Fixed Mobile Convergence

Bytemobile (News - Alert), a provider of video optimization and Smart Capacity solutions for mobile network operators, and China Communications Services (China Comservice), an integrated services provider for telecom sector, announced their joint venture to address network optimization market in China. 

Both companies are trying to leverage a major opportunity in China. Recent studies say China will soon experience strong mobile growth toward one billion subscribers. China will also develop a rapidly growing market for 3G services, while it started LTE (News - Alert) trials and will introduce locally developed handsets to rival the Apple iPhone. There will be shift toward increasingly data-intensive applications such as video.

“The need to address next-generation mobile networks and the rapid adoption of high-bandwidth data services has generated growing demand for network efficiency tools such as video and web optimization in China,” said Li Ping, chairman of China Comservice, in a statement. 

“Operators are hungry for products and services in this space. Our joint venture will leverage the rich industry expertise, broad market access and strong local support of China Comservice to bring Bytemobile’s leading traffic management solutions to customers serving all provinces,” Ping added.

The new joint venture based in China will be aiming at providing traffic management and data optimization solutions and services to operators throughout the country.

“To date, Bytemobile solutions have been deployed in the networks of more than 130 operators in over 60 countries,” said Hatim Tyabji, chairman and chief executive officer of Bytemobile. 

“We have had a market footprint in China for more than seven years, with deployments at the provincial operating companies of China Telecom (News - Alert), China Mobile and China Unicom, and our own research and development center in Beijing. Together with China Comservice, we are well positioned to continue broadening and deepening our leadership in the region.”

Recently, Bytemobile unveiled its new product line – the T3000 Adaptive Traffic Management System. 

Bytemobile's T3000 Series depicts the recent transition within the traffic management infrastructure to mobile networks which allow operators to manage millions of mobile subscribers' access to content and applications through one integrated platform.