DYNAMICSOFT EARNS QUALCOMM, UNEFON DEALS

Just days after playing a key role in Mexico's first nationwide push-to-talk launch, technology vendor dynamicsoft is preparing to announce a co-marketing agreement this week with Qualcomm.

The Parsippany, N.J., vendor's Service Engine platform was a fundamental support element in Sprint's ReadyLink P2T service several months ago and more recently supported the late June launch of P2T by Mexican mobile carrier Unefon.

Service Engine enables P2T features such as user registration and authentication, presence management and customer data distribution that can be used to create new, value-added services on top of P2T.

Now the registration server capability from dynamicsoft's platform will be used to manage user registration for Qualcomm's Q-Chat application, said Jim Tavares, vice president of marketing at dynamicsoft. “The registration server is part of the Service Engine platform we put in at Sprint and Unefon, but in these next-generation architectures we can deliver various elements as pieces, which is what we're doing with Qualcomm,” he said. Ironically, some parts of dynamicsoft's platform actually compete with Qualcomm's Q-Chat.

Tavares also said that dynamicsoft has three other carrier relationships that potentially could be announced in the next few months. The deployment at Unefon also involves the team of vendors that worked on Sprint's launch, with Motorola supplying its Winphoria switch, dynamicsoft providing the service infrastructure and Sanyo producing the P2T-enabled phones.

“The exciting thing is we have this whole ecosystem starting to form with handset vendors and other vendors,” Tavares said. “As time goes on, new partners will come on board to provide a richer set of capabilities.”