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CounterPath Announces Release of Messaging Convergence Gateway to Enable SMS between VoIP and Mobile Subscribers
Allows VoIP users to send and receive SMS text messages between CounterPath softphones and mobile...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nAllows VoIP users to send and receive SMS text messages between\nCounterPath softphones and mobile network devices\n\n\nVANCOUVER, April 1 /CNW/ - CounterPath Corporation (TSX-V: CCV; OTCBB:\nCPAH), a leading provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and\nsolutions, today announced the general availability of its Messaging\nConvergence Gateway (MCG). The MCG is a carrier-based, core-network messaging\nserver that bridges VoIP and mobile networks' Short Messaging Service (SMS)\ninfrastructure. With the MCG, service providers can enable their VoIP\nsoftphone subscribers to send and receive SMS text messages to and from mobile\nphone numbers by adding a non-intrusive gateway component to their existing\ninfrastructure.\n\n\n"SMS has surpassed telephone calls to become today's most widely used\nmeans of device-driven communication," said Donovan Jones, CEO of CounterPath.\n"Until now, consumers were unable to seamlessly send SMS text messages from\ntheir mobile phones to VoIP numbers. CounterPath's MCG technology changes that\nby freeing SMS from mobile devices and extending it to consumers using our\nBria softphone on their PC. This groundbreaking technology changes the\nlandscape of mobile communications and provides numerous benefits to VoIP\nservice providers and consumers alike, most notably taking consumers one step\ncloser to single-number identity, a key aspect of Unified Communications."\n\n\nThe MCG is designed for fixed VoIP systems with assigned telephone\nnumbers. Once deployed in the VoIP operator network, the MCG allows two-way\ntext communication between CounterPath's Bria softphone and mobile devices.\nDeployed in this manner, there is no need to replicate the mobile operator's\nSMS infrastructure, as neither a Messaging Service Centre (SMSC), or Home\nLocation Register (HLR), is required. This greatly reduces capital expenditure\nand complexity for rolling out SMS services to VoIP users and provides an\nadditional revenue opportunity for service providers.\n\n\nAdditional benefits to service providers include greater adoption and\nstickiness of their softphone services and ease of implementation. Consumers\nbenefit from significantly more streamlined communications: they no longer\nhave to leave their PCs to send and receive text messages with their mobile\ncontacts and the t...