Pressbox: Comfone AG

Comfone wins 'Best Wireless Broadband Roaming Product or Solution' at Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards

Prestigious award honouring outstanding leadership and vision in Roaming goes to WeRoam – GSM and WLAN united solution

(PresseBox) Bern, 22.04.2009, Comfone, provider of roaming services to more than 300 operators in over 125 countries, has been awarded for its WeRoam solution the title of 'Best Wireless Broadband Roaming Product or Service' by a panel of independent judges at the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards.

WeRoam specialises in wholesale mobility management and roaming solutions for the fixed and mobile telecommunications sector. Its patented open roaming platform connects to nearly 60 WISPs and offers an aggregated footprint of more than 55’000 hotspots. Key solutions found in GSM technology make up the WeRoam solution thus positioning WeRoam as the only open roaming platform supporting username/password and SIM based authentication for WLAN Roaming. All solutions easily integrate with existing products of Internet, Enterprise, GSM and VoIP service providers.

The winners of this year's Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards were selected from more than 170 nomination entries from 35 countries across the world by a panel of world-leading experts. “WeRoam has proven itself as a true Wireless Broadband Innovation Award finalist by providing excellence and innovation in a highly competitive market place. WeRoam is well-positioned to grow into the future,” said Michael Gebert, Organiser of WBI Awards. This year, all finalists have shown themselves to be highly innovative in their approach to wireless applications and deployments. The WBI Awards’ judges have recognised several large scale deployments in healthcare, resources, transportation and especially municipal wireless, with Europe, the USA and Japan competing in this strong category.

Toni Stadelmann, Board Member of Comfone AG, commented, “It is a great honour to receive this prestigious award for our WeRoam roaming solution. The award reflects our commitment to delivering innovative solutions of the highest standard that will enrich the wireless broadband industry. We are confident that our success in delivering roaming solutions for the Wireless industry will optimize each operator's roaming processes and increase the efficiency of mobile roaming.”

Comfone enables global connectivity and simplified roaming procedures for mobile operators and network providers through a choice of different roaming hubbing solutions. Comfone Key2roam Hub, currently interconnecting 107 live members, takes over full financial liability on behalf of the client operators. Comfone GCS, a technical hub, provides centralisation of signalling and roaming management for operators. Further Comfone hubs include SMS and MMS Hubs as well as Comfone’s WeRoam solution, an open roaming platform connecting over 60 Wireless ISPs and providing an aggregated footprint of more than 55’000 hotspots around the world.

About Comfone AG

About Comfone
Comfone, provider of roaming services to more than 300 operators in over 125 countries, is known throughout the telecoms industry as an international mobile roaming specialist. Comfone's industry know-how owes itself to over ten years’ of experience and customer-orientated in-house expertise.

Through its unique portfolio and additional value added services, Comfone fully optimises each operator's roaming processes, thus increasing the efficiency of mobile roaming. The company’s portfolio ranges from the complete outsourcing of roaming, to individual elements, such as signalling, hubbing, data, WLAN roaming, convergence and clearing services. WeRoam is a trademark of Comfone’s services in wholesale mobility management and roaming solutions for Wireless IP telecommunications (WLAN & WiMAX). Comfone's active participation in GSMA standardisation groups ensures that its innovative solutions are market-driven and meet the requirements of its substantial worldwide customer base.

Comfone employs nearly 100 multicultural staff at its headquarters in Bern. From its regional offices covering Europe, Latin America, North America, Central Asia and Asia Pacific, Comfone is well placed to support its customers throughout the world. Learn more about Comfone at www.comfone.com.

About Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards
WBI Awards Ltd is a Birmingham, UK, based independent institution, organizing the strongly contested independent Awards for users and service providers of wireless broadband worldwide. The WBI Award categories cover excellence in service provision; in enterprise deployment by the end-user; in product development; and personal and corporate achievement. An independent judging panel has selected the winners. For further information see www.wbiawards.com

Contact at Comfone:
Comfone AG
Louise Ledsom
Communications Manager
Tel: +41 (0) 31 341 11 74
Fax: +41 (0) 31 341 10 11
Email: Louise.Ledsom@comfone.com

Contact at WBI Awards Ltd.:
WBI Awards Ltd.
Michael Gebert
Awards Organizer
T +49 (89) 25557 5680
F +49 (89) 25557 5681
Email: mgebert@wbiaward.com

Further press release of this company

• 27.07.2011 - Peter Rippstein named as Comfone EVP Global Sales
• 18.01.2011 - Comfone Signs Up With HarborLink Network to Extend Carrier Wi-Fi...
• 20.10.2010 - 23 African, Asian and European Operators adopt industry-leading...
• 18.08.2010 - Comfone launches ROM - its new Optimisation & Monitoring Tool...
• 07.07.2010 - Comfone's rapid growth in GRX underscores its strong position...
• 11.05.2010 - Comfone proudly announces the launch of its innovative new Data...