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Brazil: Interop partnership enables Bichara to firm 3 MVNO deals

Bichara Tecnologia, a technology provider supporting the Brazilian telecommunications market, and Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management and connectivity gateways, announced a partnership to provide short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), and wireless application protocol (WAP) solutions to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Brazil.

The agreement enables Bichara to deliver wireless services to MVNOs in Brazil, and its Executive Director Daniel Bichara expects to close three MVNO deals by the end of 2011. “One enterprise is signing contracts, and we have another MVNO testing our solutions. We believe we will have eight MVNO clients in the next 20 months,” Bichara projected.

Brazilian MVNO legislation was approved in November by Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel). Porto Seguro, a security insurance company, was the first one to announce its plans. More recently, Virgin Group also disclosed that will act as MVNO.

Bichara is a MVNE and will distribute Interop products in Brazil, offering solutions that could combine both Bichara and Interop products. “The company’s SMS, MMS, and WAP products will provide new MNVOs with the robust, scalable architecture necessary to support new markets effectively,”  said Bichara. “The implementation can be customized, and we are prepared to support, host, deployment”, add Damian Sazama, vice president of corporate and product marketing for Interop.

It’s Interop first partnership in Brazil. As a result of the agrrement, Bichara expects that its MVNO vertical will garner revenues from R$ 7 million to R$ 8 million.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, Americasrprescott@rcrwireless.com Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.