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21st July 2004 - Orange’s newly launched 3G service
offers business customers high-speed mobile email access
via a 3G data card. However, if Orange had added VT
Phone technology to the data card, it would allow its
business customers to also access video services via
their laptop. This capability, only a small fraction
of the cost of the data card, would incubate demand
for services such as video calling by allowing business
users to trial them using their laptop. This could boost
operator revenues and encourage sales of 3G handsets.
VT Phone transforms any laptop PC equipped with a 3G
data card into a 3G terminal, enabling laptop users
to make two-way video telephony calls to any 3G terminal.
VT Phone is a Windows-based software application that
incorporates Dilithium Networks’ AnswerFast™
technology to reduce call set up times by around 50%,
offering data card users a very rewarding video calling
service.
Lee Ellison, Senior Vice President of Sales, and Marketing
with Dilithium Networks, said, “3G data cards are
an excellent service to business executives on the move
but Orange are missing a trick by not offering video
calling. VT Phone would enable these customers to trial
video services using their lap top and would add no
more than 2% of the cost of the data card. This capability
could boost revenues in the short term and, increase
the number of video enabled terminals while enhancing
the capabilities of 3G datacard users.”
VT Phone, jointly developed by Dilithium Networks and
Singapore-based LineFusion Pte Ltd., provides a feature
rich and fully customizable GUI that provides separate
windows for incoming and outgoing videos, a dial pad
and call status window.
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