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Gitex Technology Week 2011 Photos

2011-10-21T13:48:00.000-07:00

Thank you for all those who attended Gitex Technology Week 2011 and visited out booth.
It was a great success!

http://www.gitex.com/

Savings of up to 85% on all roaming international calls!

2011-09-13T11:59:00.000-07:00

RoamFone Rental Service and SuperSIM service for the Business or Leisure Travelers

Savings of up to 85% on all roaming international calls

Specially designed for offer and provision through Travel Agency, Car Rental Agency and Hospitality Places

Excellent Service at Great Savings, When You Need It !

Ecocarrier Inc. will present at CeBIT 2011 RoamFone Rental Service ( www.roamfonerental.com ) which is based on SuperSIM SIM Card and SuperSIM Service ( www.multisupersim.com )

RoamFone Rental Service caters to the needs of GSM mobile users when they travel abroad away from the home country mobile network in any of some 200 countries for a convenient, reliable, high quality, affordable, low-cost way of making and receiving telephone calls

RoamFone Rental Service addresses a market niche in ways that result in great benefits to all parties concerned: the End User (Service Subscriber), the Travel Agent, the Master Travel Agent and the Service Provider (Ecocarrier); there is sufficient profit margin to allow for a fair and attractive sharing of the profits in the food chain.

The over all profit margin for the resellers (Master Travel Agent and the Travel Agent) ranges from 35% - 50% of the prices/rates paid by the End Users which are some 55% - 85% lower than the rates charged by the MNO (Mobile Network Operator) for roaming calls.

Excellence in Concept, Design, Service and Business Model

(a) Complete on-line operation that requires little or no special training/learning on the part of the Travel Agent. www.roamfonerental.com enables all the operations covering opening a rental contract, invoicing, credit top up, final billing, closing of a rental contract and payment processing etc. to be performed on-line by the Travel Agent by making keystrokes into the Roamfone Rental Program software. All the Travel Agent needs is the ability to operate a browser on line in an intuitive manner.

(b) Complete Management Facility is available to the Master Travel and/or the Master Reseller on line for obtaining Call Data, Billing Data, Account Information in a highly efficient manner for administration and management purposes.

(c) No investment in system hardware and little investment in RoamFone (depending on the business arrangement between Ecocarrier and the Travel Agent). Ordinarily, the Travel Agent needs only to have the use a PC installed with a browser (Internet Explorer). Where required, Ecocarrier offers API to the Master Travel Agent for integration of the Calls Data, Billing Data and Account Information etc. with the Master Travel Agent/Reseller' own accounting data base.

(d) High quality reliable phone call termination service. All calls are switched and routed through premium service routes. Ecocarrier is a Canadian licensed operator for international telephone service provision to resellers of Ecocarrier’s managed (retail) services in more than 75 countries worldwide and to carriers for wholesale call termination services, Currently Ecocarrier handles more than 40 million minutes of call traffic monthly.

(e) RoamFone Rental Service as part of Ecocarrier's telephone services is provided with customer and technical support from Ecocarrier’s Network Operation Centers across various time zones 24x7x365

Excellence in Technology and Service System

(a) RoamFone Rental Service is equipped with SuperSIM card and SuperSIM service. SuperSIM is a 3G (64K) Multi-IMSI-SIM that has embedded in it profiles of multiple MNO. The SIM automatically switches the appropriate profiles for use when it is roaming in a certain country.

(b) SuperSIM is supported by GSM roaming agreement with more than 500 GSM operators in some 200 countries covering all the countries where one would want to visit for business or leisure. There is no need to change SIM when roaming in any of the MNO networks and the connection to the MNO is automatically made in any of the 200 countries.

+ < telephone number including country code >

All call making and receiving operation by SuperSIM is carried in a manner that is transparent to the user by Ecocarrier’s service platform working in conjunction with the global GSM network

· Receiving calls in some 70 countries is free of charge.

· connection to certain MNO network that applies large Mobile Termination Charge can be selectively blocked as an effective means of achieving optimal savings

(d) SuperSIM service is enhanced with unique call handling operation to ensure that it is able to always achieve the low-rates for making a telephone call or for receiving an incoming call including making and receiving calls in a hotel room in any of the 200 countries.

SuperSIM works with USSD signaling for triggering a “Call Party A and then Call Party B and then Connect the 2 Parties” operation for call making a call. The Connection or bridging of the 2 legs of a Call is made in Ecocarrier’s Service Platform to enable a telephone conversation.

In “Call Party A and then Call Party B and then Connect the 2 Parties” mode of operation, the Party A may be the telephone number of a local fixed line telephone (as in the case of a hotel room phone) or a local SIM in a dual-SIM mobile handset and the Party B is the Destination Number (i.e. the telephone number of the party to be called). Note that receiving a call with a local SIM in most countries is FREE and receiving calls with a fixed line telephone is FREE in all countries. In using thie mode of operation, the user can avoid paying Mobile Termination Charge when roaming in MNO network that imposes a Mobile Termination Charge.

