Implementing Value-Added Telecom Services (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580539784)

Value-added services - messaging, mobile-commerce, location services, content provisioning - are the moneymakers in today's telecommunications market. This timely resource explains how a company can commercially offer these services without having to own its own telecommunications network. The book examines all the relevant technologies that enable these services and covers important business and marketing models. It details how to offer pre-paid calling over a third party's network or the Internet and explains the messaging market and how to develop and to market text, video, and instant messaging services. This comprehensive reference covers critical content delivery techniques and technologies, as well as the methods for charging customers for each type of content delivery. Moreover, the book shows how best to exploit a variety of location techniques to become a location service provider.

Author: Johan Zuidweg,Han Zuidweg
ISBN-10: 1580539785
ISBN-13: 9781580539784
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2006
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.32w x 0.73d