Phones Pre-Loaded With OTA Backup at Stores

FutureDial and FusionOne offer integrated solution for pre-loading OTA mobile content backup and transfer solutions on phones at store counters

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ — Enabling mobile phones for over-the-air mobile content backup and transfer just got easier. FutureDial, a leading provider of Web-based mobile content transfer solutions for tier-1 wireless carriers and FusionOne, a leading provider of over-the-air (OTA) mobile content portability services, announced today an integrated solution. This partnership enables wireless stores to back up content from old phones right at the store counter, and then pre-load FusionOne’s OTA Handset Transfer Solution to the new phone, thereby providing continued protection.

Until recently, one key obstacle for adoption of OTA mobile content backup and transfer services was the manual process of programming and enabling it on mobile phones, something which many users found difficult and did not prefer to do by themselves. Now FusionOne has partnered with FutureDial to make the OTA client provisioning process easier right at the store counter.

The FutureDial solution integrates with FusionOne’s Handset Transfer Solution on the mobile phone so the user can walk out of the store equipped with OTA backup service, enabling mobile carriers to promote wider adoption of backup services.

FutureDial’s V.P. of Marketing, Mr. Sanjiv Parikh, pointed out that “we have been innovating point-of-sale phone management solutions for Sprint and other wireless carriers for years. This time we have opened our solution platform to integrate with FusionOne so that we can pre-program the phones for OTA backup and start the first mobile content backup at the retail counter directly into FusionOne’s customer account, at the time a new phone is purchased by the customer. This is a great convenience for carriers to deliver their OTA services to end users so that many more subscribers can enjoy the benefits.”

“Today’s consumers want the convenience of having their phones pre-configured for them when they purchase handsets at stores,” said Mohan Sadashiva, senior vice president of marketing for FusionOne. “With the seamless integration of our technology with FutureDial’s capabilities at the point of sale, we have overcome a key hurdle for many consumers. This partnership allows us to provide our customers with ready-to-go new handsets equipped to safeguard the important content on their mobile devices.”

About FutureDial

FutureDial is the leading provider of in-store mobile content management solutions to mobile operators enabling various revenue-generating services like phone-to-phone transfer, backup, restore, and content sales at retail shops. FutureDial’s pioneering web-based solutions support audio, video, images, contacts, calendar, and SMS with over one thousand handset models. Used by Tier-1 carriers across Europe and the USA at retail stores, service centers, and warehouses serving millions of users worldwide. For more information about FutureDial and its products, please visit www.futuredial.com

About FusionOne

FusionOne is the established leader in mobile content portability, helping mobile subscribers transfer their content between mobile devices and share their mobile content with popular internet applications. FusionOne pioneered mobile content portability solutions such as Handset Transfer Solution and Network Address Book, which currently support millions of subscribers on mobile carriers worldwide. Founded in 1998, FusionOne is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Tallinn, Estonia. For more information, visit www.fusionone.com.

SOURCE FutureDial