3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a software collaboration with Telecom Italia to further strengthen Telecom Italia's innovative service portfolio. The collaboration aims to simplify service deployment through the platform-based model, help Telecom Italia in implementing their service convergence strategy and increase the amount of S60 devices in Telecom Italia's portfolio.

 

Telecom Italia and S60 will work in close cooperation to support the advanced in-house service development in Telecom Italia and to enable a differentiated service offering across their portfolio.

 

With a strong focus on service convergence, Telecom Italia aims to drive the migration to the Internet and offer consumers integrated and seamless multimedia capabilities, such as web browsing, digital media content and person-to-person non-voice communication.

 

"Our focus is to drive innovation beyond voice and deliver compelling user experience to our customers," said Luigi Licciardi, Vice President, Mobile Industry Relations, Telecom Italia. "The leading customization capabilities in S60 software allow us to differentiate our service proposition, offering the user interface and the usability required, while ensuring the benefits of a consistent platform." 

 

"The market leading smartphone software S60 on Symbian OS enables Telecom Italia to implement their pioneering service concepts consistently," said Matti Vänskä, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. "With the S60 platform, service innovation can be separated from handset development and operators are able to bring their unique service offering faster to the market. Telecom Italia is breaking new ground for service convergence and S60 fits perfectlywith their needs. " 

 

The scope of the collaboration includes Telecom Italia's access to extended capabilities of the S60 platform, joint marketing activities and close roadmap alignment to address Telecom Italia's requirements on the development of S60 software.

 

According to Canalys research (January, 2007), S60 is the clear leader in converged device software with 54% market share globally in Q4 2006. To date, 54 devices based on S60 and Symbian OS have been launched, 25 of which are based on the latest S60 3rd Edition.

S60 software built on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone software, and is licensed by some of the industry's foremost mobile device manufacturers. The flexibility of the S60 software allows for various hardware designs and software configurations, as evidenced by the multitude of S60 devices already available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation potential for partner solutions, the S60 provides an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party developers. For further information and news about the S60 and the S60 community, please visit www.s60.com.

 

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