Business
Agreement with Pelephone
Agreement with Pelephone.
About this update from Sigmaroc Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Messaging International Plc\n06 November 2006\n\n\n Messaging International Plc / Market: AIM / Epic: MES / Sector: Technology\n\n6 November 2006\n\n Messaging International Plc ('the Company')\n\n Web2SMS Launched with Pelephone Youth Brand\n\n\nMessaging International Plc, the AIM traded provider of innovative messaging\nservices, has, through its subsidiary TeleMessage Ltd, launched the Web2SMS\nservice with Pelephone, one of Israel's leading mobile service providers. The\nservice, which will be branded and offered under the Pelephone youth brand,\nallows Pelephone mobile subscribers to send SMS from any site, while browsing\nthe Internet.\n\nThe Web2SMS service adds an SMS Toolbar to the Internet Explorer web browser,\nallowing subscribers to send SMS from any site, while using established contact\nlists, groups or phone numbers. This Toolbar can be downloaded free of charge\nand messages sent are charged to the subscriber's mobile phone bill. Messaging\nInternational will receive a percentage of the revenues received from every\nmessage.\n\n\nThe agreement expands Messaging International's partnership with Pelephone -\nearlier this year Pelephone launched the Company's Mail2SMS service to its\ncustomers. Pelephone subscribers can now send SMS messages from the most common\nPC programmes, either Mail2SMS from Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express or\nWeb2SMS messages from the Internet Explorer Toolbar.\n\n\nMessaging International Managing Director Guy Levit commented: 'Following\nPelephone's successful launch of our Mail2SMS solution, the natural step was to\nexpand the service to the youth market. The Toolbar and Outlook Express Plug-in\nare ideal interfaces for this market segment.'\n\n\nSchraga Mor, Pelephone's VP Content and Services commented: 'Being able to\naddress all mobile market segments from the PC is extremely important and helps\nus give an end-to-end solution to our customer base. We are the first operator\nin Israel to launch the unique PC to Mobile messaging interfaces and we are\nlooking forward to launching additional services based on TeleMessage's\ninnovative technology.'\n\n\n - ENDS -\n\n\nContacts:\n\nGuy Levit Messaging International Plc Tel: + 972 3 9225252\n\nIsabel Crossley St Brides Media & Finance Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 20 7242 4477\n\n\n\nNotes\n\nMessaging International Plc\n\nMessaging Inter...