Organizations of all sizes continue to capitalize on DeviceAnywhere’s proven remote handset and network access capability to optimize their products’ user experience and increase quality throughout the mobile ecosystem
March 27, 2007
ORLANDO, Fla. -- March 26, 2007 – CTIA - Mobile Complete today announced from the show floor of CTIA, breakthrough milestones as the leading provider of testing and monitoring solutions aimed at improving the mobile experience. Under its DeviceAnywhere remote handset and network access solution, the company has reached an impressive 1000+ customers (including Fortune 500 enterprises) and now supports close to 500 handsets across 11 mobile networks worldwide. Additionally, more than 40 handsets, including several pre-commercial handsets, are being added to the service each month, and the service is expanding carrier and handset coverage globally, further solidifying its market leadership position.
“The feedback from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive. We are proud to have achieved these landmark milestones and are committed to build upon these success rates as we continue to establish a worldwide community of users,” said Faraz Syed, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobile Complete. “DeviceAnywhere users - while improving their mobile products - are at the same time adding a tremendous amount of invaluable intelligence to the mobile ecosystem. The bottom line is about bringing quality mobile products to market. DeviceAnywhere - powered by its customers - is having a strong positive impact on industry-wide mobile product quality.”
DeviceAnywhere provides mobile content developers, aggregators, service providers and application developers the ability to remotely access and control actual physical handsets connected to live networks. Mobile Complete’s customers have already utilized over 50,000 testing hours on DeviceAnywhere to improve the quality of their mobile products. Usage rates continue to grow at an unparalleled rate of more than 20% per month, with each hour dedicated to improving quality across all mobile product categories ranging from handsets to mobile content to WAP applications. This massive amount of testing has transformed DeviceAnywhere into a significant vehicle for the development and delivery of high-quality mobile products.
Mobile Complete’s customer list includes some of the mobile industry’s big players including: PayPal, a leading online financial services provider; MCN, a leading provider of real-time mobile search services and July Systems, a mobile content marketing and retailing company.
"Mobile Complete provides the best services I've seen in the industry to help ensure the quality and scalability of mobile-related applications." said Ayyaz Yousaf, Senior Quality Assurance Manager at PayPal.
“With DeviceAnywhere, we’re not only able to access phones locally without having to physically have the phones in our hands, but we’re finally able to remotely test our services -- even in Europe and Asia,” said Marc Bookman, CEO at MCN. “Mobile Complete has provided us unlimited accessibility to devices located anywhere in the world. This is invaluable to our business and a key enabler when it comes to providing a truly global real-time mobile search service.”
“Mobile consumers demand a simple, user-friendly experience for purchasing mobile content through their mobile devices and July Systems is addressing these demands,” said Gigi Wang, SVP of Marketing & Alliances at July Systems. “We have been using Mobile Complete’s solutions for over three years and are continually benefiting from its remote access service to seamlessly showcase our products to our customers, providing them with the best possible interactive mobile experience.”
DeviceAnywhere’s customer adoption is being fueled by the following unique attributes:
- Real-time over-the-Internet interactive access to physical handsets through Mobile Complete’s patent-pending Direct-To-Device™ technology. This technology allows users to operate remote handsets, and provides access to all handset features as if these handsets were in the users’ hands.
- The broadest handset coverage in the industry, with upwards of 450 handsets already deployed, and more than 40 handsets, including several pre-commercial handsets, being added to the service each month – customers no longer have to purchase handsets or mobile service plans.
- Universal compatibility with all handsets from all manufacturers, running any platform/OS, on any global network.
- Rapid expansion to provide comprehensive global carrier coverage across multiple geographies – US, Canada, and UK already deployed, expansion into additional European and Asian networks throughout 2007.
“Mobile Complete quickly established an impressive and diverse portfolio of customers - all with the common goal of achieving superior product performance and elevating the mobile user experience,” said Julien Blin, Analyst, Wireless and Mobile Communications, IDC “This remarkably fast ramp rate is strong proof of customer and marketplace acceptance and proven product performance.”
Mobile Complete will exhibit CEMS at CTIA Wireless (booth #832, Hall A), March 27-29, 2007 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.
About Mobile Complete
Mobile Complete offers solutions for managing mobile handset proliferation. Its unique Direct-to-Device™ technology provides access to and interaction with real mobile devices connected to live global networks. The Internet brings these remote devices and networks directly to users’ desktops. Through a simple desktop interface, users can press device buttons, view LCD displays and listen to ringers and speakers.
Overwhelmed by the diversity of handsets? Need to test your mobile applications and services on foreign handsets and networks? Want to share your handsets with the global developer community? With our DeviceAnywhere™ suite of products, you can create a virtual development and testing lab for your global developer community. Your handsets, connected to live networks, will become accessible to developers from everywhere in the world.
For more information visit www.mobilecomplete.com and www.deviceanywhere.com.
Press contacts:
Leila Modarres
Mobile Complete PR
Office: 650-655-6433
cell: 650-455-9623
lmodarres@mobilecomplete.com
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