Don’t Miss…
- The approved official version of the joyn Blackbird PDD is now available. Download it here!
- Mavenir wins two IMS Industry Awards for Voice over LTE and RCS 5 Solutions and Launches. Read more.
- Huawei announced what they claim as the industry’s first WebRTC based rich communications capability exposure gateway. Read more.
- The Art of Messaging. Acision over the last 12 months, have witnessed the momentum build around the GSMA’s Rich Communication Suite of services (RCS), as operators around the world start to roll it out under the consumer brand ‘joyn’.
- Rich Communication Services Can Unlock The Value Of Systems Of Engagement. The joyn Initiative will help evolve engagement strategies. Read the latest Forrester Research report.
- Movistar, Orange and Vodafone launch the first joyn native devices in Spain. joyn will be embedded in phones from HTC, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony. Read more.
- Germany has become the first market to launch a joyn iOS app. Available for both customers of Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, joyn can be downloaded on the App Store! Read the press release of Vodafone
- SK Telecom’s joyn-branded RCS offering quickly draws 1M users.
- joyn comes of age at Mobile World Congress. joyn demos impress at Mobile World Congress 2013. The Joyn demonstrations from KT, Metro, Vodafone, Orange and Telefonica are a world away from those somewhat scratchy RCS demos of two years ago. Read more.
- Neusoft Mobile Solutions receives Silver Award from GSMA joyn Innovation Challenge. Neusoft’s ‘Family joyn’ client is expanding the communication capability within the daily life. The application is mainly targeted at family members who are the most vulnerable and at the same time most valuable – children and elders. Read the press release
- joyn: Next-Generation Business Communications. ‘Deutsche Telekom launched the joyn messaging service in Germany today. It is hardly the first carrier to do so; Telefonica, Vodafone, MetroPCS, and SK Telecom have already launched such services. But Deutsche Telekom’s launch gives me the chance to point to an opportunity for joyn that has not been talked about a lot so far.’ Read more
- Enhancing the mobile experience for customers: Zain to pilot ‘joyn’ platform. Zain Group, a pioneer in mobile telecommunications in 8 markets across the Middle East and North Africa, today announces that it will pilot Rich Communications Services (RCS) under the ‘joyn’ initiative launched by the GSM Association, in Zain Kuwait, with other operations to follow. Read the press release
- Deutsche Telekom launches joyn Messaging Service. Deutsche Telekom customers now have access to the joyn messaging platform. joyn, based on a common technical standard of mobile network operators, supports a range of functions, including group chat, file transfers throughout a range of different file formats and live video sharing during voice calls. Read the press release.
- MetroPCS and Jibe Mobile to Open Rich Communications Services to All North American Wireless Subscribers. Read more
- Find out who the joyn Innovation Challenge Winners are!
- Gold Award – Smart Remittance, from Vopium (Press release).
- Silver Award – Mobile Solutions – Family joyn – a family member location app using joyn.
- Special Award for Innovation – Three entries from KT; Group Call, Magic Screen Share and Video Share. common technical standard of mobile network operators, supports a range of functions, including group chat, file transfers throughout a range of different file
- Solaiemes enabling M2P, machine to person using joyn API.
- Read the article of Fierce Wireless (the registration is free).
- South Korean operators launch joyn. The new communications platform integrates messaging, voice, and data services. With the move, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus aim to compete with free mobile messenger services which have gained popularity in the country recently. The joyn app is free to download at mobile apps stores. Read SK Telecom & KT press releases.
- Spanish Mobile Operators Launch Nationwide joyn Services. Movistar, Orange and Vodafone, have launched Rich Communication Services (RCS) through the consumer-facing brand joyn to their customers. With this launch, Spain becomes the first country in the world to offer a fully interoperable rich communications solution.
- Mavenir Brings RCS 5 to Life. Mavenir Systems confirmed that the RCS 5 version of the GSMA’s Rich Communication Services has been fully integrated into its converged services product portfolio. The development makes the company the first to offer full RCS 5 solutions including voice, video and messaging solutions.
- MetroPCS Takes Consumer Mobile Experience to New Levels as the First 4GLTE Mobile Service Provider in the World to Deploy Rich Communication Services.
