Frost & Sullivan Selects OZ for the 2004 Product Differentiation Innovation Award

Frost & Sullivan confers the 2004 Product Differentiation Innovation Award on OZ Communications for its clear demonstration of launching innovative products and services for MIM

• Frost & Sullivan believes that innovation and creativity are OZ’s core competence. Their unique ability to differentiate their products amongst their competitors truly stands out in them attaining a sustainable competitive advantage for MIM solutions.
• This can be justified with the number of high profile firms that include in their customer portfolio such as Cingular, T-Mobile USA, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.
• OZ’s varied products and services include the OZ Mobile IM Gateway, OZ’s IMPS clients which includes the latest downloadable J2ME client available, OZ’s IMPS server and the OZ Mobile Email Gateway, all based on the OMA standard specifications.
• OZ’s Mobile IM Gateway is capable of facilitating carriers to easily set up their MIM services within a short period of time and supports MIM services based on both OMA IMPS protocol specifications as well as proprietary IM protocols.
• OZ’s expertise in their Mobile IM Gateway enables carriers to overcome the teething problems faced while deploying a new service such as billing and customer support interface. With their strong strategic partnerships with Yahoo, AOL and MSN, it provides mobile operators a feasible approach in interconnecting with the established IM providers thereby enabling their networks to access a well established community base.
• OZ’s IMPS server is fully tested and compliant to the OMA specifications and provides carriers with a cost-effective solution due to its ability to easily integrate into the carrier’s network. OZ fully supports server-server protocol (SSP) interoperability for instant messaging and presence services between various IMPS servers.
• OZ’s server is easily customized and provides an effective mechanism to offer new voice and data services that leverage the presence-enabled contact list. It is also capable in supporting content sharing and MMS capabilities individually or with a group of users.
• OZ will use the proceeds from the recent US$27.3 million investment from VantagePoint Venture Partners of Silicon Valley to have a more significant presence in both Europe and Asia after attaining immense laurels in North America and thereby achieve their mission of making MIM a ubiquitous service.
• OZ has a clear understanding of the actual service offerings and requirements of their customers in order to successfully bring MIM products and services to the market. With the experience they have attained over the years, Frost & Sullivan believes that OZ will be able to meet customers’ expectations for a complete, attractive and feature rich experience in mobile communications and thereby have the potential to be a global market leader for MIM services in the future.

For more information please contact:

Beverly Wilks
Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications
Tel: +1 514 390.2906

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