Belgacom Gets Apps Using GetJar’s App Catalogue Express Solution
Belgacom App Store to Provide Its Customers 75,000+ Apps
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GetJar, (www.getjar.com), the world’s second largest app store, today announced that it has partnered with Belgacom, the leading Belgian supplier of integrated telecommunication services, to make its entire library of 75,000+ free mobile applications available to Belgacom customers using GetJar’s App Catalogue Express (ACE) – a white label mobile app catalogue solution for carriers, aggregators and partners to launch or add to their own app stores quickly and easily. Belgacom customers gain immediate access to GetJar’s massive library of applications via a GetJar link on the Belgacom Application portal accessible from the mobile Internet on their mobile phone.
Research recently released by Juniper forecasts that the global app market will be worth over $30 billion by 2015 with a significant part of this opportunity for publishers coming from multiple platforms. GetJar is uniquely positioned to help mobile operators ride this trend given its open, cross platform approach to providing consumers with a one-stop “Walmart-type” destination to find everything they want on any handset regardless of platform. As consumer demand for apps explodes and GetJar’s own store surpasses 1 billion downloads, App Catalogue Express is designed to make the delivery of applications easy for any third party that want to populate an existing app store with more apps.
Stijn Vanderplaetse, Vice President of Innovation at Belgacom comments: “Our customers deserve the best possible services available and GetJar’s App Catalogue Express solution made it effortless for us to quickly offer over 75,000 applications, across multiple phones and platforms.”
Ilja Laurs, GetJar Founder and CEO, comments: “The demand for apps continues to soar and many operators and other third parties are eager to introduce an app store, without needing to manage the sourcing and moderating of thousands of individual apps. App Catalogue Express is designed to make it quick and easy for carriers, aggregators and partners to seamlessly launch a pre-populated app store across all major platforms and devices.”
Belgacom customers will have access to thousands of applications ranging from games, social networking, sports, entertainment and productivity applications. Popular apps such as Facebook® Mobile, Yahoo!, Opera Mini, and Nimbuzz can be easily downloaded to over 2,000 handsets across all major platforms, including smartphones and non-smartphones.
App Catalogue express is a white label solution that builds on GetJar’s experience launching branded app store solutions with over two dozen global partners. Belgacom joins other leading companies already using GetJar’s flexible, open app store approach including Sprint, Sony Ericsson, Rogers, 3UK, The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Mobile France. GetJar offers both white label and branded solutions.
To access Belgacom’s App store, go to m.skynet.be
About Belgacom
The Belgacom Group [Euronext: BELG]. A solid background as the national telecom operator and the diverse talents of its teams has made the Belgacom Group the leading Belgian supplier of integrated telecommunication services. Thanks to our continuous investment in state-of-the-art technology, we are able to provide our residential and corporate customers with telephony, Internet and television services on all types of media - any time, any place. For the financial year that closed on 31 December 2009, the Group booked a total revenue of €5.990 billion. More information: www.belgacom.com
About GetJar
GetJar is the world’s second largest apps store, second only to the Apple App Store, with over 1 billion downloads to date. The company’s key point of difference is its open market approach , which allows it to deliver applications for both feature phones and smartphones across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian among others. The company provides more than 65,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries. In 2009 GetJar won the Meffy, Tiecon50 and Mobile Excellence awards for its achievements and products. GetJar is backed by Accel Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the UK and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.
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