SINGAPORE-Mobile 365 has inked deals to provide text messaging delivery and data services with six Asian operators since January, the company said.
Using the CommunicAsia 2005 conference as a backdrop, the company announced partnerships with carriers such as Pakistan’s Paktel GSM, Nepal Telecom, Vietnam’s Viettel and China’s MDC Telecom during the past six months. The short message service interoperability pacts allow subscribers to send and receive text messages across operators.
“Asian mobile subscribers continue to be the leading message texters in the world, and these six operator agreements ensure their global leadership in offering customers the best, direct-connect reach,” said Paul Ruppert, a Mobile 365 vice president for operator sales.
The Virginia-based Mobile 365, which provides multimedia messaging service interoperability for several major U.S. carriers, made several other announcements, including the launch of a global interoperator MMS service allowing users to send images, video and sound across international networks. The company also said it invested $15 million to develop a data platform that includes Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem and Session Initiation Protocol technologies and creates a single infrastructure for data delivery and monetization. Mobile 365 also released a new billing platform for WAP and Internet transactions across a global network of billing connections.
