Kineto Wireless Receives IET Telecommunications Innovation Award
Milpitas, Calif., November 11, 2011
Kineto Wireless, the key innovator and leading supplier of Smart Wi-Fi solutions for mobile operators, today announced its Smart Wi-Fi Application has been awarded the 2011 Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) Innovation Award for Telecommunications.
Kineto’s Smart Wi-Fi Application is the industry’s only smartphone application that delivers an intelligent offload solution while improving mobile coverage using existing Wi-Fi access points. The application provides users with an identical mobile voice, SMS and data service experience over Wi-Fi as they receive on the outdoor cellular network.
Upon making the award, the judging panel commented: “This is an intriguing and potentially significant opportunity that addresses a growing need. It represents a hugely important new business approach and the proposers clearly have a good deployment position. It is the future - and the currently only known way to get a mobile network with enough capacity for the future.”
The awards recognise the most innovative companies operating within a wide variety of engineering and technology disciplines, including Telecommunications, and provide industry innovators around the globe with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their imagination and breadth of innovation.
“We’re delighted to have received the 2011 IET Innovation Award for Telecommunications which acknowledges our efforts and commitment to driving innovation within the industry,” said Steve Shaw, vice president of corporate marketing, Kineto Wireless. “Kineto’s Smart Wi-Fi Application has been proven to improve mobile service quality and drive data offload. With the help of our operator partners, we hope to build on the success Smart Wi-Fi has seen to date.”
About Kineto Wireless, Inc.
Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of Smart Wi-Fi solutions for mobile operators. The company's solutions enable mobile operators to turn more than 200 million existing public and private Wi-Fi access points into seamless extensions of their mobile networks. With Smart Wi-Fi, subscribers can receive all their mobile services over Wi-Fi instead of the macro network, boosting indoor coverage and improving the mobile data experience, while securely offloading the mobile network. The company's Smart Wi-Fi products and services, based on the 3GPP UMA/GAN standard, have been deployed by mobile operators around the world. Kineto customers and partners include HTC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Orange, RIM, Rogers Wireless, SFR, Samsung, T-Mobile and ZTE.
For more information, please visit kineto.com, and follow Kineto at twitter.com/kinetowireless.
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