When devices are lost or stolen, it often results in the loss of phone numbers. When migrating to a new phone, users must often manually reenter their contacts — a tedious and frustrating task. Research indicates that a mobile phone is stolen every 12 seconds, costing insurance companies hundreds of $millions annually. While phones can be replaced, their data is often gone forever.
By using a service that synchronizes address book information, subscribers can easily migrate data from one device to another. And as people store their digital contact data in multiple places, a server-based address book can unify their contacts and keep them all in sync. By integrating this into an online portal, service providers can provide a new and valuable service to subscribers.
Service providers in saturated mobile markets are experiencing revenue erosion for both voice and data as competition intensifies and data services are gradually adopted. While service providers aggressively aim to grow ARPU, many struggle to maintain current levels.
Address book synchronization is a compelling service that can build subscriber loyalty. It makes life easier for subscribers by allowing them to simply migrate their contacts to a new phone — something they can only do while getting service from their current operator.
One of the today’s hot topics is mobile email. Supported by most mobile phones, it is becoming an important revenue generator for service providers. But users need email addresses on their mobiles that are usually only in their address books on the web or PC. By synchronizing their address books, users can have email addresses on their mobiles as well as mobile contact phone numbers on the web and PC where they can be used for emerging services like VoIP.
Funambol enables service providers and online portals to quickly deploy low cost address book synchronization and mobile backup services. Funambol’s open source-based software provides two major benefits for service providers. The availability of source code minimizes risk and provides ultimate flexibility and control, making integration, customization, localization and support easier than with proprietary solutions. In addition, Funambol is the world’s largest mobile open source project, with more than one million downloads by 10,000 contributors in over 200 countries. This results in the world’s greatest device compatibility, as the community constantly tests and enhances Funambol on the latest mobile devices. Funambol is also the leading open source implementation of OMA DS (aka SyncML), enabling it to support the vast majority of shipping mobile phones.
The Funambol Mobile Backup & PIM Sync solution supports the synchronization of contacts, calendars, tasks, notes and other data with the widest range of mobile devices on the planet, including:
Funambol software ensures that PIM data is up-to-date on every device and server. Whether the data is on mobile phones or in Outlook, webmail, databases, server applications, files or iPods, Funambol can keep it all synchronized.
Funambol is the ultimate low-risk solution:
For more information, view the Funambol Mobile Backup & PIM Sync Data Sheet or contact Funambol Sales.
