[ANN][UMT] The blockchain platform for telecom operators + messenger

Hello!
Dear forum readers,

We need you advice.

We are preparing to launch an ICO. We are team of professionals in telecommunications. For the past several years we have come out with several innovative solutions in telecom, which have synergy effects and which we would like to implement on a global scale.

The problem of the current telecom market is practical oligopoly in most countries with 2-3 big mobile operators who control the market plus very complex government regulations. The results can be felt most by a user when you travel, and have to pay sometimes unpredictable roaming charges, or have to go to a shop to buy a local SIM-card, but with another phone number than which all of your friends know.

It is also burdens the new telecom companies with upfront costs of millions of USD just to provide a roaming services in particular country (that's why the roaming charges are so high - operators are trying to recover their fixed costs). Also they earn nothing when they sell SIM-cards to tourists because of high distribution costs.

We are developing solutions which shall be convenient for users and shall allow new operators to drastically reduce their capital costs. Those new operators shall be able to offer better prices to users empowered with our technical solutions. Some solutions are already working, like a BubbleTone messenger, while others require further development. In the end we plan to build a marketplace on blockchain where mobile operators can buy and sell international mobile internet traffic and other services for their subscribers by using our utility token - UMT (Universal Mobile Token).

We list below four propositions which when mingled together shall enable the telecom marketplace on blockchain.

We ask for your advice and feedback of what you consider to be the most promising propositions for us to put on an ICO. If we just list our solutions in the whitepaper it may be vague for a person not familiar with telecommunications. So we want to focus on things that look promising and understandable for an average ICO investor.

=== Proposition I. ===
UMT Global SIM-card - become a local mobile user in any country*
* in any country of 80+ currently available countries

- Problem:
Currently while travelling you may need to buy local physical SIM-card or pay roaming charges to have mobile network connection.

- Solution:
UMT Global SIM-card main features:
1. Affordability - Avoid roaming charges - get local tariffs.
2. Convenience - No need to buy local physical SIM-card – the local operator profile is downloaded via SMS channel.
3. Participation - All crowdsale contributors with contributions of more than $100 would receive our SIM-card with $100 on account.

=== Proposition II. ===
BubbleTone messenger – the messenger with built-in blockchain features*
* some features are under development

Become truly global citizen with BubbleTone!
Available in App Store and Google Play today.
Bubbletone current (marked with *) and future features:
1. Get UMT tokens for activity inside Bubbletone messenger or purchase them at exchange. Pay with UMT tokens for mobile voice and internet traffic.
2. Make P2P payments in crypto and fiat currency around the globe.
3. Send a gift to the future – smart-contract gift cards.
4. Record your phone calls.
5. User authentication with storage on blockchain.
6. Built-in voting platform on blockchain users can organize voting contests, business meetings, and give ratings to products and services.

Learn more:
http://www.bubbletone.net/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubbletone/id1190252056?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countrycom.bubbletone

=== Proposition III. ===
MDS Blockchain - blockchain marketplace for mobile data traffic. Disrupting telecom market with blockchain!

Participants of the MDS Platform are mobile operators, mobile virtual operators and their subscribers.
There are around 800 operators in the world and 4 bln. subscribers at the present.

Main benefits of the MDS Platform:
1. For subscribers - They receive local tariffs in any country they are visiting, thus avoiding costly roaming charges.
2. For operators - No technical or billing integration is required. Thus the participant operators reduce their subscriber acquisition costs (SAC) to near zero if compared with current practice of costly and lengthy negotiations and integration process.
3. The transactions take place via a smart-contract. Thus any “host”-operator can create an order for his subscriber for the services of another “client”-operator in any country*. The “client”-operator then can deliver the ordered services with all transactions stored on blockchain.
* in any country of 80+ currently available countries

=== Proposition IV. ===
Global Mobile User Profile for global connectivity in IOT

20+ billion of connected devices will be in use in 2020*.

Global Mobile User Profile (GMUP) is independent of countries and operators. Any IOT or mobile device vendor can embed GMUP into his device providing global connectivity around the world.

The end user of device with GMUP can choose required operator and pay for his services through communication app – BubbleTone. Then the profile of the local country mobile operator is downloaded via GMUP which makes physical SIM-cards obsolete, while conforming to telecom regulations.

* Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion in 2017.