RedOxygen, a upcoming ICT company based in Brisbane, announced today that will launch it’s suite of corporate text messaging products today with one of the world’s largest and fastest growing operators, VimpelCom (Beeline ÒM), with over 56,8 million subscribers. VimpelCom will offer the RedOxygen email–to–SMS solution set for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook and a stand alone version for windows. The RedOxygen products allow business users to send/receive SMS messages using their existing email client, Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. The RedOxygen solutions allow them to use their existing email database and the RedOxygen solutions will send SMS alerts of any event logged into their email calendar. Some of RedOxygen's direct corporate customers include: Pfizer, Qantas, Siemens, PWC, BHP and 3M. "Enterprises are looking for ways to communicate with remote work force in a timely, cost effective manor, and SMS has no competition. You can send a text message to over 3 billion people on the planet, and there are only 6 million blackberry users, worldwide. We are very excited to be launching our service in one of the world's fastest growing mobile markets, with one of the world's largest mobile operators" Says Tom Sheahan, CEO of RedOxygen. "VimpelCom is strongly committed to the task of offering its corporate customers world-class, reliable, effective and easy-to-use solutions, capable of optimizing their business communication processes. RedOxygen fits in well with our customers' needs, our technical requirements and our mission, offering wide range of products and ease of integration with the existing IT architecture, billing and applications" Ñomments Oksana Belyaeva, Marketing Director, Business segment & Roaming, VimpelCom. About RedOxygen Established in Australia in 2001, RedOxygen is one of the world's leading developers of Enterprise SMS / Text messaging software applications and services. RedOxygen combines the power of today's email applications, instant messaging clients or CRM applications with the ease, convenience and mobility of SMS / text messaging. Their seamlessly integrated products allow businesses to utilise the full capabilities of their existing contacts address book to send SMS / Text messages to specific individuals or entire lists, all as easily as sending an email. Users can also have their calendar reminders automatically sent to their mobiles, send broadcast SMS / Text messages to large lists and even receive replies straight into their inboxes or CRM application from message recipients. RedOxygen software is available for Microsoft Outlook, Window, IBM’s Sametime, Outlook Express and IBM's Lotus Notes. RedOxygen has over 140,000 clients across a broad array of industries and geographies. Their current customer list includes clients such as Pfizer, BMW, Qantas, Microsoft, Siemens, Panasonic, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, Frito Lay, Billabong, 3M and others. These customers span Australia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America. RedOxygen’s products are also distributed by HP, Swisscom Mobile, the largest mobile operator in Switzerland, and Vodafone Portugal, part of the world's largest wireless cross-country operator. www.redoxygen.com About Vimpelcom The VimpelCom Group (NYSE: VIP) includes cellular companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and recently acquired companies in Georgia and Armenia. The Company operates under the 'Beeline' brand. VimpelCom is recognized for introducing two digital cellular communications standards in Russia. It built the first dual band GSM-900/1800 cellular network in Russia and leads the development and emergence of the mass consumer market for wireless telecommunications in Russia with prepaid products. VimpelCom offers telecommunications airtime and value-added services through GSM and D-AMPS wireless networks. It provides interconnections with other fixed and mobile networks and access to roaming - all under contract and prepaid payment plans. The VimpelCom Group's cellular license portfolio covers a territory with a population of about 240 million. Geographically it covers 77 regions of Russia with 136.5 million people, representing 94% of Russia's population as well as the entire territories of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia. As of March 31, 2007, VimpelCom's total number of subscribers in Russia and the CIS was 56.8 million (45.8 million of them are active, including 38.6 million in Russia, 3.5 million in Kazakhstan and 2.0 million in Ukraine). VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in November 1996. Its ADSs (American Depositary Shares) are traded under the symbol "VIP". www.vimpelcom.com For More Information: Kassandra Macdade RedOxygen Level 9 445 Upper Edward Street Brisbane, QLD 4000 +61-7-3100-8836 Kassandra.Macdade@redoxygen.com
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