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The book

General description

Value-added services - messaging, mobile commerce, location services and content provisioning - are the moneymakers in today's telecommunications market. This book explains how to offer these services commercially without having to own network infrastructure. clearly describing all the relevant technologies that enable value-added services without assuming in-depth knowledge of telecommunications, the book shows professionals how to:

  • offer prepaid telephony over a third party's network
  • route calls inexpensively over the Internet
  • build and market mobile applications with short messaging (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS)
  • explore the commercial possibilities of the cell broadcast service (CBS)
  • deliver push, pull and streaming content
  • charge customers for each type of content delivery
  • exploit a variety of location techniques to become a provider of location-based services
  • conduct electronic business and provide payment services over the Internet
  • develop service platforms with commercial and open-source solutions
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