The call is dialed or sent as

+< Telephone No. of fixed line phone or local SIM >*< Destination Number >

for further additional calls, the call can be dialed simply as

+< Destination Number >

All call making and call receiving are carried out by/through Ecocarrier’s service platform working in conjunction with the global GSM network

(e) Special mode of operation when making calls in a hotel room

In the case of making call in a hotel room , the dialing format is

+< Telephone No. of the hotel >*< hotel room no. >*< Destination Number >

for further additional calls, the call can be dialed simply as

+< Destination Number >

Upon receiving the signaling, Ecocarrier SuperSIM Service Platform will call the hotel telephone no. and when the hotel telephone operator answers the call, the Service Platform will voice the following call routing request:

“ Please connect this call to < hotel room no. > for < name of the user > “

Note that the name of the user is pre-recorded and stored in the Service Platform, whereas the hotel room no. may vary according to the ‘values entered in the trigger message

+< Telephone No. of the hotel >*< hotel room no. >*< Destination Number >

This facility is a great cost savings feature because ordinarily making calls from a hotel room telephone is expensive even for local call in most countries.

(f) Alias Telephone Number to MSISDN (the regular mobile number of the SIM)

Alias telephone number can be assigned to the SuperSIM in the RoamFone to suit the country of operation of the Travel Agent.

The Alias telephone number is a DID (Direct Inward Dial) number of the local telephone exchange.

Before the user travels abroad to a country where receiving an incoming call to the SuperSIM is FREE or at low cost, he/she will arrange to forward all calls dialed to his/her fixed line telephone number and local mobile number to this Alias.

DID Numbers for such Alias application are available for some 500 cities of 65 countries.

Each Alias Telephone Number is quarantined for a period of 30 days after each rental contract to a rental customer before being put back into the pool of available DID Numbers for use by RoamFone Rental Service.

Ecocarrier www.ecocarrier.com is a carrier and a facilities-based service provider of managed services for voice, text and data communications and a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler offering low-cost GSM roaming services to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and their resellers in worldwide markets.

Ecocarrier supports a global network of resellers in some 85 countries worldwide providing reliable high quality features-rich and value-enhanced services to more than 2,000,000 users.

Prepaid Card for Airtime Credit Transfer Service Gift-to-Call Card™

2011-09-01T11:24:00.001-07:00

Prepaid Card for Airtime Credit Transfer Service

Gift-to-Call Card™

- offering great convenience and savings

Airtime Credit Transfer Service is fast becoming popular among the migrant and expatriate communities in industrialized countries for one to send a small gift (usually $5 to $10) of love or care to loved ones back home in old country in the form of an Airtime Credit Amount to the recipient’s mobile number account. The recipient is notified of the credit amount by the mobile operator the instant when it arrives and he/she can use it to call the sender or anyone else.

This way of gifting is immediate and gives instant gratification.

This TopUp360 Gift-to-Call ™ Service also has the advantage of achieving savings of 50% or greater. For instance, a call from Haiti to USA or Canada costs less than 50% of what it costs to call from USA/Canada to Haiti. The same is true with Guatemala and Jamaica and many other countries.

TopUp360 have made a good thing better. They have introduced a Prepaid Card for Airtime Credit Transfer Service named Gift-to-Call Card™ that is available in $5, $10 and $15 version.

You can buy Gift-to-Call Card™ of a certain credit amount and use part of it at a time to send as small gift of airtime credit to someone’s mobile number account in some 72 countries by simply sending a text message in a certain pre-defined format that includes the PIN (you get this from the Card), the credit amount you want to gift and the recipient’s mobile number.

PIN holder can register at www.topup360.com as user and get account information and do credit top-up and purchases on line.

It is a Great Way to Gift !

Ecocarrier is a carrier and facilities-based service provider of managed services for voice, text and data communications and a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) offering low-cost GSM roaming services to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and their resellers in worldwide markets. www.ecocarrier.com

Ecocarrier supports a global network of resellers in some 85 countries worldwide providing reliable high quality value-added services to more than 2,000,000 users.

Affordable Mobile Roaming Voice and Data Service for iPhone, Blackberry, Smartphones, iPAD etc.

2011-08-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

Affordable Mobile Roaming Voice and Data Service for

iPhone, Blackberry, Smartphones, iPAD etc.

Ecocarrier introduces a truly wholesome solution/service that enables you to use your 3G mobile devices in-country or while roaming for emailing and browsing at extremely low cost for data service; per MegaByte data transfer at prices ranging from US$0.54 to US$1.99 for use in some 39 countries. You can achieve savings of as much as 90%.

You can use their MData service with the MData SIM as a standalone SIM, as a Dongle pre-installed with it or as a clear device named MiWiFiLAN pre-installed with it; MiWiFiLAN is a 3G Access Device with built-in WiFi-LAN capability.

With MiWiFiLAN, you can create your own WiFi LAN with broadband service through 3G network anywhere for use it with your 3G mobile handsets without replacing the SIM in them.

Ecocarrier has Mobile Dialer Apps that does encrypted IP telephony using less than 100 Kbytes of data transfer per minute of a SIP call of excellent service voice quality.

The total cost (taking into account the cost of Internet access through MData SIM service and the cost of call termination through premium service carrier) of a one minute call from any EU country to USA would cost less than US$0.08 per minute. That is the cost of a one minute call made when one is Mobile Roaming in the EU countries!

