Sending SMSs to Landlines in Jamaica

Cable & Wireless bmobile customers can now send text messages from their mobile handsets to any Cable & Wireless fixed line in Jamaica. The service called TexTalk uses technology from TeleMessage, a U.S.A. - based company, to convert text messages to voice for delivery to landline phones. Senders get back a text message advising whether the message was received by someone, went to voicemail, or was not delivered at all.

"We are committed to providing bmobile and fixed line customers with dynamic and integrated telecommunications solutions", says Patrick Gillings, SVP Marketing for Cable & Wireless Jamaica. "Soon we will be expanding this to deliver text messages to fixed line phones in the United States and the wider Caribbean, and other areas where Telemessage has partnerships."

According to Mark Carlin, VP of Business Development for TeleMessage, "this service bridges the gap between those that text and those that do not. It expands the market for Cable & Wireless to involve all fixed line phone users which will help increase the text message traffic and involve more people in text messaging."

Posted to the site on 18th January 2005