Cell Phone Rental
If you have planned to travel to China between August 8 and 24th for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, you might be interested to know how to get a cell phone package including low-cost national and international calls, comprehensive city guides, GPS navigation, a camera so you to bring back the special moments with you, wireless Internet access and emergency assistance.The company providing such a cool and complete package is Yoyoor, a cell phone rental and travel assistance service destined to English speakers coming to China. You could get it from the Beijing International Airport or order it from anywhere in the country, for personal delivery.
Using a dedicated button on the phone you can access a live support in English to ask for information related to travel directions, restaurant recommendations, entertainment ideas, and transportation.
This service is very useful because only 30% of the cell phones available in North America and Europe work on the Chinese territory and those telecommunication companies that do offer support ask for high rates for calling, messaging and access to data. To offer the best alternative, Yoyoor gives you access to all these 3 important services for $3.99 per day.
“This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. Yoyoor is poised to keep the thousands of travelers visiting China for the Beijing Summer Games in touch with their friends and family through our flat-rate mobile phone rental package,” said Joss Shen, CEO of Yoyoor. “We look forward to surprising and delighting Yoyoor customers with our comprehensive travel services and especially our personal touch of a live on-call representative to answer any questions they might have and to make their experience in Beijing even more fun and enjoyable.”
In addition to this, the Chinese company has a special offer for visitors that plan to stay in the country for a longer period of time, and provides a rate of $0.20/minute for calling while diverting all incoming calls to the cell phone used in China. Extra charges are of $8 for the activation and $0.25 saily service fee for the Travel-lite package.
The offer includes a Nokia 6110 Navigator smartphone with GPS, A-GPS, high-resolution built-in camera and multimedia player among others.
Labels: China Telecom
China Telecom selects Nokia Siemens Networks to boost its MegaEyes service for better work efficiency and life experience
Nokia Siemens Networks to enable broadband and multimedia services for operators through its industry leading Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) capability.China Telecom, the leading wireline provider of telecommunications services in China has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as the primary solutions provider for its video monitoring service, MegaEyes. This video monitoring solution is an operator host IP based offering capable of providing high end images for remote monitoring. Nokia Siemens Networks will support new broadband and multimedia services for China Telecom’s MegaEyes by leveraging its complete solution portfolio ranging from video monitoring platform to Consulting and Systems Integration, IMS, Network Security and Multi-media Service Delivery Platform.
China Telecom has identified MegaEyes as a strategic multimedia service that will drive new business opportunities and revenues for the company. Nokia Siemens Networks has been engaged to develop the next generation version of the product, migrating the existing solution into a mobile enabled offering.
Users will have access to the solution (camera) on a computer or handheld device that can log on to the Internet/Intranet. Consequently, it will provide corporate and individual users with an entirely new, objectively visual and range-extended auditory and vision management tool that can help improve work effectiveness and life experience. Enhancing the usage ratio of broadband to IP backbone, the solution which is operator hosted is slated to be low cost and easy to deploy.
Leng Rongquan, Vice President of China Telecom says: “Nokia Siemens Networks’ support for MegaEyes service development has been widely recognized by all parties of China Telecom. We see tremendous potential in MegaEyes which brings value to our customers and supports value added services development for China Telecom. Looking for a carrier grade solution partner, we chose Nokia Siemens Networks to support MegaEyes service and market development.”
Austen Lin, Head of China Telecom Customer Business Team at Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China Region, adds: “Leveraging our leading position in both mobile and fixed market, Nokia Siemens Networks has always been at the forefront of Fixed Mobile Convergence in helping operator customers explore new business opportunities. We are delighted about this MegaEyes partnership with China Telecom which is one of such examples. Here we successfully demonstrate our multimedia application leadership by introducing our consulting and systems integration capability, video monitoring platform, IMS as well as our industry leading network management systems.”
About China Telecom
China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom) is an extra-large state-owned telecom operator organized according to China's telecom industry reform scheme. As a principal telecom enterprise and the greatest basic telecom operator of China, China Telecom owns the global largest fixed-line telephone network that covers the cities and towns as well as the rural areas of China and penetrates to every corner of the world. Member units of China Telecom include 31 provincial (municipal and autonomous regional) enterprises which provide telecom services nationwide. http://en.chinatelecom.com.cn/corp/index.html
About Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
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