Protect Mobile Phone Data – Protection Services

Why do you need to protect mobile phone data? If you’re traveling and you lose your mobile phone, you will have not only lost your means of communication, but you will have lost all the data stored your mobile phone as well. Worst case scenario, you would have lost all of your business and personal contact numbers, and if you were in a strange city, you would at least need the number of your service provider to cancel service. It’s always a good idea to have some sort of mobile phone data protection.

To protect mobile phone data doesn’t mean to protect the phone itself, but the data stored within the phone. A protection service can help you easily retrieve any lost data. CPP Group Plc, a leading European provider of mobile phone insurance, is now offering mobile phone data protection services.

CCP’s data protection services works with any Symbian OS or Microsoft Smartphone enabled phone and is used seamlessly without user interruption. CCP uses data replication technology developed by Conigma to safeguard all the data stored on a subscriber’s mobile phone. An address book is automatically stored on a secure server, any changes made by the user are replicated immediately and the service effectively operates as an on-going automatic backup.

CCP’s customer service works with the subscriber to restore all data to a new mobile phone if a phone is damaged, lost or stolen. CCP can also remotely disable the lost or stolen phone to prevent access to the data stored on it.

The processes of data storage and replication are completely invisible to the end-user, once the mobile data protection service is initiated. Using the display on their phone, subscribers check the status of their protection service to ensure that their phone is protected.

CCP launched a pilot program of the protection service in May 2004 in the UK and is hopeing to make the service available through retail partners in Europe and North American within the next 24 months.

Also see; accessories for cell phones.

Author Notes:

Jack Adams contributes and publishes news editorial to http://www.cell-phones-n-plans.com. A cell phone industry resource that features service plan comparisons, cellular phone reviews and articles.