StreamThru powering Air New Zealand's Boarding Buddy mobile service

We've just launched a new service for Air New Zealand, called Boarding Buddy.

Boarding Buddy is powered by our StreamThru mobile travel assistant platform and enables Air New Zealand to enhance customer service and provide passengers with up-to-the-minute, personalised flight alerts direct to their mobile phone through SMS

Boarding Buddy is currently available for passengers flying on Air New Zealand flights from London Heathrow Airport.

You can find up more by visiting the Boarding Buddy web-site.

Visit us at Passenger Terminal Expo 2009

We're attending Passenger Terminal Expo next week (24 - 26 March) at the ExCel centre in London.

If you're there too, why not drop by and say hello? We're exhbiting on Cisco's stand (1300), where we'll be demonstrating how the latest version of our StreamThru platform can help travel companies build enduring customer relationships and boost ancillary revenue by engagaing travellers in a timely, personalised and relevant mobile dialogue.

And, if you are registered for the conference, Mike Atherton, our MD, is speaking on the 26 March on the Commercial Development, Strategy and Retail Revenues track. His talk is at 13:25 and is entitled: "Who's flying from your airport today?"
Hope to see you there!

EU caps mobile data roaming charges from July 2009

Viviane Reding, the EU's Telecoms Commissioner has announced that from July 2009 new rules will come into force capping data charges for mobile phone users when they travel to another EU country. Ms Reding said that these new rules are "very good news for consumers".

Wholesale prices of data will be capped at €0.50 per megabyte. Currently, the average retail price is around €4 per megabyte.

Although the mobile operators don't like these new rules, lower prices should help to increase mobile-web usage. I believe that high data charges have hampered the growth of the mobile-web, so I think these new EU regulations are great news for us, because they'll encourage more travellers to use the mobile-web version of our StreamThru mobile travel assistance service!