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Well i am working on the Ericsson Service Development studio - which by the way ran me into problems with fellow peace loving skunks (search thread "Solaris 10 problems") when i tried explaining what the IP Multimedia Subsystem is and how things run in there. i concur with Wes but i dont fault the 'local' telcos that much. from what i gather independently, Safaricom, Zain (hope they still use that name) and even Yu arent that much into R&D, they just pick on the latest idea. They leave the rest to the likes of Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, Huaweii, Alcatel etc who have very good VAS Departments which i believe dont just facilitate call forwading. these are the big boys to talk to. why do you think M-Pesa, Zap ,sambaza and eneza are similar in architecture?? Answer: one provider of the technology. Atleast locally Huaweii have done some good work that i know of concerning development of services. Back to SDS, its a very good platform to start with, kudos to Ericsson. reason? it is based on the IMS which is a SIP based environment that is all IP. when you critically analyse the current communication trends and study the 3GPP2 proposed architecture, you notice a slow but sure elimination of the traditinal nodes/systems in the core network that will eventually leave an all-IP based system. Now with a well structured IP network backed with highly promising fibre optic network, you can only imagine what endless possibilities there are, we are talking of ..........(my ideas:)! well its now done to you.......

God bless y'all!
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Garum <gilbert.arum@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi:

The APIs to the Telcos back-end infrastructure often developed and
owned by the different providers. Quite a number have made these
publicly available. For example: See
http://www.ericsson.com/developer/sub/warehouse/index.html

GA


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dennis Kioko<dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you should try approaching yu. they are innovative and look eager
> enough to adapt new ideas. Zain should be on the bottom of the list, the
> most they are eager enough is to change names.
>
> 2009/7/14 wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com>
>>
>> Hi yall,
>>
>> Can one of our ever competing Telcos develop a platform and expose APIs
>> that allow developers to plug in applications to their back-end
>> infrastructure that they hold dear? There are many developers who want to
>> build awesome mobile applications but they would like access to the Telcos
>> infrastructure for the application to make business/market sense. With all
>> these applications, come the subscribers.
>>
>> If there is a Telco out there willing to do the next big thing after
>> M-PESA, then I believe this is it.
>>
>> Have a department of skilled developers familiar with Telco stuff and the
>> department will be the link to the outside developers, providing knowledge,
>> support etc that a normal developer would need to plug in. Hopefully if at
>> all the developer is charged anything then it will be reasonable.
>>
>> O_o?
>>
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