Aussie underdog makes it big in Russia

Aussie underdog makes it big in Russia

Red Oxygen a small ICT company in Brisbane lands a huge contract with Russian based mobile operator VimpelCom today.

Red Oxygen’s CEO Tom Sheahan could not be happier about the deal and is excited to bring the Red Oxygen technology to millions of users across Russia.

VimpelCom/Beeline services over 52 million subscribers across Russia and the Red Oxygen technology will be available to the all the Vimpelcom corporate customer base.

“Enterprises are looking for ways to communicate with remote work force in a timely cost effective manor and short message service (SMS) has no competition. You can send a text/SMS to 2.3 billion mobiles on the planet vs. 4.9 million Blackberries.

“We are very excited to be launching our service in one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets with one of the world’s largest mobile operators,” he says.

Red Oxygen currently provides email-to-SMS solutions to businesses across the US, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy Australia and many others.

The Red Oxygen’s products allow business users to send and receive SMS using their existing email contacts.

The technology can also send text/SMS alerts of any event logged in an email calendar to a mobile phone.

This technology is being used across many industries such as engineering, healthcare, pharmaceutical, recruitment, logistics, education and more.

Some of Red Oxygen’s direct corporate customers include: Pfizer, Qantas, Siemens, PWC, BHP and 3M.

Siemens Medical Solutions is one of the largest suppliers of healthcare equipment in the world.

Siemens Medical Solutions Support Centre Manager Graham Davis says “Red Oxygen technology and the service it provides are a vital part of our communication infrastructure.

“We’ve been so impressed with the reliability and cost-savings we’ve received, we intend to incorporate it into other parts of our business systems as well,” he said.

ACNielsen is the world’s leading provider of market research, information and analysis to the consumer products and services. They use Red Oxygen technology as a timely and effective way to communicate with their head office.

ACNielsen’s National Field Manager Bob Scanlon says “Our field media department can receive messages anywhere, our costs have been reduced and communications between staff is swift, easy and efficient”.

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