Volantis, Accenture deliver 3G portal for MTN South Africa

Rating: hot air helps revenue inflate by 50%?

By Annie Turner

Volantis has issued a press release to say that some time ago, it teamed up with Accenture to deploy MTN South Africa’s 3G Service Delivery Platform now powering its Content Portal, MTN Loaded. The technology handles the web, WAP, USSD, WIG, SMS and MMS on MTN’s portal.

Furthermore, the new content platform supports subscriptions and pay per event for pre-paid and post-paid subscribers, allowing consumers to subscribe to news, sports and event-related information, such as video from SuperSports.

MTN says, “In the first six months since launch, the number of subscribers on the portal increased by 200% while content revenue for the first four months after launch was on average 50% higher than the four month period prior to go-live.”

Volantis, which modestly describes itself as the world’s leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions for the Mobile Internet, claims its Mobile Content Framework is the wireless industry’s most widely deployed content delivery platform.

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