TECNOMEN´S MISSED CALL NOTICE DEPLOYED BY MOBILKOM AUSTRIA
Tecnomen Corporation PRESS RELEASE 22 December 2004
TECNOMEN´S MISSED CALL NOTICE DEPLOYED BY MOBILKOM AUSTRIA mobilkom austria, Austria´s leading mobile operator, has launched Tecnomen´s Missed Call Notice to more than 3 million subscribers. Missed Call Notice alerts subscribers about calls diverted to voice mail and the caller does not leave a message. With Missed Call Notice, mobilkom austria can provide customers with an easy-to-use, innovative service, which helps manage their personal communication. Tecnomen has developed a wide range of voice mail services in response to operators´ needs to increase voice mail and other voice services usage and revenues. Missed Call Notice keeps track of missed calls, noting the caller's number, and the time and date of the call, and delivers this information by SMS. Missed Call Notice also keeps track of the number of times the person has called as well as information about the first and last call made. "Resulting from our long-term, close co-operation with Tecnomen, we can rely on the maturity of their solution and on their flexibility. In today´s hectic life, we are happy to launch this new service to help our customers in their daily communications", says Alexander Kuchar, Head of Division, Mobile Service Network, mobilkom austria. "Tecnomen has accompanied mobilkom austria from the very beginning on its road as the innovative market leader in Austria. We are very proud to help mobilkom austria to launch this enhanced service offering to their customers," says Mr Eero Mertano, Vice President, Sales, Tecnomen. "Missed Call Notice is really an easy-to-use, mass market service. It is an addition to the phone´s missed call function as notification is provided even if the phone is out of coverage or turned off, or if the line is busy." For more information contact Mr Eero Mertano, Vice President, Sales, Tecnomen Corporation, tel. +358 9 8047 8523 Mr Kai Honetschläger, Managing Director, Tecnomen GmbH, tel. +49 6103 5085 22 About Tecnomen Tecnomen develops messaging and charging solutions for telecoms operators and service providers around the world. Founded in 1978, it is one of the leading suppliers of messaging solutions, and has a strong market position in prepaid systems and intelligent network components. It is the industry leader in paging networks. Tecnomen markets its products and services through its own worldwide organisation, as well as through global and local partners, and has supplied its products to customers in over 40 countries. Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Tecnomen has 340 employees working in 10 locations. The company's shares are quoted on the Helsinki Exchanges. For more information on Tecnomen visit www.tecnomen.com About mobilkom austria mobilkom austria was founded in 1996, and since then has remained Telekom Austria Group's most successful venture. In the 3rd quarter of 2004, mobilkom austria group counted 4.82 million customers including shareholdings in Croatia, Slovenia and Liechtenstein, and more than 3600 employees - bringing in revenue of 563.9 million EUR. In the 3rd quarter of 2004 also EBITDA was increased to 224.8 million EUR. These figures could be achieved by large share of high value customers (business customers), who appreciate mobilkom austria´s innovative and high quality products. mobilkom austria set another milestone by starting Europe`s first national UMTS network on September 25, 2002 and by publicly launching third generation services on April 25, 2003.