Novarra has partnered with Tata Indicom, a subdivision of Tata Teleservices, one of India’s fastest growing telecoms with more than 20 million users. Tata Indicom will actively extend Novarra’s Visions platform to customers with enabled handsets. The service includes Novarra’s trademarked Mobile Dashboard, which enables consumers to get instant one-click access to popular websites, as well as e-mail and search functions.
“We are pleased that Tata Indicom recognizes that the Internet is a critical daily-use application, for all ages and walks of life. Removing the handicap of requiring a computer and a cable is a key step forward for consumers and the mobile industry," Novarra COO Bruce Simpson said. "Novarra's server and micro-client solutions have been designed to give consumers a fast and rich mobile experience on any mobile phone. The Vision platforms provide robustness and scalability for large-scale deployments."
“Novarra's Vision server is the industry's first platform with dynamic support for industry WAP/HTML browsers, as well as high performance HTML micro-clients (Java, BREW and C++) which boost consumer usability and performance,” said a Novarra press release. “The proven, carrier-grade platform for next-generation content and services delivers the benefits of content adaptation, content reduction, acceleration, optimization, filtering and services definition on a single platform. Built upon open standards, with support for portals and advertising, the Vision server fits seamlessly within content, network and billing infrastructure. Novarra's full browsers and micro-clients provide industry leading performance and mobile usability across open-OS handsets.”
Navarro also collaborated with technology giant Qualcomm to utilize Qualcomm Single Chip QSC 6020 to develop the mobile Internet platform.
At the beginning of December, Novarra struck a similar deal with 3 Macau, aka Hutchinson Telecom Macau, a division of Hutchinson International Telecommunications, which offers mobile and fixed-line telecommunications services in Hong Kong, and operates mobile telecommunication services in Israel, Macau, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Indonesia and Vietnam.
3 Macau has launched a high-speed mobile Internet service, 3Xplorer, powered by Novarra's Vision platform. The service is available to 3 Macau customers in Chinese or English on more than 70 of the “3G” or third generation handsets offered by 3 Macau, and gives consumers one-touch Internet accessibility, improved speeds and user-friendly interfaces.
"Our Vision Internet platform for next-generation services is highly scalable and provides a compelling user experience across low and high-tier phones," Novarra CEO Jayanthi Rangarajan said. "We are pleased that 3 Macau realizes the possibilities created when you combine a 3G network with an innovative platform that increases data usage while offering the integration of future services."
