BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.
CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility, Microcell PCS, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility in Canada, while WSC services Nextel Communications Inc., Nextel Partners, and Nextel International.
Many have pointed to text messaging interoperability as one of the main drivers for the growth of text messaging around the world. Earlier this year, most U.S. wireless carriers set up interoperability agreements among themselves to allow users to send messages regardless of the recipient carrier using only the recipient’s phone number.