Ecocarrier will also intro a One-Account-for-ALL WiFi Hotspot Service that works in more than 250,000 Hotspots in some 130 countries with high level of security embedded in the service operation.

Ecocarrier is a carrier and facilities-based service provider of managed services for voice , text and data communications and a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) offering low-cost GSM roaming services to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and their resellers in worldwide markets. www.ecocarrier.com

Ecocarrier supports a global network of resellers in some 85 countries worldwide providing reliable high quality value-added services to more than 2,000,000 users.

ITEXPO West 2011 Exhibitor Interview Q&A

2011-08-05T11:35:00.000-07:00

Given by Carl KS Teo, President, Ecocarrier Inc. to www.TMCNET.com

ITEXPO West 2011 Austin

Exhibitor Q&A

Name: Carl KS Teo
Company: Ecocarrier Inc.
Title: President

1. How has your market segment evolved over the past year and what trends have fueled those changes?

[CKST] We operate in the telephone service provision space as service provider and carrier for both

(a) wholesale carrier services to Tier1 and Tier2 carriers for call termination by direct routes to countries in Africa and China and

(b) retail telephone services by way of managed services through a network of resellers in worldwide countries markets

In the past year, the contraction of the global economy coupled with the oversupply of network capacity and the increasing number of new players in the space have caused a sharp decline in the per minute rates for call termination to almost all dialcodes. This has resulted in a reduction in overall revenue and profit in absolute amounts.

3G data service for access to the Internet and WiFi hotspots are becoming widely available in all industrialized countries and even in countries with emerging markets. With it a new opportunity has emerged for the introduction of IP based voice services and low-cost data service to cater to the needs of users of iPhone, Blackberry and Smartphones in the mobile roaming mode.

The advent of Apps for any imaginable applications and facility has fueled the demand for more bandwidth and great volume of data transfer in all situations worldwide.

2. What do you see as the next disruptive force in technology and how will it impact your market or business?

[CKST] The next disruptive technology in the ICT space for applications, that cater to certain practical business and personal requirement, is/will be one that makes operations and services run more time and cost efficiently without requiring the build-out of new infrastructure. It has to be better software and not more hardware or new hardware.

There are great possibilities for such development: one of them is to make web- conferencing and collaboration software run with TV set-top boxes and broadband data services now available to the homes to make use of the large LCD or Plasma screens in the homes for display.

We are working on such a project.

3. How has the acceptance and adoption of the cloud model influenced your development cycle and process?

[CKST] We have been doing Cloud Computing in the form of (Service) Platform as a service P-a-a-S since 2003 in offering our IP-based telephone service provision in a Managed Service model to resellers of our various services in worldwide markets.

We are working on development project that makes use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service to cut short development cycle and to cut back on development costs.

We have developed and are providing facility that is Cloud Computing in the form of Infrastructure-as-a-Service to various strategic partners in providing direct routes for call termination in various countries.

What is the most common request you are seeing from your customers? How is your company addressing these demands?

[CKST] Better service at low costs/rates. We strive to meet such demand by managing various moving parts, namely

(a) Better technology – faster operation that requires less bandwidth

(b) Data service at lowest possible cost per MegaByte of data transfer – service offer made in cooperation with Mobile Network Operator able to provide such data service at the desired low cost

(c) Better enabling devices that requires little or no change in the way the user currently uses their mobile station devices – mobile handsets that are “locked” to using the SIM and service of a certain mobile operator who offer the mobile handset to the user at greatly subsidized reduced low price.

4. How is the continued growth of social media changing service and product development strategies?

[CKST] Our products, solutions and services must now be able to take advantage of the various social media and network for efficient distribution and business propagation.

Our business development and technology development effort are guided by this requirement.

5. Will Google+ become bigger than Facebook and Twitter? Why or why not?

[CKST] Yes. Google+ will become bigger than Facebook and Twitter. The large following of Google will enable Google+ to catch up with Facebook and Twitter on a fast track and many Facebook and Twitter users would want to take advantage of the many more service and software facilities that Google can offer as part of the integration of Google+ with rest of Google’s vast resources.

6. As businesses continue their move toward virtual workforces, how are you meeting the need for increased mobility? What barriers are keeping others from adopting mobile strategies?

[CKST] There is increasingly a demand for low-priced affordable mobile in-country and mobile roaming data and voice services that are easy for adoption and simple to use. We provide both the solution and the data transport service at extremely low price per MegaByte of data transfer in a pay-per-use billing model.

Such data transport service enables the end user to continue to use their iPhone, Blackberry and Smartphone for email and browsing without suffering exorbitant high-cost of Internet data service through 3G mobile network

We have developed mobile dialer app that is complete with effective data encryption and optimized for byte saving in doing IP telephony.

The needs for low-cost Internet access for data transfer and voice communication while mobile roaming of the mobile worker / actor of today are now met to a large extent with our solution and services.

7. How do you see the mobile operating system war (iPhone vs. Android vs. RIM vs. WM7) playing out?

[CKST] Each of the Mobile OS has certain intrinsic functionality that is designed for addressing and catering to certain kinds of users in a certain market/application space.

