The wireless sector in Sweden comprises some 500 companies, which offer myriad business opportunities for anyone searching for excellence in wireless. Companies range from the world’s leading wireless systems group Ericsson to a rapidly growing number of mobile application developers.

As a global leader in wireless technology, Sweden offers a complete set of expertise represented by innovative companies across all wireless segments. Meet some of these companies at the Swedish pavilion in HALL 2 F37.

The thirteen companies represented in the pavilion include internationally leading telecommunications system integrators, OSS software vendors, service delivery platform providers and mobile application developers.

List of Swedish companies:

Birdstep
Cellpoint
Digital Route
Drutt Corporation
General Wireless
Hotsip
Kenet Works
Mobilaris
Softhouse Nordic
Phonehits
Synapse Mobile Networks
Teracom
Wayfinder Systems

Company Introductions

Mobile Service Companies

General Wireless: General Wireless provides mobile operators with SMS technology that enables PC users to send and receive SMS via MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes. The system enables 500 million PC users to communicate with 1 billion mobile phones.

Operators that today offer their customers General Wireless PC SMS service include Vodafone (in the UK, Hungary and Netherlands), Orange (in the UK, Denmark and Belgium), TIM, TeliaSonera, Tele2, O2 and VIPnet.

3GSM news: General Wireless will launch a new version of their service which will enable customers to send and receive MMS from Outlook.

www.generalwireless.com

Phonehits: Phonehits is a mobile music service provider. It has developed real-time computerized song recognition software. The software provides a real-time link to the music playing on radio stations. It identifies a song within 12 seconds and sends the information to the mobile phone.

Three services offered by Phonehits include; real-time music directory, real-time artist scanner and real-time ring tone

Real-time ring tone service allows users to receive ring tones from songs playing on the radio. This is made possible by linking Phonehits music identification service with a database of ring tones.

Phonehits tested this service in December 2004 using a database of 7000 polyphonic ring tones. The results were impressive: more than 95% of the songs played on Swedish commercial FM and over 80% of the songs on public service radio SR P3 radio were linked to ringtones in real time.

This technology will in the future enable users to buy the song they hear on the radio via their mobile phones in real time. 3GSM news: The system will be offered by one of the main European 3G operators on three markets during 2005. www.phonehits.com

Softhouse Nordic: Swedish company Softhouse has developed a mobile entertainment application called Twin Factor® which uses face recognition technology to match your face with a celebrity. A portrait picture is sent to a server via MMS and is matched with the celebrity pictures available in the database.

Softhouse believes the application to have great cross media potential and have ongoing discussions with partners to link the application to different TV shows.

Twin Factor® is the first in a product-line of mobile entertainment applications and will be launched in a number of new markets during the first and second quarter of 2005.

Twin Factor® was awarded best entertainment application at Ericsson Mobile Applications Awards 2004. 3GSM news: Softhouse will announce a new entertainment application. www.softhouse.se

Synapse Mobile Networks: Synapse offers automatic configuration of MMS in mobile phones. The service is sold to and used by operators in Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.

The system was recently successfully installed by an operator in Cyprus offering automatic MMS configuration to its customers. The results show that 85% of all its customers with MMS capabilities have installed MMS. This can be compared to the common 1% MMS usage in other European countries.

3GSM news: The configuration service will in the near future be used for other mobile services such as e-mail, chat, Mobile TV. How and when will be announced at 3GSM. www.synap.se

Wayfinder: Wayfinder is a GPS navigation system for mobile phones. It offers the capabilities of an in-car navigation system and gives spoken directions. The system can be used a Bluetooth GPS module is flexible. It can give pedestrians directions and can replace today’s in car navigation systems.

