Colombo, June 2010 – hSenid Mobile, a multi-national Mobile Software Infrastructure company along with Etisalat, one of Sri-Lanka’s most innovative telecom providers are proud to be associated with the mBillionth South Asia Award 2010 in felicitating the region’s best in Mobile Content and Applications an event that also coincides with the first ever South Asian Conference and Workshop on Mobile Content and Application Development to be held from 10 to 12 June 2010 . The Events are organized by ICTA (Information and Communication Technology Agency) Sri Lanka which functions under the Presidential Secretariat, is the country’s apex body involved in ICT policy and direction for the nation.
With the saturating consumption of Mobile Services and the dynamism of the channel, Mobile Content and Applications have become a global phenomenon over the past few years and with rapidly rising Mobile Penetration levels in South-Asia, the region has fast-tracked itself in adopting innovative value added services in the form of mobile content and applications converging Information, Communication & Entertainment.Therefore with the prevalent talent pool in the field of Mobile Software Development in the region, the mBillionth 2010 South Asia Conference and Workshop is to set the platform for the advent of “Home-Grown Content and applications” opening up a new breed of entrepreneurship amongst Local Application developers and enhancing their presence in the region.
Etisalat known for its continuous innovation of Mobile Communication services and now a pioneer in fostering the wave of Innovative Mobile Applications is delighted to be a strategic partner of mBillionth 2010, with Chief Executive Officer, Duminda Ratnayake saying that “it has now become essential to develop more and more Mobile content that is required for carrying out what is beneficial for the day-to-day life of the individual and society through the mobile phone. He also points out that this will open the door of opportunity for indigenous personnel with ICT skills and pave the way for the rise of a strong industry.”
hSenid Mobile, a company that thrives on designing Telco Platforms enabling the convenient development, deployment and commercialization of Mobile Applications across the globe, believes that the Mobile Channel is capable of serving hundreds of millions of South Asians previously locked out of the digital movement with a range of locally customized services by its own developers with an architecture that comfortably accommodates the members of the eco-system such as the Network Operators and application developers themselves in serving mobile subscribers with simple SMS to smart phone and enterprise applications.
hSenid Mobile is therefore proud to be associated with mBillionth 2010, an event that complies with its value proposition with CEO Dinesh B. Saparamadu saying “that it is significant that a conference and workshop of this calibre is to be hosted in Colombo at a time when a variety of useful content are being speedily created world-wide for the mobile phone. He emphasised that hSenid Mobile has always taken a strategic interest in providing creative technological solutions and is actively contributing to this event because it serves an important national and an international need.”
It is at this juncture that Sri-Lanka is set to embrace a technical infrastructure that is conducive to simplified Mobile application development paving the way for budding Sri-Lankan software developers to experience rapid deployment and commercialization of their Mobile applications with utmost ease.
This Etisalat-hSenid (AppZone.lk) Developer Portal to be launched at the event, ensures application developers face no obligations in having to possess knowledge on the complexities of connecting to the network and underlying telco protocols, instead they simply have to focus on what they do best, bring out a series of sought after Mobile Apps!
Dinesh Sapmramadu CEO of hSenid Mobile and Dumindra Ratnayaka CEO of Etisalat will set the tone for the event by laying out the development & commercial potential of Mobile applications. Prior to the Launch Dinesh says, “ We are excited about the launch of the Etisalat-hSenid Developer Portal and we expect this to be a great step forward in creating a vibrant Mobile Developer community in Sri-Lanka “.
About hSenid Mobile Solutions
hSenid Mobile, is a multi-national Mobile-Telco Software Solutions provider of a next generation Telco Platform consisting of Messaging, Mobile Money, OSS/BSS and Core Signaling enabling the mobile world with over a decade of experience and a solid history of implementing diverse Telco applications globally.
Along with its Cloud Enabled Telco Platform hSenid Mobile offers a comprehensive product portfolio that includes a Cloud Enabled Subscriber created VAS Platform, A Dynamic Open Source App Store, an End-to-end Customer Churn Management Solution, A Multi-Channel Top Up system, Location Based Solutions, Mobile Commerce solutions, Telco Reporting amongst others. Its customer base spans across continents with some of the key being, M1 (Singapore), Telcel (Mexico), DST (Brunei), Etisalat (Sri-Lanka), Dialog, (Sri-Lanka) and its Research and Business Development offices in Singapore, Malaysia, USA, India & Sri-Lanka.