WAP Billing in Colombia launched
Bogota. Following the successful launch of our Reverse Billing platform (MT and MO) on multiple tariffs with the three operators in Colombia, PervasiveEdge have launched WAP Billing with Movistar and Tigo. Negotiations with Comcel for a similar implementation are under way.
CNN Traveller
London. PervasiveEdge have launched a new subscription website for Turner Broadcasting's CNN Traveller magazine. Our proprietary credit card processing application handles Visa, Mastercard and Amex worldwide in multiple currencies.
The Seagrave Road office is thrilled about our new half-Mini-Cooper-sofa. Even the lights work!
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CNN is one of the world's most respected and trusted sources for news and information. With extensive newsgathering resources, CNN provides up-to-the minute, accurate news to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. CNN Mobile Breaking News Alerts, a subscription service launched in 2002, delivers text alerts directly to mobile phones whenever a significant story breaks.
PervasiveEdge provides a fully hosted and managed system to CNN, which allows it to concentrate on its core competence: content creation. In addition to the flagship Breaking News category (4 regional editions, in English and Arabic), end users can select from different Headline News categories (regional and financial news, sports, weather), which are delivered at the times of the day chosen by the subscriber. The service is available in over 130 countries on all continents and attracts very positive feedback from its subscribers. Monthly fees are mostly paid by credit card, but in selected countries reverse billing is available.
For more details go to www.cnn.com/mobile
Aljazeera Satellite Channel (JSC) is the leading international Arabic language provider of news, information, and current affairs, broadcasting almost globally 24-hours a day.
During the Iraq war, PervasiveEdge provided Aljazeera with a robust (and hacker-proof) full service application which allowed the Doha, Qatar based company to keep their subscribers informed of relevant developments in the war, in both English and Arabic. The entire system was set up for this customer in just 4 days, including the sign up site in two very different languages, and using both ISO 8859-1 and Unicode. Until well after the war, the mobile news platform provided by PervasiveEdge was the only English language outlet for Al Jazeera's original content.
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This project is unusual for us in that we actually obtained the rights for the content ourselves and we control how it is marketed. After our Colombian sister company Pervasive Edge Colombia signed an agreement with the Colombian FA to market all mobile football results for all the Colombian clubs of the first and second division, we teamed up with the local operators (Comcel, part of Telmex, Telefonica's Movistar and Tigo) to market and distribute the content.
This project has shown the efficacy of database marketing after we gained 45,000 new subscribers in the first two weekends from the launch of the campaign. It's currently going from strangth to strength.
The local website is rather basic as most signups are via MO and WAP, but you can have a look at www.marcadoresfutbol.com
B.A.R. was one of the major success stories of the 2004 season, finishing 2nd only to Ferrari. The B.A.R.f1.com SMS Service supplied by PervasiveEdge during that season was the only global and independent mobile race results service of any Formula 1 team and gave their fans a chance to stay close to their favourite team through driver and team communications as well as general F1 news. Since Honda's increased involvement in the running of the team, they will now use their existing SMS services set up and cannot use PervasiveEdge's services this year.
PervasiveEdge provided a full service, hosting sign-up site, databases, payment facilities, customer support and content delivery interfaces. Results were obtained from ESA via automated XML feeds, while B.A.R. team members and journalists had a web based data entry client that can be accessed conveniently from wherever the action was taking place.
When Honda took over the team, the service was replaced by the car manufacturer's internal supplier.
Crash.net is the leading independent global motosports portal covering 29 national and international motorsports categories from Formula One and World Superbikes to NASCAR and MotoGP. Through Crash's websites, fans can access race results, news and images in English, Portuguese and Japanese.
PervasiveEdge provided a fully managed but Crash-branded mobile content area that allows subscribers to stay up to date with their favourite championships in a timely manner. This was of particular value to the fans of motorsports categories that do not receive the pervasive level of media coverage that, for example, Formula One enjoys.
CNN Traveller is a subscription based magazine published by Turner Broadcasting. Pervasive Edge provide the subscription website and credit card payment processing.
Tempos21 is a major Wireless-ASP based in Spain and represents a joint venture between Ericsson, HP and the national operator, Telefonica.
PervasiveEdge provide international distribution of text messages outside Spain, mainly in relation to opt-in marketing campaigns.
See www.tempos21.es
PervasiveEdge have a range of customers for it's pSender tool, allowing them to manage their marketing, communications and political campaigns, as well as their internal communication. Customers include night club and DJ promoters (Vertigo London, Qaraj) who promote their guest list and events, Colombian politicians and FMCG companies.
This somewhat unusual project was launched in association with the Colombian charity Corporacion Matamoros and benefits victims of Colombias struggle with guerillas, paramilitaries and drug mafias among the armed forces.
To contribute, please go to www.lapaginadelmillondedolares.com.co
