Mobile app developer Communology is offering mobile operators licence-free test clients for Visual Voicemail (VVM). Companies can use them for internal tests and demos and quickly and effectively ascertain which server configurations are required for implementing VVM services on their networks. Communology says its licence-free test software significantly reduces the time to market for VVM services.

VVM provides an easy-to-use, visual user interface for processing voicemail. Messages are downloaded and managed directly on the mobile device and can be answered with just the push of a button. Unlike conventional, network-based voicemail boxes, users can decide themselves which message they wish to listen to first, and if and for how long the message is to be stored, just as with SMS and email.

Communology provides VVM test apps for Android and Symbian. The apps comply with the recommendations of the OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), a global alliance of telecommunications groups and mobile device manufacturers.Communology’s mobile VVM software is also interoperable with voicemail systems of leading providers, and is used by many mobile operators around the world.

“Existing voicemail services no longer meet the requirements of high-end users, and it comes as no surprise that Visual Voicemail is becoming increasingly popular,” says Communology CEO, Thomas Kähler. “Anyone who has seen VVM on a friend’s iPhone wants to use it as well. Mobile operators are faced with the challenge of introducing VVM as quickly as possible and adapting existing server systems. We launched our licence-free test apps with exactly that in mind.”