MAP Telecom - NEWSLETTER N°1 – November 2005

Contents

Product and services
- Skype Voice Service Program
- Freephone and premium-rate numbers available in 33 countries
- Map Telecom joins the VoiceXML forum

Partners & Customers
- IVR application
- Springdoo

Events
- Map Telecom Conference

Dear partners and customers,

We have the pleasure of sending you our first newsletter, focusing on the most important news and events involving MAP Telecom in the last few months. A major milestone has been the launch of the Skype Voice Services Program, which has brought many new developers and content providers to MAP Telecom. These developers are using Voxbuilder to design services and then launch them on the Skype network. Have fun reading our newsletter, and feel free to send any feedback or comments to marketing@map-telecom.com.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

1. Skype Voice Services Program

As one of the three platform partners of Skype and the only Skype partner in st1:place w:st="on">Europe, Map Telecom enables application developers and content providers to create new revenue streams by offering their voice services to the global Skype community of more than 52 million users. Innovative voice services can be developed on Voxbuilder and then made available to Skype’s millions of callers in over 200 countries. Developers are able to obtain free Skype numbers from MAP Telecom. Developed services can then be submitted to MAP Telecom by sending relevant information to sales@map-telecom.com.
> press release

2. Freephone and premium-rate numbers available in 33 countries

Map Telecom is now offering freephone and premium numbers in 33 countries worldwide. For further information, please contact sales@map-telecom.com.
> list of countries covered

3. Map Telecom joins the VoiceXML Forum

MAP Telecom has joined the VoiceXML Forum, which supports the development and promotion of VoiceXML as an open standard markup language for enabling speech-based applications. VoiceXML enables a large developer base to create voice-driven applications, making content previously only available by Internet or from corporate databases also accessible by telephone.
> VoiceXML Forum website

PARTNERS & CUSTOMERS

1. MAP business exchange program for application developers:

MAP Telecom is partnering with leading IVR application developers across Europe to deliver complete solutions to our customers. If you are an application developer, and you want to partner with us, please contact us today. MAP Telecom will promote and sell your service to end-customers worldwide.
For a list of available applications, click here.
To join the programme, please contact us.

2. No more typing e-mails – MAP Telecom hosts Springdoo service in the UK and the US

Phone users in the US and the UK are now able to record messages on any phone and send them directly to an e-mail address or group of addresses, thanks to a revolutionary new talking e-mail service provided by New Zealand-based Springdoo Limited, hosted by MAP Telecom and developed by TeleMessenger Solutions Limited.
> Read the press release

EVENTS

1. Map Telecom Conference – 27 October 2005 – Monaco

Map Telecom’s conference on 27 October 2005 in Monaco attracted a substantial number of visitors and journalists. Several presentations on the topic « VoiceXML and Multimedia Services » by MAP staff illustrated the benefits of VoiceXML and the role of MAP Telecom as the leading pan-European VoiceXML hosting company. They were followed by presentations by the MAP Telecom partners Agilea, VoiceDriven, Monaco Télématique and SSV, who provided the audience with real application examples and showed some live demonstrations. A cocktail and informal discussion concluded the event.