Thursday, April 5, 2007

Clickatell Leads Charge for Global SMS Capability

Source : home.businesswire.com
Widest Two-Way Messaging Demonstrated at CTIA
CTIA Wireless 2007
Booth #4668
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clickatell Inc., the world’s #1 global mobile messaging operator, today announced its customers can receive reply SMSs using its popular Communicator application. Visitors to CTIA Wireless in Orlando from 27 – 29 March will be able to see demonstrations of the service at Clickatell’s booth # 4668.
With strong coverage in the North American market, the two-way, or reply SMS, functionality is available on a record breaking 400+ networks worldwide.
This launch of two-way text functionality allows Clickatell customers to receive replies to the local and international SMSs they have sent, straight to their Communicator inbox. This powerful functionality allows businesses and consumers to engage in a dialogue or launch a response-centric alert program.
Clickatell is seeing a massive adoption of messaging in small, medium and large enterprises as they increasingly acknowledge the importance of targeted, real-time customer communication and interaction. This new functionality allows more effective communication for anyone from a teacher arranging football practice, to a business sending account status updates to its customers, to governments looking for input from its citizens.
Clickatell Communicator (http://communicator.clickatell.com/) is the easy to use, cost-effective web-based bulk SMS application offered by the global messaging company. Customers access a web interface that resembles an online email browser and with the click of a button are able to send SMS messages to as many as 1,000 recipients. Mobile numbers can be easily uploaded to the address book, and once customers have bought messaging credits, they can start sending and receiving their texts on their computer.
The software interfaces with the carrier-grade Clickatell messaging gateway, which offers text and multimodal messaging on over 600 networks around the world. Clickatell currently has business and consumer customers around the world using the free Communicator application.
About Clickatell, Inc.
Clickatell is the premier global mobile messaging operator with over 8,000 customers across 600 networks spanning almost 200 countries. Two-way messaging is available on more than 400 networks. Clickatell's messaging gateways connect directly and securely with the infrastructure of carriers worldwide. This enables Clickatell to guarantee delivery and receipt of massive quantities of inbound and outbound messages in real-time to any device, i.e. cell phone, smart phone, landline, fax, pager, PC or any IP-connected device. Clickatell's enterprise-grade Multimode Messaging Manager is built on open architecture and standards allowing today's devices to connect transparently across multiple channels. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, the company has offices in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

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