Deutsche Telekom ICSS provides extended international messaging coverage with new SMX service (SMS eXchange)

Bonn, February 16, 2009 – Today, ICSS, the international wholesale division of Deutsche Telekom, announced the launch of SMX (SMS eXchange), a new service to provide seamless, worldwide termination of high-quality SMS messages regardless of the network and destination country. SMX is an SMS hubbing service that offers a “one stop shop, one hub, one contract, one bill solution” with extended international connectivity and without additional investment to SMS aggregators, MNOs, and MVNOs  through a single interface – ICSS.

The product consists of two independent offers: SMX one-way and SMX two-way. SMX two-way is based on the GSMA open connectivity standard about SMS hubbing. SMX two-way is ICSS’s first-class offer and is focused on MNOs and MVNOs. It enables them to send person-to-person SMS messages to other networks, while receiving person-to-person SMS messages into their own networks from other participating operators. Like in the market place, network operators can arrange interworking agreements with other participants through the SMX Web Portal.

This secure online interface provides an overview of the status of current connectivity and the possibility to configure future SMX relations with other participating operators (mobile operators connected to an SMS hubbing service provided by ICSS or competitive providers if peering is in place).

The SMX Web Portal also enables easy exchange between the two services.

SMX one-way is considered as a supporting offer and allows SMS aggregators to terminate their SMS’ in their preferred networks.

“With our new one-stop-shopping solution our customers benefit from a comprehensive global SMS footprint without further investment and without needing to take new international roaming agreements into consideration," Helmut Angst, Senior Vice President ICSS, says. “As a result, they have more time to concentrate on customer satisfaction and ultimately enjoy end customer’s loyalty and retention.

About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)

ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe, the Americas and Asia.

With continuously changing markets, ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultramodern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.

For further information, see http://www.deutschetelekom.com/icss