Elephant Talk Announces Heads of Agreement with Tommy Telecom
07 April 2009 - 2:54PM
PR Newswire (US)
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elephant
Talk Communications, Inc. (OTC:ETAK) (BULLETIN BOARD: ETAK) , an
international telecom and multimedia content distributor
specializing in carrier grade mobile enabling platforms, today
announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement contract with
Tommy Telecom BV, a rapidly growing Mobile Virtual Network Operator
(MVNO) active on the Dutch market. Tommy Telecom will migrate its
customer base from their existing provider to the Elephant Talk
Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) platform immediately. Robert
van de Rhee, CEO of Tommy Telecom, stated, "Changing our provider
to Elephant Talk will immediately help grow our market share in the
Dutch market. Elephant Talk has superior flexibility and speed
combined with excellent reliability in service delivery. We have
found the perfect partner who can meet all of our prerequisites and
meet the needs of our individual clients." Bas Falkenburg, Business
Development Director of Tommy Telecom, added, "We chose the
flexible Elephant Talk MVNE platform since it compliments our
strategy of combining mobile telephony and the internet to create a
digital magazine platform to better facilitate access to our media-
and retail partners." "The state-of the art technology of Elephant
Talk's platform allows us to support the customer migration in a
matter of weeks and will help us along with the marketing power of
the Tommy Telecom team, create many new successful products for the
Dutch consumers," said Martin Zuurbier, CTO, of Elephant Talk. "We
believe strongly in the additional value we can create while
working together with Tommy Telecom. This is an excellent example
of the flexible capabilities of our platform. As we are entering
the next phase in the industry, MVNO's are requesting fast
compliancy to their dynamic needs without a higher upfront
investment or substantial increase in operational expenses.
Elephant Talk has one of the most advanced full MVNE systems in the
world combined with superior project managers for a fast
integration including a directly incorporated flexible CRM/Billing
solution which offers a wide range of possibilities designed
specifically for an individual client." About Tommy Telecom BV
Tommy Telecom BV, a rapidly growing MVNO in the Dutch market, is
founded in 2007. One of the specialties of Tommy Telecom is to
combine mobile offerings with marketing concepts aimed at many
different target groups in the residential market. For example,
currently Tommy Telecom is closely working together with the
'Nationale Postcode Loterij', a Dutch lottery organisation,
delivering complete mobile packages directly to lottery ticket
winners. About Elephant Talk Communications Elephant Talk
Communications is positioning itself as an international telecom
operator and enabler/systems integrator to the multimedia industry
by facilitating the distribution of all forms of content as well as
mobile and fixed telecom services to global telecommunications
consumers. The Company provides traditional telecom services, media
streaming, and distribution services primarily to the
business-to-business (B2B) community within the telecommunications
market where it has a presence. The Company's global footprint as a
fully licensed carrier, supported by its propriety IN (Intelligent
Network) and Billing/CRM (Client Relationship Management) Systems,
has been designed to offer cutting-edge solutions to the
increasingly competitive global multimedia industry. Elephant
Talk's telecommunications platform eliminates the usual limitations
caused by national borders, networks, devices or media and,
therefore, enables its B2B customers to operate as independent
telecom and multimedia distribution organizations. Elephant Talk is
also a system integrator and developer for mobile telecom and
content distribution solutions; and, as a Mobile Virtual Network
Enabler (MVNE), the company has positioned itself as the premier
outsourcing partner for both Mobile Network Operators (MNO's) as
well as for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO's). At the same
time, Elephant Talk assists its MNO partners to more efficiently
provide a broad range of sophisticated services to their own
existing base of MVNO's. Elephant Talk is positioning itself as the
preferred MVNE partner of the larger, global Mobile Operators and
currently operates sophisticated networks in over a dozen markets
in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. The Company was
ranked fifth on the Orange County 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
For more information, visit: http://www.elephanttalk.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained herein
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are based on current expectations,
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management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by management.
Readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are
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DATASOURCE: Elephant Talk Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Tommy
Telecom BV, Mr. Robert van de Rhee, +31 6 320 200 00, ,
http://www.tommytelecom.nl/; Elephant Talk Communications, Inc, Mr.
Steven van der Velden, +31 20 653 59 16, ,
http://www.elephanttalk.com/ Web Site: http://www.elephanttalk.com/
http://www.tommytelecom.nl/
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