Ericsson provides enterprise mobile phone users full PBX functionality

Ericsson provides enterprise mobile phone users full PBX functionality Telia Danmark is the first-ever GSM operator to launch Ericsson's new mobile solution for enterprises, GSM Mobile Centrex. GSM Mobile Centrex, which is part of Ericsson's new GSM Office Solutions package, provides enterprise GSM users all corporate telephony features of the office - while they are on the move. GSM Mobile Centrex, developed in cooperation between Telia Danmark and Ericsson, is now available for all GSM operators. With GSM Mobile Centrex, operators can extend their enterprise customers' number plans to mobile handsets. This means GSM users within a company can use their mobile phones exactly as they use the fixed phones at the office. For example, they can activate corporate telephone features, use in-house extensions, put calls on hold, initiate messaging services, and place calls through the company wireline network, as well as transfer calls and automatically redial on busy to complete a call. A major benefit is the cost savings that an enterprise can achieve, as GSM subscribers have full PBX functionality billed at the lower tariff rates for calls within the company. GSM Mobile Centrex is part of Ericsson's GSM Office Solutions, which offers a complete solution portfolio for GSM operators targeting the enterprise market. The solution portfolio provides a general, future proof migration path from simple, centralized solutions to advanced, local IP-based GSM services. The GSM Office Solutions portfolio of products makes it possible for operators to add users and services gradually over time in their enterprise offers, and at the same time utilize existing network investments. The product portfolio includes GSM Mobile Centrex, GSM on the Net, Mobile Virtual Private Network, Indoor Radio Base Station 2401, Ericsson Virtual Office, Office Zone and SIM card applications. GSM is the world's most widely deployed wireless communications standard. Ericsson is the global market leader in GSM, with close to half the world's 170 million GSM subscribers connected by Ericsson systems. More than 125 operators in close to 70 countries around the world rely on GSM systems from Ericsson. Ericsson is the leading provider in the new telecoms world, with communications solutions that combine telecom and datacom technologies with freedom of mobility for the user. With more than 100,000 employees in 140 countries, Ericsson simplifies communications for its customers - network operators, service providers, enterprises and consumers - the world over. Please visit Ericsson's Press Room at: http://www.ericsson.se/pressroom FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT Johan Wiklund, Ericsson Corporate Communications Phone: +46 70 560 0134; E-mail: johan.wiklund@lme.ericsson.se Jens Friberg, Project Manager, GSM Office Solutions Ericsson Business Unit GSM Systems Phone: +46 8 585 31 886; E-mail: jens.friberg@era.ericsson.se GSM Office Solutions product facts: GSM Mobile Centrex links employees regardless of location and provides the mobile phone user with a wide range of PBX services, such as private numbering plan, call back on busy, call transfer and absent subscriber. GSM on the Net is a total communication solution, providing GSM connectivity over IP based enterprise networks together with data and multimedia services. Mobile Virtual Private Network (M-VPN) links employees independent of location, thanks to common numbering plans for mobile and fixed access, and mobile service transparency on - as off site. M-VPN also has powerful cost control tools. Indoor Radio Base Station 2401 is the world's first dedicated indoor radio base station, designed for office environments. It supports up to 100 enterprise subscribers. Ericsson Virtual Office is a software package that creates a remote extension of the corporate network using wireless as well as wireline connections. The package supports Windows 95/98, Windows CE, Windows NT or EPOC. Office Zone enables location based customized tariffs for originating calls supported by a graphical zone administration system. SIM card applications create Centrex functionality menus on a mobile phone, to be used as easy as "Phone book" or "Messages." ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/05/25/19990525BIT00240/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/05/25/19990525BIT00240/bit0002.pdf