American SMS Carrier Selects MMS Software

Empower Interactive has been selected as the base platform for InphoAccess, InphoMatch's content delivery service. The solution, supplied by Empower and customised by InphoMatch for the USA market, enables SMS and MMS content messaging services for InphoMatch's carrier and content provider customers.

Empower delivered a high capacity, carrier grade Messaging Service Platform (MSP), which handles a substantial portion of the SMS and MMS needs for the InphoAccess service. The MSP enables InphoMatch to rapidly add and facilitate multiple content providers using multiple protocols from a single system. InphoMatch added routing for Wireless Number Portability and Number Pooling functionality to the system. The solution is also suitable for high volume, premium billed activities such as televoting.

Richard Shearer, Chairman and Chief Executive of Empower Interactive, says: "The North American market is a key region for Empower. Our success with InphoMatch demonstrates our commitment to North America and reaffirms our strategy of supplying mobile operators and mobile service providers globally."

Ed Gildar, North American Regional Director of Empower Interactive, adds: "InphoMatch plays a critical part as the leading interoperability vendor for the North American messaging market. Empower is pleased to help InphoMatch to continue its success and is very excited to have it as a customer."

"With the release of InphoAccess, we're igniting the next phase of wireless messaging growth in the United States - content delivery," said Phil Sweatman, CEO of InphoMatch, Inc. "Empower provided a critical portion of the technology to support the InphoAccess offering. Additionally, its messaging experience and responsiveness to our needs has been crucial in allowing us to get InphoAccess to market quickly."

Posted to the site on 23rd April 2003