Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the appointment of Zbig Zdanowicz as sales director, Eastern Europe. Based in Dusseldorf, Germany, Zdanowicz is responsible for all new customer sales and management of existing Bytemobile accounts throughout Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Russia and the Confederation of Independent States (CIS).
“This region, which bridges Central Europe and Central Asia, is poised on the threshold of 3G network deployment,” said Bryan Visser, Bytemobile vice president and general manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “As the various country markets emerge, we are enabling network operators to deliver a rich, fast, safe open internet experience to their subscribers on any mobile device, from mass-market handsets to laptops. Zbig Zdanowicz brings to Bytemobile strong skills and experience in prospecting and closing deals, and we look forward to his contribution in the region.”
Zdanowicz has 20 years of regional sales management experience in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia with technology companies including Citrix Systems, Electronics for Imaging, The Santa Cruz Operation, Acer, and Novell. He joins Bytemobile from MetraTech, where he directed sales of telecommunications billing systems to mobile network operators in Germany and Eastern Europe. He also led sales to service providers for ComArch Software, one of the top software companies in Poland. Zdanowicz studied Informatics and Telecommunications at Warsaw Technical University and speaks six languages.
“Consumers throughout Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS are eagerly embracing the mobile lifestyle,” said Graham Carey, EMEA marketing director at Bytemobile. “We are supporting this trend with our Unison™ Mobile Internet Platform, which enables operators to offer their subscribers innovative web browsing and multimedia services that increase revenue while saving costs.”
Bytemobile’s Unison platform is an internet protocol (IP) services gateway node deployed in the core data path of the carrier’s network. This gateway supports a seamlessly integrated suite of products for delivery of optimized data, web and multimedia services, with mobile advertising and parental controls, to consumers on all mobile devices and laptops. Unison IP services are designed to ensure a compelling user experience on the world’s leading mobile browsers for both clientless and client-server applications. As the foundation of the Unison platform, dynamic optimization accelerates data traffic and reduces data volumes for handset and laptop services on all wireless networks.
Today, Bytemobile’s network installations span 96 operators in 53 countries, serving more than one billion subscribers, and 12 of the world’s 15 largest tier-one operators. Bytemobile estimates that total data traffic on its customers’ networks is growing at a rate of 10-15% per month.
Bytemobile is a tier-one provider of integrated mobile internet solutions which optimize the delivery of data, web, multimedia, advertising, and filtering services to consumers on feature phones, smartphones and laptops. The company’s customers include leading operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, KDDI, KPN, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telefónica O2, Vodafone, and WILLCOM. Bytemobile is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company has regional sales and support offices in Wokingham, U.K.; Dubai, U.A.E.; Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China; Singapore; and Sydney, Australia; and research and development centers in Patras, Greece and Champaign, Illinois. To learn more about Bytemobile, visit the company’s website at www.bytemobile.com.
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