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Mobile Streams chooses Mobileway to deliver SMS content to its North American subscribers

San Ramon - 3 June 2002: 
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Mobileway, the global leader in managing and monetizing mobile transactions, announced today that it has been selected by Mobile Streams™ to enable delivery of SMS content to their North American mobile subscribers. 

Mobile Streams owns and operates a network of more than 225 different websites about nonvoice™ mobile communications. Through this range of consumer and industry sites, Mobile Streams offers its own internally developed research, information, software, services and content. Mobileway has been selected to deliver this content, including ring tones, logos and picture messaging via SMS. 

This agreement follows a successful 60-day trial period with selection based on the strength of Mobileway’s support, superior quality-of-service, breadth of connections and also the company’s ability to work with Mobile Streams on defining content solutions for the next generation of messaging technologies. 

Jim Queen, Vice President for Mobileway in North America, commented, “We are delighted to be selected by Mobile Streams as it is a true testament to the strength of Mobileway’s service offering. Mobile Streams is well known in the mobile community and we look forward to working with them We are now seeing the beginnings of the long awaited growth in the US messaging market, as companies such as Mobile Streams expand their business with content offerings to North American. mobile subscribers.”

It is anticipated that volumes for these services will quickly grow to millions of SMS messages a month. 

Simon Buckingham, CEO of Mobile Streams said, “We, at Mobile Streams, have both a long and successful track record of providing SMS services for our many and varied clients in Europe where the messaging market is mature. It has been evident for some time that the potential for these types of services is enormous in North America also, but with all the technical and commercial barriers, which have impeded widespread adoption to date this, has been a tricky market to penetrate. Using a company such as Mobileway with existing connections in place to key operators in the US, enables us to bypass these barriers and enable American mobile users to enjoy the same wireless services as their European counterparts.”

Extending their relationship beyond SMS delivery in the States, Mobile Streams and Mobileway are also working together at a corporate level to address and tackle the issues facing the delivery and billing of mobile content based upon EMS and MMS. 

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Mobileway is the leader in managing & monetizing mobile transactions across the globe. With direct connections to 88 mobile carriers, Mobileway has unrivalled reach to 90% of mobile users throughout the World, guaranteeing cost effective, secure deployment of mobile applications to professional and personal mobile users. 

By expanding the reach of lifestyle services such as instant messaging, infotainment, mobile marketing, m-commerce and enterprise applications, Mobileway increases the value of mobile data for operators, content providers and corporations alike. 

Incorporated in Delaware USA, Mobileway has offices located throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.Mobileway.com .

 

 

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