GSMA Mobile World Congress Feb. 15-18, 2010 is the happening mobile conference of the month. Head to Barcelona and be immersed in exciting services and solutions. VoIPSWITCH will unveil their new VoIPSWITCH Blackberry Dialer. The world’s first to offer 85Mbps Ericsson will unveil demonstrations at the popular mobile exhibition.

Techistan interviewed Juan Mateau of Solaiemes, whose Solaiemes merges telco with web services,  says it is their first important commercial marketing effort of each of the past few years because of the great opportunities it provides.

Enjoy the listening to the podcast interview with Juan and reading the complete transcription. More research on the topic of RCS solution with Solaiemes shows different uses, advantages and scenarios. Check for example at  http://blog.solaiemes.com/2010/02/unveiling-our-rcs-solution-gateway.html.
Suzanne Bowen:Today we have with us Juan Mateu of Solaiemes, an innovative unified communications solution with the need for mobility in mind. In fact, the Techistan team met Juan at GSMA Mobile World Congress in 2009 in the Innovations hall. He is the founder and CEO of Solaiemes. Juan lives in Madrid, Spain where his company is based. Hello Juan.

Juan Mateu: Hi Suzanne.

Suzanne Bowen:Good to talk with you again after a whole year. I know that you’ll be exhibiting at the conference again this year. Tell us about Solaiemes, how and when it started, what was the original intent and where are you going next?

Juan Mateu: Solaiemes was created three years ago. Our original intent was to create communications infrastructure between service providers and their core infrastructure. We wanted to create IMS, IP mobile systems, push to talk… not so easy to do among carriers.

Then, we wanted to create platforms for mobile usability not only for smart phones. We kept in mind enterprise and personal cases for push to talk different from the person to person communications. We created solutions for video based on carrier services IMS core or IMS video share. We wanted users to be able to install applications to do that. We want to open the eyes of the carriers that we could create our own services for best use case.

Now, the next is to pave the wave for RCS (rich communications suite). RCS is a new initiative for the G domain to create new services for mobile phones… to be in all the carriers, interoperating… you will have a nice messenger with IM, messaging, file sharing, live video sharing, all in one service.

Our next talent is to create a platform to enable people to create services on the top of RCS, translating from web APIs to telco protocols such as SIP, IAX, MSRP ( Message Session Relay Protocol). This is the new platform we will unveil during GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010… IMS & RCS…

Suzanne Bowen: Solaiemes is involved in cutting edge technologies and services, combining a mobile phone book with IM, file sharing, and live video sharing. No wonder you’re in the Innovations area at GSMA with your exhibit.

Juan Mateu: Yes, we always lean to the innovations area. The problem is that it is a well-known fact that carriers tend to be slow in deploying new services, always squeezing their real value, their technology.  We hope RCS will be the real chance to compete with the pure Internet services for mobile-based applications. The applications model is not always easy for most people. They don’t want to spend more money trying to learn how to use very complicated smart phone. Our approach is for all users.

Suzanne Bowen:Why did Solaiemes decide to exhibit at GSMA Mobile World Congress in 2010? It is scheduled Feb. 15-18, 2010.

Juan Mateu: GSMA exhibition is our first really important commercial marketing effort of the year. It’s in Barcelona. This is important. We can get there from Madrid easily. This is our third year to exhibit at GSMA. We are happy with the Innovations Zone where we will be. It is the event where we should go.

We also obviously did and will exhibit at CTIA in Las Vegas in the past April, but  the main one for us is GSMA. It leans to European standards where we are. We are naturally closer right now to European carriers than to American ones. The last tends to deploy older standards.

Suzanne Bowen: GSMA has a huge exhibit floor with many specifically-named sections. I can see why it an ideal location for you to meet up with all types of entities that would be interested in interacting with you about your services. Everyone listening to this podcast will want to know how to get in touch with you, Juan, at Solaiemes.

Juan Mateu: We will be exhibiting at hall 7, booth IZ12. We can be contacted using Twitter at http:/www.twitter.com/solaiemes, our blog at http://blog.solaiemes.com/, our Linkedin group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1013597&trk=hb_side_g, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/solaiemes and on our website at http://www.solaiemes.com/index. Find us also on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.com/solaiemes. Contact us at info@solaiemes.com.

Suzanne Bowen: Exactly, you and I have stayed in contact and even arranged this interview via discussion on Twitter and via our  Linkedin networks. It is a pleasure to talk with you again. This will be available on iTunes as all our podcasts are at http://www.didx.net/podcast. Anyone listening can subscribe and download to their own iPod, iPhone, mp3 player, etc.

Thank you, Juan, and looking forward to seeing you in person at GSMA Mobile World Congress Feb. 15-18, 2010and again at CTIA in Las Vegas in April.

Juan Mateu: Okay. I hope the same. We meet there. Thanks, Suzanne.