In today’s competitive telecom environment, consumers want more from their mobile phones than just the ability to make and receive calls. Value added services are becoming a necessity for the mobile operators to differentiate themselves from competition and reduce churn. The banking industry on the other hand is reaching out to their customers via the ubiquitous, omnipresent mobile phone. It is very evident and as everyone is talking, the convergence of Telecom, Retail, and Banking is here and here to stay.
Our value-driven approach has led to development of focused Telecom applications, maximizing the enormous potential of mobile communication subscribers to enhance the reach, impact and effectiveness of our customer’s operations.
With our extensive experience in the Payment and Retail domains, we are ideally placed to help our partners build and deploy innovative solutions that act as an interface between Banking and Telecom worlds - creating new opportunities by establishing access to new groups of customers.
Applications
We have worked with Axalto (now Gemalto) on extensively for 3 years on telecom products helping them expand their SIM Application product portfolio and build end-to-end solutions. Applications built by us on the SIM platform serve diverse needs such as stock trading, mobile advertising, and SMS / phonebook productivity. Some examples of SIM applications built at Pine Labs:
Stock Trading
Stock trading is a comprehensive service offering a range of trading options from checking a stock price to managing a stock portfolio. keeps you in touch with stock portfolio fluctuations, anywhere, anytime implements instant, secure buy/sell orders provides alerts of critical price variation for selected stocks
SIMCare
SIMCare is an application designed to provide all the kinds of information to answer your enquiries without the need to call an operator's customer support service. SIMCare aims to improve your user experience with instant help screens on typical service set-up and technical difficulties.
MobiAd
MobiAd exploits the potential of the mobile phone screen as an advertising platform – sending appropriate and discreet advertising texts on the screen. No aggressive handset beeping, no SMS messages to clog up your inbox, and no invasive audio messages. Responding is simple, by sending an SMS or placing a call.
MobiStreet
Mobistreet is a flexible way of offering affordable mobile communication on demand through airtime reselling in the street. It opens access to low income users who pay by the second according to displayed activity reports. For resellers it offers a low entry barrier to start quickly and reach flexible retail margins.