In the final analysis, the war is won by virtue of one’s overall business strategy for product development and distribution. The design of the mobile OS can be a limiting factor or an advantage in enabling and achieving a successful business strategy.

8. Is HTML5 the game changer many predict it will be?

[CKST] HTML5 can very well be the game changer, considering the increasing importance of the mobile culture in all realms of human activity. It is a safe prediction - at least for now.

9. What are you most looking forward to at ITEXPO West in Austin? What do you see as being the biggest trends at the show?

[CKST] The showing will all be trending towards innovations in technology, application, infrastructure and managed services that support the mobile actors and mobile roaming actors for their business and personal needs.

10. Who should visit your booth at ITEXPO and why?

Everyone attending ITEXPO West 2011 should visit our stand to see what we have to offer in meeting the pre-requisite conditions for a successful mobile business for data and voice communication service catering to business and personal users.

The most important criteria are low affordable cost in terms of per MegaByte of data transfer and the ease of use and adoption by the user in all situations of mobile in-country and mobile roaming .

It includes

(a) Our MData SIM and service www.mbbod.com for extremely low cost data service for access to Internet via 3G network – offered to the End User in the form of a standalone SIM, as a Dongle pre-installed with the MData SIM and as MiWiFiLAN pre-installed with MData SIM; MiWiFiLAN is a 3G Access Device with built-in WiFi-LAN capability.

MData service offers low per MegaByte data transfer at prices ranging from US$0.54 to US$1.99 for use in some 39 countries (US$0.54 per MegaByte in USA; US$0.65 per MegaByte in Germany)

MiWiFiLAN enables the user to create a WiFi LAN that is connected to the Internet through 3G data service anywhere where 3G network is available.

The WiFi Internet service can be used by a small number of people using WiFi-enabled laptop, mobile handsets and tablets in the vicinity of the MiWiFiLAN unit for

o reading and sending emails,

o browsing on the www

o downloading of files

o making and receiving SIP calls – PC-to-Phone and MobileDialer-to-Phone calls

with softphone apps

Note that the user is not required to unlock their mobile station device (laptop, mobile handsets or tablet) or to have a 3G SIM installed in their mobile station device.

(b) A One-Account-for-ALL WiFi Hotspot Service that works in more than 180,000 Hotspots in some 130 countries with high level of security embedded in the service operation.

Service is billed per minute of Internet access through the registered Hotspot partner’s network. This facility is complementary to the low cost Internet access service provided by MData service through 3G network

(c) PC-to-Phone softphone app and MobileDialer-to-Phone App that are specially designed to do encrypted IP telephony (making and receiving SIP calls) with a remarkable service function for optimized bytes saving provided by Ecocarrier’s service platform. Ecocarrier has achieved a way to do encrypted IP telephony that uses less than 100 Kbytes of data transfer per minute of a SIP call of excellent service voice quality.

The economy in data transfer for SIP calls offers the best lowest-cost way of making and receiving international calls at the lowest per minute rates in some 39 countries.

For instance, the total cost (taking into account the cost of Internet access through MData SIM service and the cost of call termination through premium service carrier) of a one minute call from any EU country to USA would cost less than US$0.08 per minute. That is the cost of a one minute call made when one is mobile roaming the EU countries!

Our RoamSim website will have new features!

2011-07-19T13:00:00.000-07:00

Our RoamSim website is getting a new fresh look and new features soon!

For our new audiences, here are some information on our extraordinary Roaming sim services:

PREPAID ROAMING SIM CARD

FOR VOICE, TEXT & DATA COMMUNICATION (various versions)

3G SIM supported by one of the world's largest mobile operators
One SIM for mobile roaming in 560+ mobile networks
Works in some 200 countries
Lowest costs & greatest savings on all mobile roaming calls
Premium high quality service
Free of charge when receiving incoming calls in 70+ countries
Save on every call up to 85%

YOU CAN WELL AFFORD IT!

Please visit our current website for more information, and remember to stay tuned to get the latest news on our roaming sim service!

http://www.roamsim.com/

TopUp360 - Our Newest Feature!

2011-07-12T07:16:00.000-07:00

Take a look at our newest feature: TopUp360!

TopUp360 is a AirTime Credit Transfer Service for you to use to send Credit Amount in Local Currency to Loved Ones back home in old country for them to use to make calls through their local mobile network to call you or others.
It is Safe, Easy to Use and Lowest Cost Way to send small amount of credit and it enables you and the loved ones to achieve additional great savings!

Video Presentation of Ecocarrier

2011-05-25T13:28:00.000-07:00

Ecocarrier was honoured with the Best International Business Award at the 15th annual Chinese Canadian Entrepreneur Awards Gala 2011.

Ecocarrier won Best International Business Award at the 15th annual Chinese Canadian Entrepreneur Awards

2011-04-05T12:02:00.000-07:00

2011-03-03T07:21:00.000-08:00

The MasterAgents Service Program for Prepaid PIN-less Telephone Service from EcoCarrier enables resellers to experience extensive growth by allowing them to construct a network of agents offering telephony service provision to end users.

With easy operation and optimal management efficiency, the MasterAgents Service Program carries out all operation and management activities through the MasgetAgents Service website.

