Visto Launches Mass Market Mobile E-Mail With Turkcell
Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push mobile e-mail, today announced that Turkcell, the largest mobile communications operator in Turkey, has deployed Visto Mobile with ConstantSync technology to deliver mass market push mobile e-mail services to a customer's wireless device of choice.
Called TurkcellE-Postaci, the new service is a personal mobile e-mail service aimed at mobile phone users. By simply downloading the push e-mail application from the Turkcell website, customers using POP3 e-mail services will immediately be able to send and receive e-mail on their chosen mobile device.
Visto's solutions support the widest range of handsets, allowing Turkcell to offer e-mail across all popular phone platforms, including Symbian S60, S80 and UIQ as well as Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC. The versatility of the Visto Mobile platform enables Turkcell to extend business- class push-based mobile e-mail to the mass market at an affordable price on a compelling choice of devices.
"With more than 26 million, IT-literate, information hungry and youthful voice and data customers who regard e-mail and their mobile phone as their most important means of communication, being able to offer a service as dynamic as TurkcellE-Postaci is important to us" said Cenk Serdar, Chief Value Added Services Officer of Turkcell. "By working closely with Visto to develop TurkcellE-Postaci, we have successfully combined mobile phones and e-mail on one device at an attractive price for our customers."
Visto -- fast becoming the leading provider of secure push-based mobile e-mail -- already provides business-focused mobile mail services across Europe, USA and Asia through major agreements with the Vodafone Group, Sprint- Nextel, and Rogers Wireless among others.
"Turkcell's mass market strategy demonstrates just how far mobile e-mail has evolved in the past 12 months," said Brian Bogosian, chairman, president and CEO of Visto, welcoming Turkcell's move to extend mobile e-mail beyond the large enterprise market. "Mobile operators like Turkcell have their hand on the pulse of the mobile market and understand that mobile e-mail should be made available to all levels of user. Visto has torn down the barriers to mobile e-mail adoption by offering users ease-of-use, an open systems approach and more choice. As a result, we have empowered the mobile operator to reach all corners of the market with a true push e-mail service that addresses a mobile user's business and personal requirements."
"In America, in Europe, and in Asia, Visto is being chosen by the market- leading operators as the mobile e-mail platform of choice."
Visto Mobile is a secure, wireless e-mail/PIM service delivery platform for all popular intelligent mobile devices. Visto Mobile works in real time with leading e-mail solutions from personal to enterprise, providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator, and choice for the mobile customer.
About Visto Mobile with ConstantSync
Visto Mobile is Visto's carrier-grade platform for wireless access to
corporate and personal e-mail, calendar, contacts and other corporate data.
Visto Mobile utilizes ConstantSync, a real-time push technology that
ensures valuable corporate data is always up to date and never stored outside
the firewall. The complete platform comprises server, desktop, and device
software, providing a complete mobile e-mail/PIM solution for wireless
operators to rapidly deploy as their uniquely branded solution for their
subscribers. The platform provides push e-mail delivery to any mobile device
over 2.5G and 3G networks, FIPS 140-compliant, end-to-end AES encryption and
an optimized network architecture that requires only 20 percent of the
bandwidth of SyncML or IMAP-based solutions. Visto's solutions work on the
broadest set of wireless devices that include Treo600/650 with PalmOS,
Microsoft Smart Phone devices, Microsoft PPC integrated communications
devices, Sony-Ericsson P900/P910 with Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, S80 devices
from Nokia and Java enabled devices.
About Visto
Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide
wireless push e-mail to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto's open
solution enables e-mail for the mass market, targeting large enterprises,
small businesses, mobile professionals and consumers. The company's patented
Visto Mobile platform with ConstantSync technology works in real time
with POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino e-mail solutions for
personal to enterprise use, providing maximum control and flexibility for the
operator and choice for the customer. Visto's customized, brandable solutions
are available through mobile operators worldwide including Cingular, Elisa,
KPN, Rogers Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone, SFR, Sprint-Nextel, TELUS
Mobility and the Vodafone Group.
Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, London, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or e-mail sales@visto.com.