Unwired Nation · 14 September 2007, 12:34 by trickykid
So I was approached for a new job doing sysadmin work at another company locally here in Austin after I did some contract work this past spring, which I’ve accepted. It’s going to be a great opportunity, better pay, more options and if the company gets bought out or goes public, I could really benefit from it to grow within a company starting out small and expand my knowledge in this field focusing on some of the things I have a weakness with, example, networking skills with Cisco equipment.
The company is Unwired Nation which does VOIP services to mostly cellphones that allows other companies/businesses to integrate into our own API to make phone calls to users. To give a better idea about the technology, they started out as Unwired Buyer that worked with eBay that gave users a way to have the system call them when their auctions were about to end to give information and updates before the auction ends.
Plug this technology with other services, this allows companies to basically make automated calls to any phone to provide updates, which could be beneficial to stock brokers who want updates on stocks during trading, sports nuts who want updates on their favorite teams, etc.
So what’s the advantage of using voice over SMS or text messages? Well, for one, most people who carry a cell phone don’t pay per call they make or recieve, it’s included in the phone plan. Rather than paying the data charges that emails and SMS might rack up on your cellphone bill, you get a call instead so it eliminates those small accumulated charges one may get with the amount of text and emails they get on their phone for data charges.
It really is a clever way to reach this mass market with communications using existing technology 200+ million people alone in the U.S. carry with them everywhere, adding the VOIP technology with Unwired Nations API to drive it.
Congrats on the new job, Drew! It sounds like a very interesting technology and I hope you enjoy running everything “behind the scenes.” :)
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