The service features secured Web-based services for account set up in a matter of minutes, premium, reliable service, and guaranteed perceived lowest end user rates. With this solution, resellers own all the end user accounts they create, and they are able to pre-set sales commission percentages for agents in account creation.

On the side of the end user, the MasterAgents Service Program provides a Hot-line Calling Function for whenever the subscriber calls from any of the five pre-registered telephone numbers to the access number. The end user can register up to five of these numbers from which he or she can dial without having to enter a PIN.

With reliable, high-quality service at competitive per minute rates, users no longer need to remember complicated, extensive PINs or carry prepaid phone cards.

EcoCarrier recently presented at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona as well, discussing its services packages designed specifically for inbound, and outbound travelers, as well as students going abroad.

Ecocarrier Inc. www.ecocarrier.com at MWC 2011

2011-03-03T07:09:00.000-08:00

Ecocarrier will present at MWC 2011 various service packages designed specially for Inbound Travelers Outbound Travelers Corporate Road Warriors Students going abroad Expatriates on short stay.

The services are offered to end users through a network of resellers worldwide in managed service model and are based on RoamSIM, a singular 3G SIM with Multiple IMSI capable of assuming profiles of multiple MNOs, which has roaming support by 560 mobile operators in some 200 countries and enables the user to achieve savings of 55%-85% on all international calls and receive calls FREE of Charge in 70+ countries while mobile roaming and/or X-Dialer for Mobile-to-Phone for use with BLACKBERRY iPHONE Android Nokia Windows Mobile Mobile Handsets in either WiFi or 3G Data mode Complete with Premium Quality Service at Competitive Call Rates -- end user savings of 55%-90% On-screen Display of Call Data, Call Rates and Call History Private Label Production of service for Reseller gets appearance of original service provider reseller sets their own Sell Rates per dialcode in a granular fashion Unique MasterAgents Service Program for the fastest way to propagate the business network Ecocarrier is a carrier and facilities-based service provider of managed services for voice , text and data communications and a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler offering low-cost GSM roaming services to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and their resellers in worldwide markets.

Greening of Telecom Services

2011-02-11T07:46:00.000-08:00

A new theme of Ecocarrier Inc.’s business this year has to do with Green Steps that it has taken in making communications more ecologically friendly.

Ecocarrier’s business is making and offering telephone service provision as managed services to end users through a network of resellers worldwide. This business model itself is green as far as the environment is concerned.

Managed services are provided from Ecocarrier's service platform on the Internet to the resellers who need only to have the use of an Internet browser to operate their local or regional or global business in an effective and efficient manner; the resellers do not need to invest in hardware other than the PC or Laptops needed for logging on to the web servers of Ecocarrier's service platform. The reduction in hardware requirement has a great effect in reducing the burden to the environment in the way of toxic waste and carbon foot-print.

Ecocarrier has launched 2 new kinds of service program that are directly effective towards achieving the greening objective:

Ecocarrier's MasterAgents Service Program for Prepaid PIN-less Telephone Service

The PIN-less operation completely eliminates the need to use a plastic or paper card for recording the PIN (Personal Identification Number) - reducing carbon footprint and saving trees.
Ecocarrier's Web-Conferencing Service complete with collaborative and visual capability is marketed under the label Eco123 in cooperation with VIA3.

This service is voted the best-of-breed and best-of-class among services of its kind for its superior security features and completeness of functional features that are reasonably required/expected for/of an effective business communication solution.

The use of such a service greatly reduces the need to travel across town, country or the globe and thus eliminating the carbon footprint that is relative to such travel.

Ecocarrier is a carrier and facilities-based service provider of managed services for voice , text and data communications and a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler offering low-cost GSM roaming services to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and their resellers in worldwide markets. www.ecocarrier.com

Ecocarrier supports a global network of resellers in some 85 countries worldwide providing reliable high quality value-added services to more than 2,000,000 users.

Hosted VoIP - Managed Service Programs to Launch at ITEXPO East

2011-01-27T07:10:00.000-08:00

January 18, 2011
By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Technology trends shape much of what we do in our everyday lives, whether in business or personal endeavors. To determine what trends will emerge in 2011, it is necessary to revisit 2010 and learn from the past. According to Carl KS Teo, president and CEO of Ecocarrier (News - Alert), Inc., the significant technology trends in 2010 were enterprise social networking, public and private cloud computing, 360 security, the mobilization of the workforce, and more.

Teo recently participated in a TMCnet interview in anticipation of the upcoming ITEXPO East event. When asked about the impact of cloud computing on communications, Teo noted that it is a great leveler of the playing field for individuals and companies on the Internet throughout the world. As for the mobile winners in 2011, Teo believes the iPhone (News - Alert) will win in North America, while Android will lead globally.

When he was asked what format he reads his news, Teo noted he consumes his news digitally. He also believes tablets have great appeal for certain applications, yet he does not believe the usefulness will allow for a broad future. As for app stores and cloud computing, Teo believes they make the smartphone smarter and more useful. When asked about the impact of social media, Teo noted that customers are very much in charge and openness is important to success. His company has been using social networking internally with Eco123, which it also markets to customers. When asked about net neutrality, Teo highlighted that he agrees with the concept.

