Success Stories
Content Filtering
Here are thumbnails of just a few of Bytemobile’s 115 live commercial deployments worldwide.
Alltel Wireless Deploys Bytemobile Content Filtering to Launch Parental Controls Dashboard Application
In February 2008, Alltel Wireless, then operator of the largest wireless network in the U.S. and now part of Verizon Wireless, launched Alltel Parental Controls, a content filtering application enabling parents to block their children’s access to potentially offensive internet content. The application utilizes a comprehensive database of websites as well as dynamic rating technology, which highlights newly discovered, unrated or mixed-content sites not currently in the database. Alltel Parental Controls also provides real-time capabilities for instant site ratings and the ability to selectively prevent access to different pieces of content on the same web page.
Alltel’s content filtering service was available free of charge to all customers, both prepaid and post-paid, on a broad range of handsets. Adult subscribers could use a parental dashboard on the Alltel website to activate and monitor content controls based on user profiles, as they did with home personal computers and television sets. Alltel developed the dashboard using the open application programming interface of Bytemobile’s Unison™ Mobile Internet Platform.
Alltel Wireless had been a Bytemobile customer since 2007. The company, which had more than 12 million subscribers, was acquired by Verizon in 2009.
T-Mobile UK Provides Parental Controls and High-Speed Web Browsing on Handsets
In 2005, T-Mobile UK launched its Web’n’Walk “Internet in your pocket” service, becoming the first wireless carrier in Europe to offer its subscribers full web browsing on their mobile handsets. It also became one of the first European operators to provide parental controls of access to inappropriate content by children under 18, in compliance with the UK Code of Practice established by the UK Home Office Internet Task Force.
In achieving these breakthroughs, T-Mobile UK deployed Bytemobile’s content filtering and web optimization solutions in its network. These applications, tightly integrated within the Unison architecture, met or exceeded the carrier’s strict requirements for network latency, availability and scalability. Following the launch of Web’n’Walk, T-Mobile UK recorded dramatic increases in both data traffic and average revenue per user (ARPU).
In September 2009, Orange and T-Mobile announced they were merging their UK operations to create the country's largest mobile phone operator, with 28.4 million customers. T-Mobile UK has been a Bytemobile customer since 2002.
