Value-Added Service

1. Value-Added Service https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

2. Microsoft Office 2013 Office 365 • Different plans are available for Office 365, some of which also include value-added services, such as 20 GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 Skype minutes per month on the new Home Premium plan https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

3. Compaq Struggles • Compaq relied significantly on reseller channels, so their criticism caused Compaq to retreat from its proposed direct sales plan, although Capellas maintained that he would use the middlemen to provide value-added services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

4. Distributed control system The application-centric era of the 1990s • Because of the shrinking hardware business, suppliers began to make the challenging transition from a hardware-based business model to one based on software and value-added services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

5. Short Message Service - Interconnectivity with other networks • Subscriber-originated messages are transported from a handset to a service center, and may be destined for mobile users, subscribers on a fixed network, or Value-Added Service Providers (VASPs), also known as application-terminated. Subscriber-terminated messages are transported from the service center to the destination handset, and may originate from mobile users, from fixed network subscribers, or from other sources such as VASPs. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

6. Short Message Service - Premium-rated short messages • The Value-added service provider (VASP) providing the content submits the message to the mobile operator's SMSC(s) using an TCP/IP protocol such as the short message peer-to-peer protocol (SMPP) or the External Machine Interface (EMI) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

7. Television advertisement - Future of TV advertisements • Online video directories are an emerging form of interactive advertising, which help in recalling and responding to advertising produced primarily for television. These directories also have the potential to offer other value-added services, such as response sheets and click-to-call, which greatly enhance the scope of the interaction with the brand. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

8. Tencent Holdings • Tencent Holdings Limited (Chinese: 腾讯控股有限公司，SEHK: 700) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services, and operate online advertising services in China. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

9. Tencent Holdings - History • The company originally derived income solely from advertising and premium users of QQ, who pay monthly fees to receive added extras. But by 2005, charging for use of QQ mobile, its cellular value-added service, and licensing its iconic penguin character, which can be found on snack food and clothing, had also become income generators. And c. 2008 Tencent was seeing profit growth from the sale of virtual goods. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

10. Multimedia Messaging Service - Challenges • Distribution lists: Current MMS specifications do not include distribution lists nor methods by which large numbers of recipients can be conveniently addressed, particularly by content providers, called Value-added service providers (VASPs) in 3GPP. Since most SMSC vendors have adopted FTP as an ad-hoc method by which large distribution lists are transferred to the SMSC prior to being used in a bulk-messaging SMS submission, it is expected that MMSC vendors will also adopt FTP. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

11. Telecommunications in Sudan - Internet in Sudan (2006) • (*)Licensed Providers of value-added Services : https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

12. Telenor - Fixed-line • In Norway, Telenor provides communications solutions on a retail basis to both residential and business customers. Offers include analogue (PSTN) and digital (ISDN) fixed-line telephony, as well as broadband voice services over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Internet access via PSTN/ISDN and digital subscriber lines (xDSL), value-added services and leased lines. Norway has one of the highest numbers of DSL lines per capita, currently at over 80% of households and steadily growing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

13. SK Telecom - SK Telink Corp • Building on the commercial long-distance telephony and value-added services launched in 2005, the company began offering Korean text messaging in June 2006 in the U.S https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

14. Illinois • By the early 2000s, Illinois' economy had moved toward a dependence on high-value-added services, such as financial trading, higher education, law, logistics, and medicine https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

15. Independent Verification and Validation Facility - Projects • NASA's IV&V Program is the lead NASA organization for system software IV&V, and is responsible for the management of all system software IV&V efforts within the Agency. NASA's IV&V Program's role is to provide value-added service to the Agency's system software projects, primarily by appropriately performing IV&V on system software based on the cost, size, complexity, life span, risk, and consequences of failure. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

16. Third-party logistics • Often, these services go beyond logistics and included value-added services related to the production or procurement of goods, i.e., services that integrate parts of the supply chain https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

17. Third-party logistics - Types of 3PL providers • * Service Developer: this type of 3PL provider will offer their customers advanced value-added services such as: tracking and tracing, cross-docking, specific packaging, or providing a unique security system. A solid IT foundation and a focus on economies of scale and scope will enable this type of 3PL provider to perform these types of tasks. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

18. Hacking of consumer electronics - Legality • A main complication, in many cases, is the profiting from selling jailbroken or rooted equipment as a value-added service https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