Teo was also asked about the greatest technological development in 2011, and he noted that he expects to see mobile broadband on demand made available to the user public at prices that are affordable in a number of countries. As for his upcoming appearance at ITEXPO (News - Alert), Teo participates because of the innovations in technologies, solutions, products and services. He also likes to meet with providers to identify partnering opportunities. Attendees should visit his booth to discover the comprehensive managed services that Ecocarrier delivers to resellers for peace of mind and additional revenue. Attendees will be presented with three managed service programs including a MasterAgent Service Program, MultiSuperSIM and Mobile Roaming Services Packages. More information on each is listed below.The entire conversation follows:

What was the most significant technology trend in 2010 and what impact will it have in 2011?

As far as business in the ICT space is concerned, the major significant technology trends in 2010 were enterprise social networking, public and private cloud computing, 360 security, mobilization of work force – from telework to telepresence, borderless business… the enterprise extended over the Internet, smart networks fueling smart economy, focus on green ob products, services, supply chain, etc., visual communication (seeing is believing) and machine-to-machine apps for use in wireless and mobile networks.

The overall impact or effect of these trends in 2011 and beyond will be in the generation of a greener, smarter, safer, friendlier, and more efficient global economy and a fairer, happier or less unhappy global community.

If I have to pick just one, it should be cloud computing, especially the public variety. This is, in fact, the nature of the business operation of the managed services that provide in service provision for voice, text and data communication.

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves the delivery of hosted services over the Internet. By and large, there are three categories of services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic -- a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider. The consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access.

We do Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

What impact will the continued growth of cloud computing have on the communications industry in 2011?

Cloud computing in the form of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a great leveler of the playing field for individuals and companies on the Internet in practically any country that want to be a service provider of services for voice, text, data communication and Web Conferencing in the telecom space. The globalization effect or impact of cloud computing in this regard is enormous.

The barrier to entry into the service provision business is now made very low by cloud computing. Already it has enabled many new entrants in the business and it will continue to foster more participants and greater sophistication in the kinds of service features being offered in various spheres of applications.

In 2011, there will be more proponents in service provision business resulting in greater competition and great value proposition to the public user of the services.

All these developments will be very good for the consumer.

Who will be the mobile winners in 2011 out of Google Android, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia (News - Alert) and RIM?

In 2011, in North America, the winner will be iPhone; globally, the winner will be smartphones that are compliant with Android OS.

In what format do you read your news and magazines (i.e., hard copy or digital)? Why?

Digital, mainly due to time constraints. I read the news as I scan my inbox for e-mail messages.

Are tablets really the future?

Tablets have great appeals for certain applications in business, education and personal recreation activity. But I think its application usefulness is not broad enough to make it the future.

Smartphone complemented with the increasingly large volume of apps trumps tablet even at tablet’s own game.

How will app stores change the future of computing?

Apps in app stores, especially the ones that work with cloud computing-based managed services, make smartphone smarter and more useful and make on-demand computing available to the user virtually anywhere.

What impact has social media had on how you interact with your customers? How do you measure its effectiveness?

Customers are now very much in charge. They can be heard around the globe and have an impact on a company, an institution or an organization in an instant.

People can find each other anywhere through social media and coalesce around you or against you.

“Markets are conversations." It is not marketing that we have to focus on. It is conversing that is important. Openness is important to the key to success.

Our efforts in implementation of marketing and business development and the measurement of their effectiveness with respect to social media are guided by the notions above stated.

How have you leveraged social networking as an internal collaboration tool?

For internal collaboration tool we use a Web Conferencing, webinar, collaboration tool that is based on a service platform that has been voted the best solution/service of its kind.

We resell the service under our own label Eco123 – a name specially chosen to highlight the fact that the service is ecologically friendly and easy to use as 123.

The use of Eco123 visual communications services reduces business travel across town, state, country or time zones and eliminates the carbon foot-print relative to the travels made unnecessary by the use of Eco123 service.

The FCC (News - Alert) recently voted to support net neutrality. Is net neutrality necessary, or will it present more challenges than it will solve?

The principle net neutrality states that if a given user pays for a certain level of Internet access, and another user pays for the same level of access, then the two users should be able to connect to each other at the subscribed level of access and I agree with it. The network service provider will have to figure out how to implement such principle and yet remain competitive in the marketplace.

What will be the greatest technological development in 2011? Why?

As far as Ecocarrier’s business and value proposition are concerned, we expect to see Mobile Broadband on Demand service to be made available to the user public at prices that are affordable in many more countries. This will be provided by 3G and 4G mobile network operators, not just the ones in the developed industrialized countries but also countries with emerging economy in Africa and Latin America. This will create an environment and ecosystem to speed up the adoption and propagation of the services for mobile commerce including mobile advertising, mobile payment and mobile conferencing services.

Users will increasingly demand that all communications – wireless, mobile, IP, TDM – must be implemented with acceptable level of security against intrusion of any kind in the wake of the recent publications by Wiki Leaks.

Why have you chosen to exhibit at ITEXPO East in Miami?

