The  video call allow 3G mobile users access services in mobility, in a very easy and fast way, without having to pay every month a data flat rate.

The mobile services don’t need difficult connection or configurations, the video call let the user enjoy contents and services just dialing a number.

The users get access in seconds, don’t need to wait for downloads or navigate on large menus to find the service needed.

The users pay the time they are using the service, don’t need flat data rates or special services activation on the mobile operator side, just like in a voice call, the users pay depending of the dialed number and the time connected.

The services could be completely free for the user if we use free numbers, the service provider will pay the cost to the mobile operator.

With the 3G videoapplications you can offer services already working on Internet, it don’t require important developments, just a small adjustment to the mobile channel, keeping all the processes and business rules already working on Internet.

Information phonebook services.
News services.
Stock information services.
Weather information services.
Traffic Information services.
Home surveillance services.

Video application DGT (Spanish official traffic info)

video call to +34 902 05 15 46

Video application Yellow pages

video call to +34  902 05 15 49

Video application Stock info

Video application Ski Stations

The video call is a mobile channel that allows the products and services sale on mobility, simple, intuitive, without having to learn how to use Internet, they just need to know how to dial a number.

The 3G videoapplications, although they are web-based, are mobile applications using the full multimedia power to interact with the user. The application offers different options to the user that uses the number keys of the mobile keypad to move through menus and choose what they want.

Because 3G videoapplications are webs can use the same systems and procedures used in the ONLINE Internet sale, making much more easy to develop these applications. For companies that already offer their services or products over Internet these does not mean more than an adaptation to the new environment, reusing all systems and business rules already developed.

Thus, any company offering products or services online, simply by making an adjustment to the new channel, will be able to sale through the mobile market and reach a potential customers universe much higher than the one offered by Internet today.

The 3G videoapplications are web3G, webs with a QCIF size(176×144) that allow the user to interact with the numeric keys on the keyboard, sites that may use similar systems already made for sale over the Internet.

The bus tickets, airplane, train, etc …
The sale of tickets for concerts, film, theater, sporting events …
The sale of CDs, books, electronics etc. …
The sale of content for mobile ringtones, backgrounds, videos and so on …
The sale of services, stock information, news, business, etc. ….
Sports betting, lotteries, gambling, etc. …

The videocall is one of the new features of the UMTS network (3G), this functionality enables video from 3G mobile phone.

The telephone operators thought that this functionality focused on video conference, two users with video, not only by voice, in a phone call, was going to revolutionize the market and drive the migration of the old mobile network (GSM) to the new (UMTS).

However, this has not happened in any country in the world, the videoconference will not be the service that added value to the new mobile telephone network. Users do not see the usefulness of this functionality, the ones that uses the video conference rarely repeat and the new users are not willing to try.

In the failure of the video conference have also collaborated telephone service advertising campaigns, that instead of showing specific utility instances, showed the other side of the service, how our wife or husband would be able to discover where are we, of course not where we said, or how our boss would call us and realize that we are not ill in bed, we are in a shopping mall, or even worse, when we are telling the truth it doesn’t look like that on the video call … A big disaster.

Now the technology has evolved and can offer more services, can offer video applications. The videoapplications allow the users to access content and services via the mobile phone just making a video call, it’s a new mobile channel.

There are already on the market different video call service that allow users to experience the simplicity and usefulness of this new channel.

If you are a La Caixa customer in internet, video call +34 902 734 115 with the same user and pwd you will log into your account. Try it!

La Caixa

http://portal.lacaixa.es/caixamovil/lineaabiertavideollamada_es.html

+34 902 734 115

Here is a sample of the operators advertising campaigns.

The Israeli multinational RADVISION, has chosen the PIMobile product of CESTEL to add to its 3G product offering. Since September 1 RADVISION will offer this solution to generate and manage the 3G content to all its customers in EMEA. (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

PIMobile provides flexibility and power to the hardware and software solution that RADVISION has on the market. RADVISION‘s customers may generate interactive videoapplications on any Web development system.

