TORONTO—Canada’s four national wireless carriers launched commercial availability of inter-carrier mobile text messaging. The four operators, Bell Mobility, Microcell PCS, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility, are all using technology from CMG Wireless Data Solutions.
Each carrier will route out-of-network short message service messages to the CMG Inter-Short Message Service Center Router, which will then instantly route the message to the appropriate carrier and then to the recipient’s wireless handset.
Each carrier will offer different bill plans. Plans range from per-message charges to unlimited use.
All the national U.S. operators except Nextel Communications Inc. have announced inter-operator SMS offerings, although they each plan to use different vendors for their SMS interoperability technology.
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association facilitated the cooperation agreement among the four carriers.
