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Brazilian telecoms operators generated revenues of 2.4bn reais (US$1.2bn) last year in SMS traffic, newspaper O Estado de S Paulo reported Eduardo Tude, president of telecoms research specialists Teleco, as saying.
Brazil's 103mn mobile phone users sent on average six messages per handset compared to 70 in more mature markets last year, Tude said.
In order to boost SMS traffic, Brazil's third largest mobile phone company Claro last week cut the cost of sending an SMS by 20% to 0.30 reais (US$0.15), the lowest price among national operators.
In Peru a SMS costs on average US$0.08 and in Colombia US$0,06, the newspaper reported.
Claro believes its SMS traffic could increase by more than 20% as a result of the price reduction, the company's value added services director Marco Quatorze told BNamericas last week.
National Software Testing Labs (NSTL), the world's leading mobile application, device testing, and certification company, has expanded its extensive offering of quality assurance testing services. NSTL announces additional global testing facilities designed to provide local testing solutions to the worldwide audience of application developers. These services will be provided through NSTL's appRELAYsm branded offering currently used by most major mobile application developers.
NSTL is also fulfilling the growing need of developers by expanding its much requested Brazilian appRELAY testing laboratory. In addition to testing BREW applications on the Vivo network, clients are now able to submit Java applications for devices on the Claro and Tim wireless networks. As part of NSTL's appRELAY program, clients have access to both carriers and devices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and India. Clients are able to use NSTL's independent testing services to access a continuously growing list of mobile carriers that now includes Verizon, T-Mobile, Cingular, Virgin Mobile USA, Vivo, Claro, Tim, Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility, Rogers, Orange, and Vodafone. NSTL has an extensive inventory of wireless devices covering all major platforms, geographies, and network operators.
“With our test labs now servicing the US, Canada, Brazil , Europe, Asia, and India, our clients have the QA resources they need to thrive in this evolving industry” said NSTL CEO Lloyd Holder. “Not only do our clients have the resources to gain traction in new markets, but they can do so cost effectively as well.”
AppRELAY is a “one–stop shop” that puts all phases of mobile application deployment such as QA and certification pre-testing, localization, porting, and application evaluations in one convenient source. The unmatched flexibility provided to clients using appRELAY allows for a true cost-effective approach to mobile application services.
NSTL is the only authorized testing facility for all major mobile platforms: Qualcomm TRUE BREW, Java Verified, Symbian Signed, and Microsoft Mobile2Market. NSTL is also an authorized testing location for Vodafone Live, Orange's Partner Program, and Virgin Mobile USA.
For more information about NSTL's mobile testing services in Brazil:
Contact:
Patricia Fernandez
Telephone: +55 11 3048-8455
Fax: +55 11 3048-8450
Email: patricia@nstl.com