Verizon Taps Motorola for SMS Gateway

The USA's Verizon Wireless has selected Motorola as a software provider for a new, SMS gateway, to support Verizon Wireless' Mobile Messenger service. Mobile Messenger now offers customers the ability to send and receive short text messages directly to and from customers of most wireless carriers.

"The SMS gateway will provide advanced messaging solutions serving both enterprise customers and consumer applications alike," said Jim Straight, vice president of Wireless Data & Internet Services for Verizon Wireless. "As the nation's largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless will provide new interactive messaging services to its customers, and the SMS Gateway will serve as a launch pad for new, exciting messaging products."'"

Posted to the site on 24th April 2002