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UK Firm Does All Skype SMS |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
British SMS provider, TynTec has announced a deal that will see it provide the text messaging services for all of Skype's global 171 million users.
TynTec is a specialist SMS provisioning company that works with both
telcos and large enterprise customers. It's three main product areas
include International Messaging Transit (IMT), an SMS hubbing
technology that simplifies global interoperability of SMS between
operators by acting as an intermediary.
On the Enterprise side, TynTec has a services division which offers
businesses carrier-grade SMS messaging, enabling them to use SMS in
mission
critical applications and corporate communications, but TynTec also
provides managed services that enable operators to outsource non-core
technical activities.
This "deep-level access to the global mobile telecoms
infrastructure" and peering capabilities enables it to support Skype
SMS, a feature that lets Skype users to send SMS messages directly from
their computers to mobile phones anywhere in the world.
"Working
with Skype, who is at the cutting edge of the Internet communications
revolution, to deliver high volumes of SMS traffic is a
testament to the flexibility and quality of our offering," said TynTec's CEO Michael Kowalzik.
"By
offering single-point access to the worldwide mobile telecoms network
we are helping Skype to deliver messages on a worldwide scale,
opening up the potential for new revenue streams," Kowalzik added.
TynTec's
deep-level telecoms access combined with its proprietary SMS platform
means that it can offer Skype high volumes of SMS throughput
whilst retaining a high-quality of message delivery.
TynTec
guarantees that Skype users' SMS messages are delivered within 15
seconds, maintaining the near-real-time level of communications that
Skype users expect.
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