VISTO CLOSES IN ON $11 BILLION MOBILE EMAIL MARKET
2005 is the year of mass mobile mail capability
London, UK-/06 Jan, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Breakthrough mobile email specialist Visto Corporation expects its Visto Mobile? 5.0 platform to own a significant slice of the mobile mail and messaging management market by 2007.
Business Technology research firm Strategy Analytics puts the value of the mobile email market ? services and equipment ? at $11 billion by 2007. Additional research by Visto has identified a potential user base of some 58 million business users by the same date - with Western Europe showing 10.3 million alone.
Targeting 10 million users by 2007, Visto intends to surpass the total subscriber base of RIM?s niche market Blackberry? handset during 2005 as CEO Brian Bogosian plans for mass market adoption of the Visto application by supporting a wide range of devices and the strategy of an operator-based sales network.
Because of its ability to support any device on any operating system, and its compatibility with popular PC services such as Microsoft Outlook, Visto?s mobile email offering extends an extra level of push-enabled mobile connectivity by providing not only constant access to email, but also continuous, automatic synchronisation of personal contact and calendar details.
Brian Bogosian said: ?Mobile email is following the now traditional route to application acceptance ? expensive solutions for early adopters succeeded by cost-effective, simple and efficient solutions for the mass market. Visto leads with the latter. Our device and network-agnostic approach to mobile email and personal information management removes the device-specific cost constraints and delivers a sophisticated and secure solution that is within reach of all mobile users.?
Visto?s real-time push email and PIM capability supports users ranging from globe-trotting international businessmen to small and medium sized enterprises, SoHo workers, and general consumers. Visto?s solution supports corporate enterprises using Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino, and individuals using ISP- based email services.
Visto Mobile 5.0 allows wireless operators to offer an unrivalled user experience to the mass mobile email market, and is available for deployment across the broadest and deepest set of mobile devices and operating systems. Visto currently has deals in place with network operators in Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia, and is supporting a global subscriber base of more than 250,000 users.
About Visto Mobile
Visto Mobile is Visto's patented, carrier-grade platform for wireless access to corporate and personal e-mail, calendar, contacts and other corporate data. Visto Mobile provides secure and always up-to-date access to e-mail/PIM data for POP3, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino server via any wireless network, and provides total customer choice by supporting all popular intelligent devices. Visto's technology is widely deployed, including across Microsoft, Palm Symbian and J2ME devices.
About Visto
Visto is the leading provider of wireless messaging and collaboration solutions to mobile operators for the broadest set of mobile device platforms and markets. Visto is opening up the mass market for wireless messaging and collaboration by providing a broad and open, carrier-grade, global solution for mobile operators targeting enterprises and mobile professionals, providing mobile operators with a single scalable solution to drive revenue growth and expand margins. The company's Visto Mobile? platform is a broad and open, carrier-grade, secure, wireless email/PIM platform for all popular intelligent devices that integrates seamlessly with mobile operator networks globally. Visto Mobile works in real time with leading email solutions from personal to enterprise providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice for the customer. Visto's customised, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide as a hosted service or a fully licensable and integrated platform, and are used by AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, KPN, Manitoba Telecom Services, Nextel Communications, Inc., Rogers Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone and TELUS Mobility.
Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.visto.com or email sales@visto.com
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