Europe UK : All New Video announced it will continue to provide the technology and services for the Orange Video Answer Phone service which was initially launched last year as part of Orange’s 3G offering.

Following the success of the service All New Video have now secured a 24 month contract in which it will continue supply the current service plus a host of enhanced features.

As easy as leaving a traditional voicemail, the service allows a short video message to be left for customers of the Orange network when they are unavailable to take video calls. The message is then sent to the recipient as a video MMS message. This ensures that both 3G and 2G users are able to receive messages.

All New Video will continue to provide this functionality for Orange as a managed service from one of their European hosted facilities. The packaged service, comprising of the specialist software necessary to provide a two-way video call between mobile and IP networks, as well as the hardware and software necessary to host the carrier class service, is designed with the scalability to meet Orange’s demand for terminating video call traffic from both Orange and cross network video calls.

All New Video were successful in securing the new 24 month Orange contract because of the flexibility, innovation and high levels of customer support they offered. Andrew Warner, Senior Product Manager for Video Calling at Orange UK said: “All New Video continues to provide a service that dramatically improves the 3G experience for our customers. With services like the Orange Video Answer Phone, our customers can now communicate in richer, more exciting ways than ever before.”

Commenting on the deal, All New Video CTO Lee Woodland said: “We are delighted to continue our relationship with Orange and deliver even greater value to their users. We believe that Video will be the next big application in mobile telephony and by continuing to evolve the existing functionality we can offer Orange customers even more fun, exciting and compelling services.”