mBlox Responsible for Powering Skype SMS Service

7:00 am on July 31, 2006 | Category: Telecom Services, VoIP, Web Services, Wireless

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The world’s top mobile transaction network, mBlox, revealed recently that its mobile billing service is used to support Skype SMS, a feature that lets Skype VoIP users send text messages to any mobile phone in the world, using a computer.

The SMS feature is available to all paid subscribers using Skype 2.5, and costs around $0.10 for each outbound message sent.

“mBlox’s network reaches out to our customers worldwide and their DirectPlus MT SMS product set ticked all the boxes for us,” said Skype’s director or paid products, Michael Jackson. “Load tests and measurements showed that it could meet the demanding needs of our users. Being able to measure message-delivery successes and failures is also essential and mBlox’s service gives us visibility into the status of our mobile transaction. At this point online Skype users can send SMS messages to mobile, but we are looking to extend this feature.”

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