19. Text messaging - Premium content • The subscribers are charged extra for receiving this premium content, and the amount is typically divided between the mobile network operator and the Value-added service|value added service provider (VASP), either through revenue share or a fixed transport fee https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

20. XBMC - XBMC's Addons Manager and Addons • XBMC developers encourage users to make and submit their own addons to add additional media content and value-added services accessible from within XBMC. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

21. SMS - Interconnectivity with other networks • Subscriber-originated messages are transported from a handset to a service center, and may be destined for mobile users, subscribers on a fixed network, or Value-added service|Value-Added Service Providers (VASPs), also known as application-terminated. Subscriber-terminated messages are transported from the service center to the destination handset, and may originate from mobile users, from fixed network subscribers, or from other sources such as VASPs. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

22. SMS - Premium-rated short messages • The Value-added service provider (VASP) providing the content submits the message to the mobile operator's SMSC(s) using an Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP protocol such as the short message peer-to-peer protocol (SMPP) or the EMI (protocol)|External Machine Interface (EMI) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

23. Naspers - History • In September 2008, Naspers acquired a 49% interest in Compera nTime, mobile value-added services company in Brazil. During 2010 Compera nTime acquired a competitor Yavox. The enlarged group has been renamed Movile. Having Brazil as its core market, Movile is also present in Mexico, and is expanding to other Latin-American countries. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

24. Institutional repository - Aggregators • This allows search engines and open access aggregators, such as BASE (search engine)|BASE and CORE (COnnecting REpositories)|CORE, to index repository metadata and content and provide value-added services on top of this content.Knoth, P https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

25. Finland - Media and communications • Value-added services are rare.[http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/ajk/tiedotteet/v2006/tiedote_017_2006-09-05_en.html Information technology has become part of Finns' everyday life] (Statistics Finland) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

26. Tencent • 'Tencent Holdings Limited' (，) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services, and operate online advertising services in China. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen|Nanshan District, Shenzhen. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

27. Tencent - History • But by 2005, charging for use of QQ mobile, its cellular value-added service, and licensing its iconic penguin character, which can be found on snack food[http://news.gotgame.com/qq-games-on-aim-another-penguin-aims-for-the-casual-market/23035/ QQ Games on AIM: Another Penguin Aims for the Casual Market] gotgame.com, January 13, 2009 and clothing, had also become income generators https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

28. ZTE • 2007 and telecommunications software.[ http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/about/corporate_information/product_businesses/ Product Portfolio] ZTE Official Site It also offers products that provide value-added services,[ http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/press_center/news/200812/t20081215_160193.html ZTE Secures More than Half of China Unicom GSM Value-Added Service System 2008 Tender] ZTE Official Site, 2008-12-15 such as video on demand and streaming media.[ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ric=0763.HK ZTE Corp's Company Description] Businessweek.com ZTE primarily sells products under its own name but it is also an Original Equipment Manufacturer|OEM.[ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/27/lsi-idUSSGE70P07P20110127 UPDATE 3-LSI sees second half better than first] reuters.com, Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:14pm EST https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

29. Moodle - Deployment • Some free Moodle hosting providers allow educators to create Moodle-based online classes without installation or server knowledge. Some paid Moodle hosting providers provide value-added services like customization and content development. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

30. Food marketing - Marketing mix • One reason food manufacturers receive the largest percentage of the retail food dollar is that they provide the most differentiating, value-added service https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

31. Bell Sympatico - 2000s: Value-added services and rebranding • Starting in Summer 2003, Sympatico tried to differentiate its service from its competitors by adding value-added services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

32. Megafon - History • July 1999 – North-West GSM was the first Russian operator that signed roaming agreements with all countries in Europe. The same year, for the first time ever in Russia, mobile communication started to operate in Saint Petersburg metro, and the operator’s spectrum of value-added services included Wireless Application Protocol|WAP-access to the Internet. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

33. Megafon - History • Based on Q3 2010 results MegaFon became the leader in the revenue share from value-added services (VAS) among the Big Three operators.[http://www.procontent.ru/news/19351.html МегаФон: итоги 2010 - рост выручки и доли VAS-услуг][http://www.content-review.com/articles/17201/ Финансовый отчет «МегаФона» за III квартал 2011 года (полная версия)] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

34. Megafon - History • In December 2011, the company created MegaLabs, 100% subsidiary, which is the single center of innovative design and prompt launch of value-added services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

