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Location Based Services

Unfold the future - with real time Location Based Service Solutions

It's noon and you're walking down main street, wondering where to go for lunch ...when a Pizza Hut outlet nearby sends you a discount coupon for your favourite Pizza, on your mobile device...your choice of meal is made!

Now to get there! Looking for directions? Just type in the name - thereafter treated as a "keyword" by the network - on your handset display and press the "send" button. Your request is sent as an SMS message to an LBS information software which sends back a picture SMS to you, displaying the roadmap to the outlet from where you're standing...

If you are not looking forward to lunch alone? launch a Buddy Finder…and find your friend who is window shopping in the next block, unknown to you. Once you launch a Buddy Finder application, both you and your friend get an SMS. Found your buddy, now invite him for lunch.

That was just an example of how Aricent LBS solutions experts make life simpler for the mobile user.

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Aricent's LBS experts address the needs of service providers worldwide. We specialize in easy-to-implement end-to-end location technology solutions for 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks. Our solutions allow you to start providing location aware applications today with the bare minimum components and minimal investments. You can add other location technologies and location application services to your portfolio as your subscribers increasingly adopt your services.

In today's business environment, knowing the customer better than the competition is the best competitive advantage a company can have. How do you accelerate the time it takes to convert a new customer into bottom line profit and how do you prevent that same customer from moving to another service? Interacting with customers, understanding their needs and preferences and tailoring information, products and services for them is the challenge. But the solutions have been elusive in the traditional communication environment. The 2G, 2.5G and incoming 3G networks provide the bedrock of infrastructure on which mobile location-based solutions and services are now possible that help networks achieve precisely this.

The services paradigm is getting redefined by adding a new dimension - Location information, to serve the customer better. The objective of LBS is to create both tangible and intangible benefits for the service provider and the operators. It focuses on delivering information to users on demand, depending upon the user's current location within a business context.

It is not just mobile operators and content providers who are set to benefit. LBS in its various forms will prove invaluable to consumers and business people in all aspects of everyday life. The need for adopting LBS solutions is compelling as it creates a quantifiable business impact on the organization. The early adopters of LBS solutions are organizations with field operations such as service dispatch, fleet management and asset tracking, where location information is business-critical and IT investments are based upon measurable benefits with good return on investments. Not only is this of value to the end-user, its simplicity promises to increase customer loyalty and more importantly revenues, because mobile operators will now be able to charge premium rates for these services.


Aricent has years of expertise in providing high reliability, high transaction, and mission critical solutions. We can help you unlock the real potential of your mobile services.

Last updated : March 16, 2006

 

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