Context Connect Announce Agreement with Cable & Wireless (C&W) with CCI Directory Platform
Boxford, Massachusetts – May 28, 2003 – Context Connect, Inc. (“CCI”), a leading provider of next generation directory assistance and directory solutions, has signed an agreement with Cable & Wireless (C&W) in the United Kingdom to trial the CCI Directory Platform. The CCI Solution enables consumers to find mobile subscribers through a directory assistance (DA) or directory enquiry (DQ) platform and provides Enterprises with an effective... [Read More...]
Context Connect Announces Fourth Round of Funding
Boxford, Massachusetts – April, 2 2003 – Context Connect, Inc. (“CCI”) announces the closing of the first tranche of a Series B investment round with participation from all existing investors including, SITEL Corporation (NYSE:SWW) and Equity Resources Group, an investment firm based in Cambridge, MA. Over the next ninety days CCI expects to raise additional funds to complete this round of funding. The proceeds from the funding will be used... [Read More...]
Context Connect Allocated Additional Directory Enquiry Numbers in the UK – 118860 and 118870
London, United Kingdom – March 31, 2003 – Context Connect, Inc. announced that it has been allocated 11 88 60 and 11 88 70 Directory Enquiry Numbers in the UK. Since Dec 2002, the UK DQ market has been deregulated with a number of players entering the directory enquiry marketplace, thus ending BT’s monopoly of the DA/DQ market (the 192 DQ service) in the UK. The experience of directory enquiry deregulation in other European countries has... [Read More...]
Context Connect Allocated 118282 Directory Enquiry Number in the UK
London, United Kingdom – May 23, 2002 – Context Connect, Inc. announced that it has been provisionally allocated 11 82 82 following Oftel’s recent Directory Enquiry (DQ) Lottery procedure. The decision by Oftel, the British Telecommunications Regulator, means that BT’s monopoly of the DA/DQ market (the 192 DQ service) will no longer exist. The numbers allocation process is the first step in leveling the playing field for directory... [Read More...]
Context Connect opens London Office
Los Altos, California - February 2, 2002. Responding to demand for its DQ services in Europe, Context Connect has established a London Presence at 10 Stratton Street in Mayfair. In addition the company Head Office will relocate to Boston over the next few months to be better able to service its European Clients. Context Connect also has software development centre in New Zealand capitalizing on the low cost of development in the region and to focus... [Read More...]
Context Connect Announces Third Round of Financing
Los Altos, California – November 18, 2001 – Context Connect, Inc. announces an investment round led by Sitel Corporation (NYSE: SWW), the world’s leading contact center expert and the Equity Resource Group, an investment firm based in Cambridge, MA, with participation from the Gould Fund, the venture arm of Bingham Dana, LLP. “The financing round will enable us to rollout our technologies in Europe, Australasia and other markets throughout... [Read More...]
SITEL Partners in World Wide Rollout of the Context Connect Mobile Connectivity Technology
Baltimore, Maryland and Los Altos, California — November 12, 2001 — SITEL Corporation (NYSE: SWW), the world’s leading contact center expert and Context Connect, Inc. (CCI), a leading provider of fixed line and wireless connectivity services, today announced a teaming agreement which provides for joint marketing of CCI’s unique patent pending wireless communication device directory services solution and SITEL’s global customer support services.... [Read More...]
Former Chairman of BellSouth Australia and Director of Optus Joins Context Connect Board of Advisors
Los Altos, California, May 26, 2001 - Context Connect, Inc. (“CCI”), a leading provider of wireline and wireless directory services, today announced that Terry Winters has joined its Board of Advisors. Mr. Winters is the former Director of Optus and Chairman of BellSouth Australia and New Zealand. “Adding a senior executive of Terry Winters’ experience and stature will help accelerate the rollout of our connectivity solution to wire... [Read More...]
Context Connect teams up with Nuance to deliver Carrier-Class Speech Solutions
Los Altos, California — March 1, 2001 — Context Connect, Inc. (CCI) today announced that it has teamed up with Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN), the leader in Voice Web software, and joined the Nuance Partner Alliance. As a program member, CCI will integrate Nuance speech recognition and voice authentication software into their innovative line of connectivity applications, directory products and services, and market them to telecommunications carriers around... [Read More...]
Context Connect Announces Second Round of Financing
Los Altos, California - February 23, 2001 - Context Connect, Inc. announces an equity investment from the Equity Resources Group Inc., an investment firm based in Cambridge, MA, and the Gould Fund, the venture arm of Bingham Dana, LLP. “The financing round provided by the Equity Resources Group and a follow on investment by the Gould Fund Ltd. will enable us to rollout our technologies in Australasia and other markets throughout the world,”... [Read More...]
