Bell Mobility Selects FusionOne to Provide Mobile Phone Address Book Backup and Restore Services
Written by FusionOne
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Bell Mobility Deployment Represents Many “Firsts” for FusionOne’s
MightyBackup Offering, Providing Canadian Clients With Enhanced Access
to Mobile Phone Contacts
SAN JOSE, Calif.-- FusionOne, the leading provider of mobile phone backup services, today announced that Bell Mobility, the wireless division of Canada’s largest communications company, has selected FusionOne as its provider of mobile contacts backup and restore services.
Pre-loaded on Bell Mobility’s newest mobile phones, FusionOne’s MightyBackup service safeguards consumers’ mobile phone address book and restores the information if the phone is upgraded, lost, stolen or damaged.
Bell Mobility’s deployment of the MightyBackup service represents a breakthrough for FusionOne on a number of fronts:
* First Canadian deployment of the backup service
* First commercial deployment of MightyBackup on the Java platform
* First deployment of MightyBackup pre-installed on a handset
* First fully integrated billing system
* First multi-language support deployment (English and French)
“We are very pleased to introduce FusionOne’s comprehensive address book backup and restore services to Canada,” said Nauby Jacob, director, product development, Bell Mobility. “They provide clients the peace of mind of knowing that the content of their mobile address book is protected and retrievable whenever they need it.”
Bell Mobility calls the service Backup Manager, and offers it to clients at CDN $3.00 per month.
Bell Mobility’s Backup Manager provides address book protection against loss or damage to a mobile phone, and easy migration when clients want to upgrade their phones. In addition, with the pre-installation of Backup Manager onto the handset, more subscribers can easily access the service and ensure protection for their mobile phone address books. No other solution can provide this level of ease-of-use and protection. The service is currently preloaded on the LG Muziq and Samsung r610 mobile phones from Bell Mobility.
“We are excited to add Bell, with its base of over six million mobile clients, to our growing list of global customers,” said Rick Onyon, founder of FusionOne. “The increased value of backup services is evident in the continued growth and momentum we are experiencing as a company. Now, with the availability of MightyBackup on the Java platform, as well as the ability to pre-install the service directly onto the handset, we believe that Bell Mobility’s Backup Manager will be a very popular service.”
FusionOne’s MightyBackup service, which is used by numerous global carriers, protects more than 400 million mobile phone contacts. MightyBackup, built on the robust and patented FusionOne Mobile Platform, wirelessly backs up the mobile phone address book to FusionOne’s secure data center, keeps the information continually up-to-date and automatically transfers the records when the user replaces or upgrades their mobile phone. This affordable service enables online management of the address book, automatic recovery of information and secure protection for the valuable contact information stored on a user’s mobile phone.
About FusionOne
FusionOne offers a suite of premier mobile applications that help consumers protect and manage the personal content on their mobile phones, including contacts, calendar, photos, music and messages. FusionOne pioneered mobile phone backup and offers the industry’s leading backup service supporting millions of customers, currently offered on 15 wireless carriers worldwide. FusionOne is an established leader of mobile content backup through its patented wireless synchronization platform and its close relationships with key industry associations including the Open Mobile Alliance, Qualcomm BREW Developer’s group and the Symbian Connectivity Partner Program. Founded in 1998, FusionOne is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Tallinn, Estonia. For more information, visit www.FusionOne.com.
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