Bichara Tecnologia, a technology provider supporting the Brazilian telecommunications market, and Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management and connectivity gateways, announced a partnership to provide short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), and wireless application protocol (WAP) solutions to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Brazil.
The agreement enables Bichara to deliver wireless services to MVNOs in Brazil, and its Executive Director Daniel Bichara expects to close three MVNO deals by the end of 2011. “One enterprise is signing contracts, and we have another MVNO testing our solutions. We believe we will have eight MVNO clients in the next 20 months,” Bichara projected.
Brazilian MVNO legislation was approved in November by Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel). Porto Seguro, a security insurance company, was the first one to announce its plans. More recently, Virgin Group also disclosed that will act as MVNO.
Bichara is a MVNE and will distribute Interop products in Brazil, offering solutions that could combine both Bichara and Interop products. “The company’s SMS, MMS, and WAP products will provide new MNVOs with the robust, scalable architecture necessary to support new markets effectively,” said Bichara. “The implementation can be customized, and we are prepared to support, host, deployment”, add Damian Sazama, vice president of corporate and product marketing for Interop.
It’s Interop first partnership in Brazil. As a result of the agrrement, Bichara expects that its MVNO vertical will garner revenues from R$ 7 million to R$ 8 million.
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