14 DAY TRIAL // InfoSpace announced it has extended its partnership with AT&T to power the carrier's popular MEdia Net service. In addition, InfoSpace will continue to provide AT&T with customized mobile search and messaging solutions, as well as professional hosting and management services. These technologies are components of InfoSpace's Mobile Services Platform, a suite of customizable mobile infrastructure services that include storefronts, portals, search and messaging solutions.
Since InfoSpace began powering MEdia Net in 2003, more than 30 million AT&T subscribers have benefited from easy access to personalized information such as email, messaging, games, ringtones, travel and weather information and news. MEdia Net users can create a home page directly on their mobile phone and add content from various categories using an easy-to-navigate dashboard. The addition of InfoSpace's mobile search solution will enhance the user experience, as subscribers will be able to search for content and information, regardless of its origin or format, using a single search box.
InfoSpace's Mobile Services Platform provides a technology infrastructure that helps carriers reduce ongoing maintenance costs, improve customer service and simplify the end user experience. Carriers can deploy the back-end technologies into their existing infrastructure in part or as a whole to offer a unified mobile data experience, while increasing revenue opportunities.
"We're seeing an explosion of mobile services in the market and forward-thinking carriers like AT&T are starting to capitalize on the opportunity to offer customers a more streamlined, relevant and personalized user experience," said Steve Elfman, executive vice president of InfoSpace's mobile business unit. "AT&T has definitely been at the forefront of this movement and we look forward to expanding our longtime partnership as consumer demand continues to grow."