PARKGURU and NEWSPHONE Hellas Collaboration

There has been a positive start to the collaboration of PARKGURU and NEWSPHONE Hellas. Through this collaboration users of the telephone directory service “11880” can, without any additional charge, find and book a parking spot near their POI. The search and booking of a parking spot is based on the award-winning parking platform PARKGENE, which has been developed by PARKGURU and contains over 6 million professional parking spots worldwide in almost 8.000 cities.

Offering PARKGURU’s smart parking solution through NEWSPHONE’s telephone directory represents a qualitative expansion of the value-added services of the two companies, provides new capabilities to “11880” users and helps cities become friendlier by reducing congestion and traffic levels,  as fewer cars roam the streets in search of a parking spot.

«We are interested in developing our B2B collaborations and the agreement with NEWSPHONE provides PARKGURU a new user base for the PARKGENE parking platform as well as providing NEWSPHONE Hellas users a valuable service. Smart cities start with smart transportation and smart parking is the cornerstone of this premise», quoting Manos Macromallis, COO of PARKGURU Group.

Efstratios Apergis, CEO of NEWSPHONE HELLAS, had the following comment: “The continuous enrichment of the ‘11880’ service with new features has evolved it into something far wider than a simple telephone directory service, making it a multifaceted assistant for its users. The collaboration of NEWSPHONE HELLAS with PARKGURU and the offer of Smart Parking service through ‘11880’ reflect the common philosophy of the two companies: Simple, quality and innovative solution to the Citizen.”