Silverstreet joins Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
November 12th, 2009 by simon
Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet has announced its official entry as the newest member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF).
As a member of MEF, Silverstreet joins a high-class range of leading global companies who are working to deliver mobile telecommunications guidelines, services and applications to mobile telecommunications operators and their customers. So as to solidify its own position and assist with the progression of MEF, Silverstreet aims to become an active member in both the EMEA and Asian chapters.
Silverstreet mobile solutions are already driving the adoption of many developed and emerging mobile operators by enabling the rapid development of a new phase in its mobile messaging platform with targets of catering more than 10 billion messages in 2010 which is more than five times the growth rate of 2009.
“I strongly believe our business can only multiply if we share,” said Mr. Simon Landsheer, Chief Commercial Officer of Silvertreet BV. “Silverstreet will be an asset to the forum given our global mobile knowledge and network”.
Establishing membership in MEF formalizes Silverstreets’s ongoing commitment to driving further innovation in the mobile telecommunications industry. Silverstreet currently offers mobile messaging services that include complex functions like traffic management, Quality of Service and Service Level Agreement (SLA) to government agencies, Mobile Network Operators, corporate level entities, non-profit organizations and aggregators.
“Participation in MEF enables Silverstreet to gain early insight into the mobile telecommunications requirements for mobile applications and services,” said Mr. Bas Peters, Chief Technology Officer at Silverstreet BV. “Understanding these requirements will drive Silverstreet’s research and technology development, enable application developers to deliver highly-innovative products to our customers.”
About Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
The Mobile Entertainment Forum was formed in 2000 to represent companies throughout the entire mobile entertainment value chain. As the global trade association of the mobile media industry, MEF works on behalf of its diverse membership to drive mobile entertainment adoption, shape regulation and deliver competitive advantage to its members.
With global headquarters in London, a Hollywood-based Americas secretariat, an Asian chapter in Singapore and the newly expanded EMEA branch, MEF’s network of members represents a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of mobile entertainment businesses and entrepreneurs. For more information and a full list of members please visit:
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Silverstreet announces Asia Pacific expansion
September 21st, 2009 by simon
Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet today announces its expansion to the Asia Pacific region.
The office will be based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This location is chosen because of its emerging environment and central location in the region.
The office will offer technical support services to clients in the Asia Pacific region as well as to the Silverstreet customer base located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Kuala Lumpur office is equipped with a 100% duplicate of the Network Operations Center of Silverstreet’s headquarters in Oosterhout, the Netherlands. With the opening of this office Silverstreet expands its technical support and monitoring service to true 24/7/365 availability for its customers.
Silverstreet will offer its full range of Mobile messaging and payment services to the Asia Pacific region. Customers in the Asia Pacific region can also benefit from Silverstreet’s Premium messaging connectivity in Europe while our European customers can soon benefit from our Premium messaging connectivity in the Asia Pacific region.
Silverstreet today also announces the appointment of Mr. William Ho as the Business Development manager for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Ho is a seasoned executive with 10 years of sales and marketing experience in developing new business and leading commercial negotiations in the Asia Pacific region. His previous posting was with Radius ED Sdn Bhd. He also spent 5 years with Virtual Commerce Sdn Bhd, a provider of financial data, bandwidth and infrastructure solutions to the banking and stockbroking sector in Malaysia. Mr. Ho will mostly focus on expanding Silverstreet’s clientele in the region.
“Expanding into this region was the next logical step. I’m confident we will be successful in this region because we have a very strong and professional team of people coming from similar and complementary industries” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer, who is currently primarily based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to oversee the expansion.
