Context Connect Announce Agreement with British Telecom (BT) in the United Kingdom
Boxford, Massachusetts – May 29, 2003 – Context Connect, Inc. (“CCI”), a leading provider of next generation directory assistance and directory solutions, has signed an agreement with British Telecom (BT) in the United Kingdom. The CCI Solution enables consumers to find mobile subscribers through a directory assistance (DA) or directory enquiry (DQ) platform. The rollout of CCI’s DQ/DA to Mobile Solution is the primary focus and intention of the agreement with BT. CCI has also signed an agreement with Cable & Wireless (C&W) to trial the CCI Directory Platform.
With the CCI technology, individual consumers can self-provision their directory listing, allowing them to control and manage who can find them. The CCI contextual, DNS-based platform enables directory listings beyond the traditional ‘name and address’ listings, allowing for more effective searching for individuals – based on how people know each other, either professionally or socially.
The CCI platform also provides connectivity to mobile consumers, via DA/DQ, without the need for the actual consumer phone number – thus the valuable customer information is not revealed by participating operators.
“We are excited about working with both British Telecom (BT) and Cable & Wireless (C&W) in the UK. As privacy and consumer control are key issues with directory information, the involvement of key carriers with our self-provisioning directory platform will help drive the industry to new revenue opportunities,” says Robert Stern, CEO and President of Context Connect.
Context Connect will also provide enterprise directory and identity management solutions to carriers through its contextual directory platform – thus expanding and extending the effectiveness of directory listings.
About
Context Connect
Context Connect is a leading provider of directory assistance and directory-based solutions. Context Connect enables users to ‘find and connect’ to each other across multiple devices and provider networks through a contextual, DNS-based connectivity platform – thus enabling wireless directory assistance (WDA). CCI also provides enterprise directory solutions and identity management services through its contextual platform. CCI has formed partnerships with leading companies such as Nuance, Agile, Sitel, SAIC-Telcordia, Unisys and Mercator Partners. CCI is headquartered in Boxford, Massachusetts, with regional offices in London and Wellington, New Zealand.
BT Retail
BT Retail is one of the businesses that make up the BT Group. Others include BT Ignite, BT Wholesale, BT Openworld and BTexact Technologies. It is the UK’s leading communications service provider and the prime channel to market for the other businesses in the Group. It has 21 million residential and business customers, a turnover of 12.1bn (in the last full financial year) and around 50,000 employees.
Cable & Wireless
Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of over £5.9 billion (US$8.6 billion) in the year to 31 March 2002 and customers in 80 countries. It consists of two core and complementary divisions: Cable & Wireless Regional and Cable & Wireless Global. Cable & Wireless Regional offers a full range of telecommunications services in 33 countries around the world, with major businesses in the Caribbean, Panama, the Middle East and Macau. Cable & Wireless Global provides IP (internet protocol), voice and data services and managed solutions for business customers. It has developed advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. Building on its strong national businesses in the UK and Japan, Cable & Wireless Global will focus on serving primarily multinational companies (both enterprises and service providers) in the US, UK, continental Europe and Japan/Asia.
For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com.
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