Cingular and Qpass Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership to Expand Premium Content & Services Business; Qpass' Technology Platform Will Power All of Cingular's Premium Content Services.ATLANTA & SEATTLE -- Qpass today announced an extension of its partnership with Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, to continue to provide the technology platform and services that support and efficiently manage the premium content and services offered by Cingular to its customers. The new multi-year agreement expands and broadens the already existing relationship between Qpass and Cingular, which has spanned more than five years. Today, Qpass provides Cingular with its mobile commerce platform, supporting the carrier's merchant management, offer management, promotions management, payments, customer care, financial reporting and settlement for Cingular and its hundreds of merchants selling premium content and services. By centralizing cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. the mobile commerce function with Qpass, Cingular subscribers are able to purchase ringtones, graphics, video programming, games, and applications via multiple Cingular branded storefronts and services such as: --MEdia Net -- Cingular's wireless Internet product that gives customers the quickest access to their favorite online content in a range of categories such as news and entertainment, sports, finance, weather, movies, photo services, and shopping. --MEdia Mall -- Cingular's marketplace for ringtones, graphics, and games from hundreds of content providers. --MEdia Net Live Ticker -- Cingular's new service that delivers pre-selected content, such as breaking news, weather and sports information, directly to consumers' phone displays without the need to touch a single button or incur any charge for accessing the initial information. --RealArcade -- A subscription-based service that allows subscribers to play a wide variety of games for a monthly subscription fee. Additionally, Cingular also works with Qpass to power its rapidly-growing third party off-portal business, providing merchant management, billing, subscription management, revenue assurance, real-time reporting, and a consistent customer care experience to third-party content sites and aggregators that sell premium content directly to Cingular subscribers. Qpass' solution acts as a point of control in Cingular's rapidly expanding third-party off-portal business, helping enforce business policies and service standards across all subscriber touch points. "Qpass has been a partner of Cingular's for many years, and we are very pleased to be extending our strategic relationship with them," said Jim Ryan Jim Ryan may refer to:
In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. opportunities to bring innovative content and applications to the marketplace, and Qpass is helping us achieve that goal." "Qpass is very pleased to be extending its partnership with Cingular so that we can help them to continue to achieve their goals of efficiently growing their premium services revenue and launching new services, which ensures Cingular's industry leadership in the mobile data space," said Chase Franklin, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Qpass. "Because Qpass is uniquely able to address all aspects of the premium content and services business, Cingular can continue to rapidly innovate and grow their data services business in an efficient and scalable manner for years to come." About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , serving 54.1 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between AT&T Inc., formerly SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(TM) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third-generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) See HSPA. (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover A graphic element in an application or on a Web page that changes its color or shape when the pointer is moved (rolled) over it. See JavaScript rollover. See also n-key rollover. (R), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com. Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com About Qpass Qpass is a leading digital commerce software and solutions company that enables the buying and selling of digital goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. over any network. The Qpass platform manages hundreds of thousands of content applications and services across mobile, VoIP, and WiFi networks. The company manages the entire digital commerce transaction process, from content sourcing, to merchandising and delivery, to billing and customer care. Qpass customers include Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile International, Vodafone, Sprint, Suncom ALLTEL, US Cellular, One and Skype. Qpass serves more than 150 million mobile subscribers and more than 60 million web portal See portal. , WiFi and VoIP users worldwide. Qpass processes tens of millions of premium services transactions per month and has processed more than 400 million premium downloads since inception, representing more than US$900 million in gross retail consumer sales. Qpass is privately-held and has headquarters in Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. , and Vienna, Austria. |
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