About RADVISION

RADVISION (NASDAQ: RVSN) is the industry’s leading provider of market-proven products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP, 3G and IMS networks. With its complete set of standards-based video networking infrastructure and developer toolkits for voice, video, data and wireless communications, RADVISION is driving the unified communications evolution by combining the power of video, voice, data and wireless – for high definition video conferencing systems, innovative converged mobile services, and highly scalable video-enabled desktop platforms on IP, 3G and emerging next-generation IMS networks. For more information about RADVISION, visit www.radvision.com.

About CESTEL

CESTEL  has developed PIMobile, generation and content management solution for 3G mobile. PIMobile can offer via a video call interactive videoapplications in the 3G mobile phone. The videoaplications are generated with any web tools or Web technologies, Flash, HTML, Java. . Net, PHP etc. .. because there are nothing more than websites with a QCIF size (176 x 144) that allow interact with the keyboard numbers. The videoapplications can be hosted in any web server in the world, its management and updating are independent of PIMobile technology  that simply makes a bridge between the 3G video call and URL content.

Esquema PIMobile puente entre una videollamada y una URL

The 3G video call is already the new mobile channel.

The video call offers major advantages over the other mobile channels.

The video call is a very easy way to offer contents to the mobile users, even if the don´t have internet culture, they will be able to access and enjoy the services and contents available in data just making a simple video call.

The video call enables Internet World companies to offer their services and contents to a much larger universe of potential clients, we should not forget that the internet mobile users are a subset of the ineternet users, and they are far to represent the  potential customers majority.

As an example of content  application we have YOUTUBE, many people hear about YOUTUBE but they can not access to this content on the web, either because they don´t have internet connection, either because  they don´t have  “internet culture”.

With the mobile phone and just making a call (video call) to +34 902 051 548 any mobile phone user can enjoy the video everybody talk about.

To see how video calls can enable services to people with no “internet culture”, services like buying bus tickets, cinema tickets, betting, ONLINE banking, etc .. Here is La Caixa example ….

If you are La Caixa customer you can access the ONLINE banking services just making a video call. You will be able to see your account movements, your balance, you could make a money transfer, etc ..

The video call is one of the new functionality that the UMTS mobile network offer to the users.

This is not a data-based service, this functionality enables the transmission of video and audio in the same channel.

The new mobile network UTMS is being deployed throughout Europe and will substitute the old GSM network that has been used until now. In Europe already more than 35% of the mobile phones are 3G and this number increases every day.

The video call is a functionality that comes with the mobile phone and the operator contract, like the voice calls. The user don’t have to activate, configure or preinstall it, the user just dials a number and choose the video call instead of voice call option

To make a video call you just have to do something you already know, DIAL A NUMBER, the phone gives us the option to make a voice call or a video call

To use the video call is worthy any 3G mobile phone. The videoapplications are universal and will work the same way independently of the 3G mobile we are using. This is a solution for one of the biggest problems the mobile industry have to offer content on a mobile phone, until know they had to create different contents for diferents mobile phones.

The video call uses a standard video format 3GP

All 3G-Web applications must conform to QCIF width conditions and be applicable to numerical mobile-telephone dial pads.3G Webs have revolutionized the world of video-applications by allowing servers to store whatever content they wish to offer – to users anywhere in the world.  

Moreover, all the experience and existing tools pertaining to Web-application development are directly applicable to generating new video-applications.Thus, any Web-content developer can now create Web-applications — 3G Web content – for the enjoyment of any and all with a 3G terminal.

While most users say they find this service useful — but only to SEE the person they have called – advertising campaigns by operators around the world have done little to tap this channel’s full potential. Moreover, technical complications not common to tradition audio-calls have caused a certain market reticence.

But by making a simple video-call, you can now access 3G-platform content. Instead of calling another person, you call a service. The service in question sends you a video presentation and pre-recorded video options.

Video-applications are 3G Web applications, no different than those on the net. They are created with the same tools and stored like any other file. The only requirements are respecting the QCIF size limitations and specifying the interactive DTMF parameters.