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Vodafone transatlantic text messaging service
Verizon Wireless and Vodafone co-operate on transatlantic
text messaging service for customers
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December 2003
Verizon Wireless, the leading U.S. wireless service
provider, and Vodafone, the world's largest mobile community,
today announces that they are introducing transatlantic text messaging.
This collaboration will enable their respective customers to send
and receive text messages between the Verizon Wireless CDMA network
and Vodafone's GSM networks.
The transatlantic text messaging services will be
introduced on a phased basis in the U.S. and 10 of Vodafone's
GSM networks. All Verizon Wireless customers with TXT messaging-capable
handsets, and Vodafone customers across Germany, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and
the UK, will be able to use the service beginning in early 2004.
Vodafone intends to extend the service to an even wider footprint
during 2004.
Each text message sent travels between GSM and CDMA
networks and is converted by InphoMatch, a U.S. vendor, before
being forwarded to the recipient's handset. Testing of the process
shows that the conversion process and message delivery occurs
within seconds.
John Stratton, VP and chief marketing officer at
Verizon Wireless, noted, "Vodafone and Verizon Wireless are
helping to make the world a little smaller as we mobilize our
strengths to provide transatlantic text messaging."
"The existing collaboration between Verizon
Wireless and Vodafone continues to flourish and is now moving
into new areas. The introduction of this new era of transatlantic
text messaging services is a clear indication to our customers
that, as well as introducing innovative new global multimedia
services, we continue to improve our existing service offerings,"
said Peter Bamford, Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone.
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