LONDON—Short message service (SMS) company Logica said it scored two multimedia messaging contracts and is trialing the product with five additional wireless carriers. The company did not name its customers.
Analysts have questioned whether Logica, which controls a vast amount of the SMS industry, can capture the growing multimedia messaging services (MMS) business. The news serves to bolster Logica’s standing in the MMS industry.
Separately, Logica announced it sold its Foreign Subscriber Gateway, a product Logica said allows the carrier to give customers from other carriers, as well as roaming subscribers, access to all of its SMS services, to Europolitan Vodafone. Wireless carriers around the world are implementing similar services in a move to open the SMS market.
In addition, earlier this week, Logica announced that Genie, the mobile Internet business of British carrier mmO2, has deployed the Logica Open Messaging Gateway, which the company said allows content to be published as a set of XML Web pages and delivered over SMS mobile handsets.
Logica said the product simplifies the application development process and will enable Genie to rapidly increase the number of services it can offer mobile subscribers.
And while Logica continues to move to control the messaging market, Compaq Computer made its entrance into the field with its release of its SMS Offload product. Compaq said the product, which is aimed at carrier customers, relieves SMS congestion by moving messaging traffic off the primary network and onto a secondary network.
