Articles tagged with: Mobile Messaging and Smsc
Mobile Operators Brace for Global Surge in Mobile Messaging Abuse
Messaging security firm, Cloudmark has published the results of its research into mobile messaging abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe which point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. more
Related Tags: google, sim-card, mms, text-messaging, walled-garden, chief-technology-officer, mobile-advertising, spam, virus, sms-spam, cloudmark, storm, radar
The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many deals was signed with Telenor. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, acision, telenor
New SMSC Gives Operators Path to Internet Messaging
LogicaCMG has announced the latest release of its Short Message Service Centre, the Next Generation IP SMSC, which is IMS-ready and interoperable with fixed and mobile Instant Messaging (IM) platforms. more
Related Tags: instant-messaging, mobile-instant-messaging
Celcom Boosts its Messaging and Prepaid Capacity
LogicaCMG says that it has deployed a major mobile messaging and mobile payments upgrade with Malaysia's Celcom, serving over 5 million prepaid subscribers. The contract valued at approximately over US$16 million includes the deployment of LogicaCMG's Next Generation Short Messaging Service Centre (SMSC), Intelligent Network Platform, Pre-Delivery Service Agent and Business Tools solutions. more
Related Tags: mobile-payments, customer-care, intelligent-network, celcom
LogicaCMG has won a contract with Bahrain's Batelco to upgrade its existing LogicaCMG mobile messaging platform to an IP-based Next Generation Messaging solution. In addition, Batelco has selected LogicaCMG's Direct-delivery Message Router (DMR) to achieve flexible and cost-efficient SMS delivery on a single platform. Batelco will be the first operator in the region to implement DMR within their SMS network. more
Related Tags: batelco
Mobile spam becoming a major problem
Empower Interactive has published the findings of a study into mobile SPAM. The research, conducted in parallel among the global mobile network operator community and a sample of mobile subscribers, highlights the need for the introduction of suitable mechanisms to launch a consistent and unified defence against this growing threat. more
Related Tags: gsm-association, spam