Wayfinder covers Western Europe and Hungary and will launch in North America within 2005. It was awarded best mobile information application at Ericsson Mobile Applications Award 2004. 3GSM news: New product features will be announced. www.wayfinder.com

Kenet Works: Kenet Works enables Internet Communities to become truly mobile. Services include real-time updates of personal information such as guestbooks, as well as messaging with text, images, video and audio (push-to-talk). Clients and partners are Internet Communities and mobile telephony operators. Kenet Works clients in Europe today has approx. 7 million users. 3GSM news: Kenet Works will launch new community services. www.kenetworks.se

Mobile Systems Integrators

Digital Route: DigitalRoute is an OSS software vendor with exclusive focus on mediation. It provides convergent mediation systems to telecommunications network operators and service providers worldwide. The system links the telecommunications networks to the operators' charging systems, with the objective to enable flexible charging and payment models. When compared to many other systems on the market its advantages lie in the ease of adaptation to each operator’s specific environment, translating into rapid deployment and lower cost of owenership.

The system is used in commercial operations for customers worldwide, including operators such as Tele2 (Sweden), tele.ring (Austria), Orascom/Tunisiana (Tunisia), and others. www.digitalroute.com

Drutt Corporation: Drutt Corporation is a software company and leading provider of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Infrastructure to mobile operators. Their products help operators manage all aspects of SDP, including content integration & partners, devices, rich media, messaging, streaming, downloads and premium content charging.

The products are individual components, and can easily be plugged into existing infrastructure. The software is used by more than 25 operators and currently serves over 10 million end users and thousands of content providers in more than 20 countries. With over 400 commercial installations Drutt is the unmatched market leader in core areas of mobile service delivery.

Drutt will launch the following products at 3GSM:

Drutt 3PI Media: is a content integration service which can adapt and distribute rich media such as video and audio into all types of phones and can handle workflow. The distribution format can be of any type such as streaming, download or MMS.

Version 4.0 of Drutt Rendering: Drutt Rendering is a device rendering service integrated into Drutt’s Service Delivery Platform. Version 4.0 has an improved support system which enables easy handling of layout and optimal presentation of services in all phones.

Version 4.0 of Drutt 3PI: Drutt 3PI includes different products for partner management and content integration. It enables operators to handle all types of content independent of original format. It can also send the content into any channel of distribution (WAP, browsing, SMS, MMS).

Launch of 3PI Media: 3PI Media is a content integration service which handles workflow and can change all types of video and audio format.

www.drutt.com

Mobilaris: Mobilaris is established as the number one and leading EndToEnd supplier in the LBS Delivery Platform segment by contracting more mobile operators than any other competitor in the industry.

Many operators have launched Mobilaris services commercially. One of them is Swedish operator Telia, which offers detailed road directions connected to its yellow pages. Other operators using Mobilaris’ platform to offer commercial location-based services include Orange France, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

3GSM news: Product release and strategic cooperation will be announced at 3GSM. www.mobilaris.se

Teracom: Teracom Components company is at the forefront of technological advancement in the development and manufacturing of coaxial and RF systems for both telecom and broadcasting. The Teracom Components telecom product line includes: Cable connectors (with N or DIN 7/16 head, from 3/8” up to 2 ј”), Jumper cables (with N or DIN 7/16 head, any length available), Grounding Kits and EMP-protectors, Cable Clamps, Power Splitters, Filters, Combiners and ndB-Couplers.

3GSM news: Teracom Components will show the complete range of water-proof components for the next generation of telecom sites. www.teracom.se

Hotsip: Hotsip is a leader in the development and delivery of multimedia communication applications and infrastructure for large scale SIP enabled networks. Hotsip’s business idea is to increase value by providing new revenue opportunities for customers through a rich offering of multimedia communication applications such as IP-telephony, Video Call, Presence, IM, Conferencing, and Gaming for broadband and IMS networks. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Stockholm. www.hotsip.com

Birdstep: Leading independent provider, to mobile operators, ISPS and device manufacturers of software-based products and services that make network and service access ubiquitous.

3GSM news: Two product launches and one customer contract launch. www.birdstep.com

Cellpoint: CellPoint offers mobile operators, service providers and enterprises the possibility to generate additional revenue by supplying unique solutions combining location, time and the personal profile of a mobile user. The company delivers its own solution and solutions developed on its open platforms in conjunction with its partners.

3GSM news: Two product launches and one customer contract launch. www.cellpoint.com

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