We have exhibited at ITEXPO East for many years now. It is a tradeshow where one would go to find innovations of technologies, solutions, products and services and meet with providers to talk business of becoming reseller for them. Visitors may be people from any country.

We hope to find/meet new prospects to be strategic partners or resellers for our various managed services that all have been proven good business propositions that have become successful business endeavors for many of our customers.

Today we have a network of resellers in some 85 countries.

What is the most important reason attendees should visit your booth at ITEXPO?

We offer truly comprehensive managed services, based on Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Computing, that delivers to the resellers:

Peace of Mind with our reliable, high quality services at competitive rates (prices) and excellent Network Operation Center (NOC) support services

Additional revenue steam that is derived from reselling services provided by us (Ecocarrier) for voice, text, and data communication and Web Conferencing that are in high demand in all countries.

What new and exciting products/solutions can we expect to see from your company in 2011?

At ITEXPO East 2011, we will present three outstanding managed service programs that, we are sure, will be great revenue generators for the resellers:

a) MasterAgents Service Program for Prepaid PIN-less Telephone Service

Ecocarrier’s MasterAgents Service Program for prepaid PIN-less telephone service allows a reseller to set up a network of Agents to offer telephone service provision to end users with ease and optimum operation and management efficiency. All operation and management activities are carried out in the MasterAgents Service Website. The master is the reseller; the agent may be an individual of a small retail outlet.

The outstanding features are:

* Important and useful to the Reseller and Agents
* Complete facility for on-line secured control and management for the provision of Agent accounts by the Reseller; an Agent account can be created in a matter of minutes
* Complete facility for on-line secured control and management for the opening PIN-less accounts for end user customers by the Agent – Agent can act within certain framework of financial control, that is configured in the MasterAgents Service Website by the Reseller, to create a PIN-less account and sell credit to cover the usage by the account for/to an end user customer without having to consult the Reseller; the Agent can do the transaction in a matter of minutes;

Note that there is no need to have any physical inventory of telephone cards

Versatile billing software capability of the MasterAgents Service Program enables the Reseller to create a billing regime, that is required in their business competitive environment, so as to present to the end users the appearance of the best deal for calling certain destination countries or dial-codes; possible configurations include:

(i) Setting end user rates for certain dial-codes, in a granular fashion, that are the lowest in the market place, (ii) setting of the minimum number of seconds/minutes per call for purpose of minimum billing (iii) setting of the number of seconds per increment after the initial minimum billing (iv) setting of connection fee (v) setting of daily maintenance fee (vi) defining the minute in terms of seconds and (vii) inflated announcement of available call duration

Note that such billing regime configuration must be solely the decision and discretion of the Reseller who is solely responsible for such action.

An end user who has opened an account with one Agent may afterwards purchase additional credit amount for topping the credit amount in the account from another Agent; in such a scenario both the Agents are rewarded for the sales of the credit top-up in the form of a sales commission at percentages that the Reseller can configure in the MasterAgents Service Website.

Note that an end user account, when it is opened, belongs to the Master (i.e. the Reseller).

This is important to the end-user because:

* Reliable, high-quality service at competitive per minute rates for making local, national and international calls;
* No need to remember a 12-digit PIN or carry a prepaid telephone card with a PIN
* No risk of losing the PIN or the prepaid calling card with the PIN and losing the remaining credit in the account
* End user/subscriber can register up to five telephone numbers – fixed line or mobile – from which he/she can make telephone calls without having to enter PIN. Note: the Agent can register the five telephone numbers for the end user at the time of setting up the account;
* Hot-line Calling Function that can be configured on-line by Agent for the subscriber for calling a Hotline Number at the time of account set up. Whenever the subscriber call from any of the 5 pre-registered telephone numbers to the access number, the call is automatically connected to the Hotline Number.

This facility enables the reseller to propagate their business worldwide effectively and efficiently in managed service model.

(b) MultiSuperSIM (labeled variously as SuperSIM, ShuttleSIM and RoamSIM)

MultiSuperSIM is a multiple-personality SIM. It has multiple International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). It can be loaded/programmed with up to 256 IMSI, if necessary. Each IMSI is for a special purpose.

In its basic form MultiSuperSIM has 3 IMSI: one for it to do mobile roaming worldwide with the roaming support of some 560 Mobile Network Operators (MNO) of some 200 countries. It comes with a UK (+44) mobile telephone number and offers a host of cost-saving advantages (savings of 55 to 90 percent and great convenience features.

Another is for it to assume the profile of a local MNO in the USA which allows it to make international calls at extremely low cost rates while roaming in the USA. It comes with a USA (+1) mobile telephone number.

Yet another is for it to use data service at exceptionally low cost rates while mobile roaming in some 130 countries.

Special versions of the MultiSuperSIM have additional IMSI for it to assume the profile of MNOs of various other countries thus giving the users some added advantages for achieving even greater savings in making international calls when mobile roaming in certain countries.

Ecocarrier has a strategic alliance program that offers cooperation with MNOs of various countries to incorporate their IMSI in MultiSuperSIM for use by customers of MultiSuperSIM in joint marketing program that generates a great deal of additional revenues and profits to the cooperating MNOs.

