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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
General Wireless Offers Innovative eSMS Technology
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 14 -- eSMS enables users to send,
receive, forward and reply to SMS messages from Microsoft Outlook's email
program. Thanks to an agreement with Starhome and General Wireless, Vodafone
Netherlands customers can now enjoy this new service, named PC SMS.
As a leading mobile operator in the Netherlands with a broad customer
base, Vodafone Netherlands is constantly seeking innovative ways to improve
its service offering. The new eSMS service, named PC SMS, is a further step
in this direction.
Downloadable free of charge from http://www.vodafone.nl , Vodafones Netherland's
PC SMS lets subscribers send, receive, forward and reply to SMS directly from
their MS-Outlook, using already established contact lists for both
individuals and groups. Customers pay for the SMS messages sent via their
monthly phone bill. In a first stage, the service will be available to
business subscribers only. Consumer subscribers will be offered the service
at a later date.
"SMS has long been a preferred communication method among teen mobile
phone users. Today, there is growing awareness of the commercial potential of
short messaging in the business segments and SMS services are increasingly
being integrated in corporate communication solutions. We are very pleased
that Vodafone Netherlands has chosen our technology for its new service",
said Anders Hardebring, CEO at General Wireless.
eSMS Executive opens up new ways for today's 1 billion mobile subscribers
and 500 million PC users to communicate by converging the technologies of
email programs and SMS into two-way eSMS. This new groundbreaking solution
enables mobile operators worldwide to provide a user-friendly service to
mobile subscribers, driving SMS traffic.
About General Wireless (http://www.generalwireless.com )
General Wireless provides user-friendly, two-way eSMS solutions to mobile
operators for corporate and personal use. The company is a Microsoft Office
Marketplace partner in many countries as well as an IBM Partnerworld partner.
Customers include mobile operators such as Telecom Italia Mobile, Vodafone,
Orange, O2 and Telia.
About Vodafone Netherlands (http://www.vodafone.nl )
Vodafone is one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies in the
Netherlands and is a part of the worldwide Vodafone Group, the world's
largest telecommunications company for mobile telephony with 133.4 million
customers. The Vodafone Group has participations in the share capital of
mobile operators in 26 countries. It also has a joint venture with networks
in 13 countries.
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