“Wireless carriers worldwide recognize the value that people see in using mobile technology to check on the whereabouts of their friends and family members,” said Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of WaveMarket. “By partnering with MTS Allstream, WaveMarket is giving families, individuals and business owners throughout Manitoba access to secure, highly advanced, and personalized information from any Internet connection.”
MTS Allstream’s launch marks WaveMarket’s sixth commercial deployment of its industry-leading family location solution. Family Finder also is available from Aliant and Bell Mobility in Canada, Sprint Nextel and Alltel in the United States and Vivo, Latin America's largest mobile carrier. Using the WaveMarket service, MTS Allstream wireless customers now can locate wireless devices belonging to friends and family on-demand and set up regular location checks, allowing them to be notified when a contact has changed locations.
“Family Finder provides wireless carriers with a fast, cost-effective way to leverage the power of GPS to meet customer demand,” Roumeliotis said. “MTS Allstream is the latest example of the rapidly growing worldwide market for Family Finder.”
About WaveMarket
WaveMarket Inc., headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., is a world leader in mobile location-based search and services, offering a software product suite that includes both white-label solutions and mobile platform components. White-label solutions include WaveMarket’s industry-leading family finder, search, and asset tracker services, with more than a half-dozen commercial deployments in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. WaveMarket’s mobile platform components include turn-by-turn navigation, mobile social networking and dynamic tiled mapping, all designed to be commercially deployed with partner brands such as the WaveMarket-designed and engineered Ask Mobile GPS. Marketing to brands and mobile carriers in the United States, Europe and Asia, WaveMarket's customers include top tier North American carriers Sprint Nextel, Alltel, Bell Mobility, Aliant, and MTS Allstream, Vivo in Brazil, and SK Telecom, South Korea's leading wireless carrier. Founded in 2000, the company is financed by a group that includes Draper Fisher Jurvetson, QUALCOMM Ventures, BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), Intel Capital, and Mitsui Ventures.
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