Daily News 2005/06/21

Wireless network opened for the third party to provide value-added service

It's reported that Sprint and Verizon will allow the subscribers to get access to the content of the third party to download ring and pictures
in the last year, operators begun to provide off-portal and this business increased by 410%. In the past half a year, the sales of off-portal service increased by about 1024% and the monthly business income increased by 141%. However, in America there are only 10% of the wireless content is provided by non-telecom operators, while in Europe, 80% of the mobile content is provided by off-portal.

Shanghai Pacific-Antai Life Insurance adopting NICE recording system to improve customer management

Established on October 16 of 1998, Shanghai Pacific-Antai Life Insurance Co. Ltd is a joint venture with significant influence in China
Headquarter in Israel, NICE s a world leader in recording system, and also a pioneer in customer management. This is the first step made by NICE toward to field of insurance.

Avaya leading the Asia-pacific IP voice telecom market

· IP telecom award granted by Frost & Sullivan
· Income from Asia-pacific IP voice telecom market increased by over 200% than that of the same period of last year

Avaya (NYSE: AV), the world leading provider of enterprise telecom applications, system and services, announced recently that it had gained the "2004 IP voice telecom awards" granted by Frost & Sullivan. Meanwhile, it takes the lead on the market with a market share of 27.1% in 2004. Its close competitor lost 11% of the market share in the same period. Avaya took lead in 8 of the 13 countries in this region.

Frost & Sullivan says that in the past four years, Avaya has shown its power on IP voice telecom market. Take 2004 as an example, the business income of Avaya from IP voice telecom service in the Asia-pacific region increased from 76 million USD (last year) to 172 million USD. This significant increase leads to the leading position of the company in this field. Besides, the measures it took for intelligent telecom attracted more attention for it.