35. Far EasTone - Service launch • Far EasTone was the first to offer Taiwan consumers numerous value-added services such as: the Java 32K SIM Toolkit, Mobile Banking, m-commerce, real-time access to financial, entertainment and headline news, mobile fax/mail; logo download and e-coupons. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

36. Intelligent network service • The 'Intelligent Network' ('IN') is the standard network architecture specified in the [http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Q.1200/en/ ITU-T Q.1200 series recommendations]. It is intended for fixed as well as Global System for Mobile Communications|mobile telecommunication|telecom networks. It allows operators to differentiate themselves by providing value-added services in addition to the standard telecom services such as PSTN, ISDN and GSM services on mobile phones. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

37. Intelligent network service - History and key concepts • With the advent of IN, most of these services (such as toll free numbers and geographical number portability) were moved out of the core switch systems and into self-serving nodes (IN), thus creating a modular and more secure network that allowed the services providers themselves to develop variations and value-added services to their network without submitting a request to the core switch manufacturer and wait for the long development process https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

38. Rostelecom • The company provides traditional fixed-line voice, mobile, data, TV and value-added services to residential, corporate and governmental subscribers https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

39. Fiber to the premises by country - Argentina • They provide Internet, telephone, and value-added services using Cisco's Long Reach Ethernet and Catalyst switches https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

40. Netvigator - History • Their broadband service, under the brand name Super Netvigator was launched as a value-added service of the InteractiveTV (iTV) in May 1998 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

41. Personal Handy-phone System - Technology • PHS uses Time division multiple access|TDMA/Time division duplex|TDD for its radio channel access method, and 32 kbit/s ADPCM for its voice codec. Modern PHS phone can also support many value-added services such as high speed wireless data/Internet connection (64 kbit/s and higher), World Wide Web|WWW access, e-mailing, text messaging and even color image transfer. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

42. Free (ISP) - Profitability • Because of bandwidth cost, only a subset of the Television|TV services is offered to bundled subscribers; while Unbundled Access|unbundled subscribers can access value-added services such as Video on demand|VOD and Subscription Video on demand|VOD. These services' revenues are constantly increasing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

43. IndosatM2 • 'IndosatM2' provides Internet, multimedia and IP-based products and services to customers in the corporate, small and medium enterprise (SME), and the retail market segments in Indonesia, utilizing a wide array of local access nodes, from dedicated cable and wireless access to standard dial-up, VSAT-IP, and the latest in WiFi broadband connections. IM2 also offers value-added services including web hosting, collocation, Online and Mobile Advertising Platform, E-Payment, E-Commerce, E-Book, etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

44. Belgacom - Products and technologies • * VAS(value-added services) in both the voice and mobile data domain: SMS Firewall, Welcome SMS, Steering of Roaming, hosted GLR, RoamGuard, RoamFast. These products optimize quality and profitability of operators’ activities. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

45. Showtime (TV network) - Background • In April 1994, Showtime announced the creation of a new themed multiplex service, consisting of five channels: Spanish language service Showtime En Espanol, family-oriented Showtime Family Television, action-oriented service Showtime Action Television, a service featuring comedy films and series called Showtime Comedy Television and an all-movie channel called Showtime Film Festival.[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15417843.html Showtime announces five new value-added services], Multichannel News, April 25, 1994 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

46. Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications - Data retention and other issues • Data may be retained upon a user’s consent for marketing and value-added services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

47. Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications - Data retention and other issues • Where data relating to location of users or other traffic can be processed, Article 9 provides that this will only be permitted if such data is anonymized, where users have given consent, or for provision of value-added services. Like in the previous case, users must be informed beforehand of the character of information collected and have the option to opt out.Article 9(2) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

48. SIM Application Toolkit • 'SIM Application Toolkit' (commonly referred to as STK) is a standard of the GSM system which enables the Subscriber Identity Module|Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) to initiate actions which can be used for various value-added services.[http://www.cellular.co.za/sim_toolkit.htm SIM Toolkit] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

49. Smart pipe - Examples • While not necessarily a full realization of a smart pipe, 3 is one of the first operators to offer such a combination of bandwidth and value-added services for flat-rate pricing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html

50. Churn rate - Churn Rate of a Customer Base • The churn rate can be minimized by creating barriers which discourage customers to change suppliers (contractual binding periods, use of proprietary technology, value-added services, unique business models, etc.), or through retention activities such as loyalty programs https://store.theartofservice.com/the-value-added-service-toolkit.html