CBOSS Solution to Enable SMS Voting for Russians in Eurovision-2004".

The Grand Final of Eurovision-2004 Song Contest takes place in Istanbul on May 15. Russian audience can watch the contest live broadcast on Channel One Russia.

Moscow, Russia (PRWEB) May 30, 2004 -- This year Russians have an opportunity to vote online for their favorite performers by making telephone calls or sending SMS. Channel One Russia has selected official partners for vote arrangement -- leading Russian telecom operator Rostelecom and leading provider of interactive TV services Soyuztelecom.
Soyuztelecom voting service is based on CBOSS proprietary CBOSSvote hardware/software solution. Soyuztelecom is a customer of CBOSS Association.

CBOSSvote enables online interaction with wide audience via marketing researches, polls, free and paid contests, trivia games, betting, etc. The product receives participants answers to predefined questions, saves the information on calls to the database and aggregates it for further analysis.

To participate in a voting or contest, the subscriber can call or send an SMS or USSD message to a dedicated number and receive the vote subject and multiple-choice questions. If the subscriber knows the vote subject and possible answers, he/she can post an answer. Voting can be also arranged on a web site.

Several TV channels have already enjoyed the advantages of CBOSSvote to arrange interactive voting in Stars Factory" project (Channel One Russia), One of Two" (MuzTV), etc.

Founded in 1996, CBOSS Association is an innovation-driven provider of IT for telecom. According to the joint Cnews.ru" and Profile" magazine research, CBOSS headed TOP 10 of the Russian Software Developers in 2002 and 2003. CBOSS has 740+ installations in 19 countries on 4 continents. The subscriber base served by CBOSS technologies counts 40+ million and is constantly growing.

The Associations focus is development of integrated, scalable solutions for telecom enterprises. In 2003, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems performed benchmark tests of Convergent Business Operation Support System (CBOSS). The solution showed outstanding performance when backing communications of 25M subscribers on both deployment platforms. This far exceeds the needs of the majority operators today.

CBOSS benefits from the partnership with globally acknowledged corporations: Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Excel Switching Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Brooktrout, Avaya Communications, Microsoft, and Xerox. For three years running, CBOSS receives the best Oracle ISV award in Russia.

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