mobile-commerce, location services, content provisioning - are the moneymakers in today's telecommunications market. This timely resource explains how a company can commercially offer these services without having to own its own telecommunications network. The book examines all the relevant technologies that enable these services and covers important business and marketing models. It details how to offer pre-paid calling over a third party's network or the Internet and explains the messaging market and how to develop and to market text, video, and instant messaging services. This comprehensive reference covers critical content delivery techniques and technologies, as well as the methods for charging customers for each type of content delivery. Moreover, the book shows how best to exploit a variety of location techniques to become a location service provider. A practical, service-oriented guide, this reference is the road map to deploying and selling third-party telecommunications services.

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About the Author

Johan Zudweig is a divisional head at Telefonica I+D, where one of his main responsibilities is representing Telefonica Moviles on the board of directors of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). He is also a professor in the technology department of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Dr. Zuidweg is also the author of Next Generation Intelligent Networks (Artech House, 2002). He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580539785
• ISBN 13: 9781580539784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248