TREVOSE, PA, April 19, 2007 - Satnews Daily - WorldGate Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ-WGAT), a leading provider of personal videophones and associated technology, has developed and is in the process of providing its new Service Provider Package that will allow its Ojo video phones to be more quickly and easily adapted to their networks around the world using a wide variety of technology platforms.
The Service Provider Package includes the ability for Ojos purchased by service provider customers to immediately register with the customer's system. This will provide an ability to maintain standard inventory and reduce the need for and cost of unique inventory. The software will also provide for the ability of service provider customers to have Ojo provide more features to offer their customers.
The new software has already been evaluated by several prospective customers who have cooperated in developing this capability and are planning to use it for upcoming launches.
One potential customer, Broadvoice, has been working with Worldgate to ensure the new package satisfies a broad range of needs, including the provisioning feature to deliver the best possible consumer experience.
Broadvoice president Les Berry said both sides have worked hard to define the best user experience and Broadvoice has been pleasantly surprised that Ojo outperforms its expectations in all respects as we get close to the best consumer product the company can offer.
WorldGate chairman and CEO Hal Krisbergh said they have been consolidating information and requirements from a wide variety of service providers from around the world for the past year. “This new software represents a great collaboration between Ojo and its potential customers to make Ojo more easily deployed on their technology platforms", he said. "We expect this important new capability to lead to a variety of new launches of Ojo by service providers since the integration of Ojo on to this wide variety of networks will now be able to be automated".
WorldGate designs, manufactures and distributes the Ojo line of personal videophones. Ojo personal videophones offer high quality, real-time, two-way video communications with video messaging. The Ojo videophones are designed to conform to industry standard protocols and utilize enhancements to the latest technology for voice and video compression to achieve superior quality at data rates as low as 100 Kbps.
BroadVoice is a leading provider of feature-rich broadband phone services to consumers and businesses. BroadVoice VoIP phone service allows customers in the United States and more than 120 other countries to use their broadband Internet connection to make and receive phone calls anywhere in the world.
