GSMA Mobile Asia Congress is an important event in the GSM calendar. It is the largest and most significant GSM event in the Asian region and Openmind Networks will be attending to meet with mobile and wholesale operators that are looking for new and innovative ways to increase their messaging revenues.

The Mobile Asia Congress combines the region's largest exhibition for the mobile industry with a cutting edge congress featuring the most prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event is where the Asian mobile community defines its future and creates business. Openmind Networks will be there and we look forward to meeting you there.

Meeting Request

Openmind Networks welcomes the opportunity to meet with individuals and companies that are interested in hearing more about Traffic Control and the range of benefits that it delivers to our current customer base.

Mobile Congress Asia will be a hectic three day event so please contact us here to guarantee a time to meet with our team, hear about the product and get a live demonstration of our unique services.

Product Demonstrations

Openmind Networks will demonstrate Traffic Control, its industry leading next generation messaging platform and its comprehensive suite of applications to demonstrate how it:

1. Replaces store & forward SMSCs with a high performance router built on an open hardware & operating system
2. Delivers sufficient capacity to handle all messaging traffic on one distributed system
3. Enables interception & routing of off-net originating mobile MT traffic
4. Provides triggering of anti-spam & other filters to protect messaging services
5. Supports a suite of value added applications that personalise messaging services
6. Includes an open API to allow customised application development in-line with Service Oriented Architecture principles

Not attending Mobile World Congress

If you are not attending Mobile Asia Congress and would like to obtain more detailed information or request a demonstration of new messaging services please contact us here.

SMS Router Background: While SMS-C capex is flattening and declining, SMS router capex is gaining momentum

 According to industry analysts OVUM although SMS messaging traffic will more than double in the next five years, from 1,200 billion messages in 2005 to 2,800 billion plus messages in 2010, SMS-C capex for the next five years will be flat to declining. As shown in the table below, SMS-C capex will be maintained at €480–560 million from 2005 to 2010. However, SMS router capex will more than double to €175 million in 2010, from only €78 million in 2005.

According to Portio Research, from a start of 2.65 billion subscribers at the end of 2006, by end of 2012 approximately two thirds (4.81 billion) of the world’s population (7 billion) will have a mobile handset. 50% will have a handset by end of 2009.

Key data points:

• In terms of absolute subscriber volume, China emerged as the largest mobile market in the world, followed by the US and Russia.

• India is expected to witness the strongest growth in the future, with the subscriber base increasing at a CAGR of 22.25% during 2006-2012.

• Asia Pacific region will account for the majority of the growth which will account for 50% of worldwide subscriber figures by 2008.

• This subscriber base will be characterised by low income groups in China and India and followed by Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan.

• Western and Northern Europe as well as North America have witnessed consolidation and may increase as marketing intensifies and margins decrease. Non-voice value-added services will be the key driver in the region from 2006 onwards.

• Central and Eastern Europe emerged as the fastest growing markets during 20-02-2206, with the number of subscribers increasing at a CAGR of 36.45%. Russia and Ukraine were the fastest growing mobile destinations in the region during the same period.

As demonstrated in the diagram above, message volumes are still growing but revenues are flat. Adding services to retain and attract new customers is complex, slow and expensive.

As a result mobile operators:

• Are facing increasing operational costs due to the inability to provide capacity on demand for messaging services.
• Are finding it difficult to differentiate their service offerings from those of their competitors.
• Are facing the threat of spam and scam attacks on their customers.
• Are constrained by the lack of innovation and support for legacy platforms from messaging vendors.
• Are finding succession planning for next generation networks to be very complex and difficult.