◎ Room numbers become cellphone numbers, the first-ever solution service in the world.
The world’s first hotel-based mobile extension service system successfully applies VoIP in MVPN. When a visitor checks in the hotel, he or she will be given a GSM cellphone, whose phone number is also the room’s telephone number. So wherever the visitor travels around with the cellphone, he or she can be reached by any call dialing the room number. Between rooms within the hotel the extension numbers still work for free. If the visitor needs to make outgoing calls, he or she can connect the operator before calling a fixed line or IDD.
◎ The real “mobile” service
No matter where the patron of the hotel goes, simultaneous translation, conference calls, and real-time messaging are at arm’s length. By connecting to the hotel service assistant, the patron will get whatever he or she needs anytime, anywhere.
◎ Calling on discount rates, easy pay easy chat
This Solution has incorporated the discount programs. Any outgoing IDD and cellphone calls are subject to various discount rates. Featured not merely articulate and reliable connections, these phone calls are also cheater than what the ordinary call plans can offer in the market. For business travelers, this Solution is swift, convenient, and pressure free. When a patron checks out, he or she will pay according to a telephone bill specified with breakdowns
Analysis on cost-effectiveness:
1. This mobile service is widely recognized through words of mouth: The quality of services plays an essential role in hotel management. This Solution allows hotels to provide its services without geographical limitations, making them a real virtual hotel service-provider. The result is that patrons become more satisfied with the hotel services, and therefore more willing to promote the hotel image through words of mouth. That is how Les Suites Taipei has successfully distinguished itself from its competitors, marking a significant breakthrough step that leaves its rivals behind.
2. Cost saving strategy: Any local call made by a patron is subject to the local discount rate. The IDD calls from the patron are also eligible to the IDD discount rates, saving 50% compared to the ordinary IDD calls.
3. As the pioneer to introduce VoIP in Les Suites Taipei, which marks one of records of the world’s first ever, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou has been greatly impressed, giving the hotel the most effective endorsement: After the installment of the Hotel Mobile Life Service Solution, on April 20, 2006, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou was invited to witness the Solution’s embarkation ceremony. In the press conference, Mayor Ma personally tried the Solution, making an IDD call to Florida with the hotel’s cellphone. The total connecting time was 370 seconds, and the charge was only NT$9.3. This result surprised Ma, who concluded that the Taipei City Government should apply
the same solution someday. The mayor also praised the R&D efforts of the locally-based VODTEL Communications INC., for its innovation of applying VoIP in a service-based industry. Mayor Mar has been indeed the best and most powerful witness of VODTEL’s Mobile Hotel Life Service Solution! |