QoS/VAS Deployments (27): Alltel Wireless Uses ByteMobile for Traffic Management and Parental Control

  

Bytemobile announced that "Alltel Wireless has selected Bytemobile's integrated web, video and gateway platform to manage the accelerating volume and changing mix of traffic on its high-speed network ..and will also deploy Bytemobile's content filtering solution enabling parents to manage content on their children's mobile devices"

See "Alltel Wireless Picks Bytemobile for Web, Video and Gateway Traffic Management" - here.

Parental control seems to gain traction recently - see posts about TalkTalk (UK- here), CSL  (Hong Kong - here), Orange (France - here) and Cellcom (Israel - here) sometimes as a result of regulation and sometime as a paid VAS. See also "Web Filtering Study from Sprouts" - here.
 

Allied Wireless Communications Corporation serves more than 800,000 subscribers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, and Idaho which were acquired from Verizon Wireless for $200M  - here.

Ken Borner, vice president of Engineering & Network Operations, Alltel Wireless said: ".. Bytemobile .. helps us realize data revenue growth and data delivery cost savings while providing a superior mobile internet experience. Bytemobile's platform will enable us to cost-effectively deliver open web browsing to subscribers on all wireless handheld devices. We are also able to offer them protection from inappropriate content."