(c) Mobile Roaming Service Packages

Ecocarrier’s mobile roaming SIMs and the relative services are designed for use by people who are mobile roaming – meaning they are away from or outside the mobile network of the Mobile Network Operator whose service they subscribe to normally. These people are therefore travelers or visitors to a foreign land or country for a short stay that ranges from a few days to a few months.

They can be grouped in various categories, namely:

* Outbound travelers who go abroad to travel for business or for leisure as tourists;
* Inbound travelers who arrive in a country from a foreign land/country to travel or tour the country of visit;
* Students who go abroad to another country to attend schools, training or learning classes for education or edification;
* Personnel of corporation as Road Warriors who are on an assignment or mission to do certain tasks in a foreign land/country.

Ecocarrier has designed service packages that cater to the above-mentioned kinds of target users of the mobile roaming service to meet their need for voice, text and data communication while traveling or mobile roaming.

The value proposition that Ecocarrier offers to them are the consistently high quality service at low prices that represent savings of 55 to 90 percent and useful enhanced service features that include:

* On-demand on-line viewing of usage data and billing information;
* On-line credit charge up, credit top-up scratch cards;
* Alias personal telephone numbers available in/of some 550 cities of 65 countries worldwide – a great convenience feature that they can use to offer to the persons important to them or their business to call them by simply dialing a local telephone number.

(d) MData Service

MData is a Mobile Broadband on Demand prepaid service. It is available to the end user either as a standalone product or as part of Ecocarrier’s X-Dialer service package.

This unique plug and play data card product with over-the-air activation is very simple to use and is an ideal product/service package that any reseller in the ICT space can carry as part of their product/service line.

MData Service provides an easy way for individuals to access the Sprint mobile broadband network at their convenience. The solution is ideal for those who have infrequent or sporadic need for internet access when mobile.

It is complete with the following flexible, convenience features. The end user can:

* Buy MData service off the shelf of a reseller
* Activate that data card over-the-air
* Select a specific data plan/Change their data plan
* Buy additional MB when needed
* Pay with credit card through Paypal on-line payment processing service
* MData offers users an easy, economical way to access the Sprint 3G network in the USA when they need it, for as long as they need it.

(e) Eco123 Web Conferencing Service

Eco123 is an excellent Web Conferencing tool provided as managed service that possesses the following attributes on:

Security

ECO123 utilizes full AES 128-bit encryption combined with 1024 Bit AES Encryption to ensure all voice, video, and data are 100% secure. ECO123 is the only web based video conferencing tool to be fully certified to meet the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, Level 1. During the product conception phase, the developers were determined to make the security architecture the basis for the entire implementation. By building the security into the product from the beginning,we avoided the compromises necessary when trying to add security to an existing product. ECO123 is easily enhanced by adding new features, which will then sit atop the security architecture. ECO123 is designed to operate as either a service running off of our corporate servers or as an On Premises solution installed on the client’s servers.

Audio and Video Quality - If members cannot be seen or heard...what is the point?

ECO123 offers clear CD quality sound and crisp high definition video imaging. Highly intuitive tools are built in to the product to allow all users to test and fine-tune both the audio and the video to meet their individual needs

(iii) Ease of Installation and Use - How much time and money is wasted when a Web Conferencing product takes longer to install and learn how to operate than conducting an actual meeting?

ECO123 is a single download solution for the entire suite of features. Many other products require multiple downloads of different modules and network add-ons to achieve the same full featured delivery of ECO123's all-inclusive software. ECO123 encourages potential clients to review our installation guide and training guides. We actually utilize these materials as a large part of our marketing materials. One of our most successful installations consists of 500 users, all with disparate technical skills….installed and trained by a single individual, in conjunction with our client support staff!

(iv) Customer Support Services – Where is the support when you need it?

ECO123 offers support through numerous ways. Not only are we fully staffed in the United States, our customer support staff can be reached by phone, email, and even instantaneously through our secure instant messaging feature…. built right into the ECO123 product. There is no monthly or annual support fee. From product demonstration to installation and beyond, all support services are fully available at no additional charge.

(v) Depth of Features – What is the true cost of more features?

Since ECO123 includes everything in a single download, one never has to worry about the scalability of the product. If you do not need a feature, you simply do not use it. However, if ever you need a feature (e.g., Instant Messaging or Workspaces for real-time sharing of secure files) it is there. Again, this is all included by default, at a single price, whereas other products require extra downloads and configurations to expand the product features to meet an organization’s ever changing needs.

Price

At $29.95/month for the Professional user, $5.95/month for the Standard User and $0/month for Temporary users….for unlimited meetings.…ECO123 is the most affordable, feature rich, and secure web conferencing product available today! It is as easy as adding a simple web camera to your existing laptop or desktop. All features, including unlimited playback and recording are included at one low monthly price.

Product Utilization

ECO123 allows you to conduct meetings from anywhere in the world, with anyone in the world…at anytime. With ECO123, users can conduct virtual meetings while in a car, a train, or even on a flight – while still maintaining the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 security!

To find out more about Ecocarrier, visit the company at ITEXPO East 2011. To be held Feb. 2-4 in Miami, ITEXPO is the world’s premier IP communications event. Visit Ecocarrier in booth #616. Don’t wait. Register now.

Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Tammy Wolf