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sunrise To Connect SMS With All Major Instant Messaging Networks Via The Odigo SMS-IM Gateway
Posted by WDN, October 18, 2001
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND AND NEW YORK, NY -- sunrise, the Swiss telecommunications provider, and Odigo, Inc., the leading
provider of instant messaging and presence solutions to wireless carriers, Telcos, ISPs, and portals worldwide, announced today that sunrise will integrate the Odigo SMS-IM
Gateway into the sunrise mobile messaging solution.
The SMS-IM Gateway, a new product co-developed by Odigo with Italy's Wireless Solutions, will enable instant messaging between sunrise's Short Message Service (SMS) and all
major instant messaging (IM) networks. The new service will allow sunrise mobile users to access their IM contact lists and send (and receive) instant messages to and from other
IM users from any SMS-enabled phone.
The Odigo SMS-IM Gateway
(SMS-IM Gateway components are within the dashed rectangle)
"We see tremendous consumer value in providing SMS access to the highly popular IM services," said Rene Burgener, E-Business & Internet Director at sunrise. "With mobile
access to IM buddies, and with a connection to all IM networks across all platforms, our users will have the world's most accessible, user-friendly, converged messaging service
available anywhere."
Over the past two years, instant messaging has been adopted by millions of users for both consumer and professional use. Today, there are over 15 billion SMS and over 30 billion
Internet instant messages sent monthly. The ability to connect the two networks has great potential for increasing a provider's revenues from mobile-originated and mobile-terminated
SMS traffic.
"Wireless messaging will be a tremendous growth market for sunrise, particularly now with the integration of their desktop and mobile messaging solutions," stated Micha Macover,
Odigo CEO. "We are extremely pleased to extend our strong IM relationship with sunrise to include the SMS-IM Gateway."
The mobile SMS-IM Gateway will be made available to sunrise users in the coming weeks.
About sunrise
sunrise is the brand name of TDC Switzerland AG, the company resulting from the merger of the telecommunications companies diAx and sunrise. The shareholders' meeting of TDC
Switzerland AG consists of: Tele Danmark 78.6%, d Holding 16.6%, SBB 2.6% and UBS 2.1%. sunrise offers its customers state-of-the-art telecommunications services in the
areas of mobile phone, fixed network and Internet. The sunrise mobile phone network has the most modern GSM dual band infrastructure in Switzerland and already provides a
mobile phone coverage of over 95%. sunrise disposes of a high-quality, high-performance fiber optic network with a total length of 5,900 kilometers - Swiss-wide. Presently, sunrise
has approximately 2,000 employees.
About Odigo, Inc.
Odigo, Inc. is the leading provider of Instant Messaging and Presence Solutions to wireless carriers, Telcos, ISPs, and portals worldwide. Odigo's services include developing
private-label IM clients, hosting IM and Presence services and installing complete IM and Presence solutions. Odigo, founded in 1998, is a U.S. based company with headquarters in
New York City.
All Odigo IM Solutions are based on the company's Open Instant Messaging Platform, which enables the most interoperable, robust and intuitive Instant Messaging services
extensible to any Internet-enabled device. Over 100 companies have licensed Odigo's IM Solutions, including British Telecom, Austria Telecom, Hungary Telecom, Prodigy,
StarMedia, Netease, DreamNet (of NTT DoCoMo) and Univision. Learn more at www.odigo.com
About Wireless Solutions
Established in Bologna in March 2000, Wireless Solutions Spa is one of the leading WASPs (Wireless Application Service Provider) in Europe and is the point of reference in the
Italian market for the development and supply of Internet services integrated with mobile phone technology such as WAP, SMS, GPRS and UMTS. Independent Internet company
DADA, listed on the New Market, acquired control of Wireless Solutions in February 2001.
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