Guest Blog By: Jana M.
Mobile technology solutions can solve problems which users didn’t even know they had – which in turn allows mobile service providers to solve their most pressing problem by luring in new customers. In this new age of super powerful mobile devices, the application is king, and having the newest or best applications might mean the difference between success and failure for a mobile service provider.
Mobile technology companies are hard at work to create new and useful mobile solutions. One of the most popular is visual voicemail, which throws the old dial-in voicemail system out the window. This provides a new format for voicemail, making it more intuitive by introducing a graphical interface. This allows the user to choose the message they want to listen to without laboriously sorting through everything in the mailbox. It also lets the user see things like the number or name of the person who left the message, the length of the message, and the time the call took place without having to listen to the entire message. Other mobile technology solutions include things like video mail, unified conferencing, missed call notification, and video conferencing.
Some mobile technology solutions don’t even require that the user have a phone. There is a virtual subscriber service which allows someone without their own phone to still have their own phone number. This phone number can be used to make calls, retrieve messages, and leave messages from any phone. This gives more people access to phone service and lets service providers access previously closed markets.

