Chris Leckness

Today Tokiva announced the public beta launch of its Mobile Communications Platform that provides open and cost effective voice, messaging, and sharing services on Mobile, Web, and Instant Messaging systems.

Tokiva addresses three key communications necessities for mobile users:
1) inexpensively make calls around the world, 2) access email, and 3) share
social lives with friends and family. Users register at http://www.tokiva.com, create a profile, download Tokiva Mobile software to the phone, and then they can call any number in the world from their mobile. Tokiva calls the user back and immediately connects the user to the called party. With Tokiva Mobile, users can also access their existing web or corporate email accounts.

 

This beta release of Tokiva platform provides the following services:

• Voice: save up to 90% on international calls and roaming costs
• Messaging: free mobile email and inexpensive international and group SMS
• Presence: call management and peer awareness

Since the private launch in September 2007, more than 700,000 users
have signed up with Tokiva and the user base is growing virally month over
month.

Tokiva's mobile technology platform is US patent-pending and consists
of three engines:

• Mobile Virtualization Engine provides peer awareness (location and photo) to a phone's address book. The virtualization engine sits on top of the phone's native OS, accelerates wireless network I/O, and renders a consistent user interface across different mobile device platforms.
• Mobile Personalization Engine optimizes data transcoding, provision, and display based on user profiles, device configurations, and mobile network traffic patterns.
• Mobile Network Engine converges and routes mobile voice and data traffic in one global IP backbone that connects with over 200 mobile carriers world-wide.

Source: Tokiva press release