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Press Release
12 June 2008, Hindustan Times
City quite a gainful game for Goldfinch
Company set to start a gaming web portal, which was big success in Hong Kong, Malaysia
Bhawani Nagi, Chandigarh, June 12
Goldfinch Mobile Solutions, Hong Kong, is eying Chandigarh as a potential market to launch its gaming web portal and multiplayer gaming through cellular services.
Talking to Hindustan Times, Goldfinch Mobile Solutions chief executive Newton Bubber said that in the years to come, mobile services would get more interactive with the gaming web portal. He said they were mulling starting their venture from the city and were all set to bring the expertise in India after its success in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Newton said, “Gaming is not refined in India as it is in USA and South East Asia. India is still not a mature market in gaming. Receiving a good go-ahead in the last three months, meetings were being held with the existing cellular operators in the country, besides structuring and finalizing deals, likely to take off by the year 2008,”
The Goldfinch platform having dual benefits for operators would also help building interactive communities for avid gaming customers on mobile, bringing alive multi-player gaming environment in telecom network, he said.
While a standard gaming service only allows users to download simple games, play and discard, Goldfinch would bring new dimensions in the gaming environment, he added. Gaming brings excellent interaction of mobile gamers on WAP to exclusive gaming WEB domain, built for operators by Goldfinch, said Newton.
Since most of the gaming players have access to the Internet, the WAP and WEB interaction enhance customer engagement, which results in happy experience for customers, strong communities and increase revenue for operator, he said.
The multi-player gaming option allows multiple customers to play same game at the same time. The platform increases engagement of customers while also giving opportunity to gamers to have interesting gaming session with other customers, who are online, he stated. Furthermore the platform also supports tournaments for avid gamers, live events and most importantly, prize redemption on WAP and WEB based on points accumulated by operator’s customers, said Newton.
Elaborating about Goldfinch, he said that it brings innovative and revenue earning services to GSM, CDMA and Fixed Line operators across the world, building partnership with clients through Managed Service Model.
He said Goldfinch works on all signaling technologies (SS7, ISDN, VOIP) and platforms (SMSC, IVRS, USSD, GPRS, CMS) to bring innovative services like myMusic, myChat, myFilter, background tones, USSD VAS, OBDs and device manager for telecom operators, he disclosed.
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