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Indigo Corporation to Greatly Expand Coverage Area for SuperTEXT, Its International SMS Service in Japan

Posted on: Monday, 10 September 2007, 09:00 CDT

Indigo Corporation, in conjunction with its conclusion of comprehensive agreement for worldwide short-message service (SMS) termination with major overseas SMS hub company, is working to expand its available coverage area greatly for its "SuperTEXT" service, which allows mobile users to exchange SMS messages among cell phones with Japan and overseas with reasonable price, and billable through the KDDI Super World Card PLUS TEXT provided by KDDI Corporation.

In addition to the seven countries and two regions (The People's Republic of China, South Korea, the republic of the Philippines, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Guam and Saipan) currently available, the first stage of expansion will see connections begin in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mongolia. As the coverage area expands to eleven countries and two regions. Also there are plans to expand coverage to approximately ten more countries in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Middle East (Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, among others) before year's end, to further allow customers timely and comfortable communication with their friends and family.

Indigo is an information network company and a total services solution provider that use technology to bring together people and dreams. Indigo, a company focused on creating real value, endeavors to develop and provide services that are truly unique and unsurpassed in quality. Indigo provides a wide variety of e-mail-SMS conversion services and solutions by leveraging its own carrier-class SMSC (Short Messaging Service Center) and an array of applications such as multi-language text input tool, as well as a messaging platform for MVNOs and MVNEs that utilizes its years of experience in massive mail platforms (MMPs) for domestic ISPs. It is the result of Indigo's accumulated expertise and experience in the development and operation of e-mail infrastructure systems and open source software technologies and related services to ISPs and other businesses that place e-mail systems at the core of operations.

-- SuperTEXT

"SuperTEXT" was begun in Japan in 2003 as a pioneering service that allowed all mobile users in Japan such as au by KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, SoftBank Mobile and WILLCOM to communicate with persons living overseas through dedicated e-mail-SMS conversion gateway performing message conversion from e-mail to SMS when the users in Japan send messages abroad, and vice versa. ; it has subsequently been adopted and used by several hundred thousand non-Japanese residents of Japan and Japanese citizens alike as a great way to stay in touch with friends and family overseas.

-- Web links

SuperTEXT

For PCs http://www.indigo.co.jp/super-text/index.html

For cell phones: http://www.stxt.jp/mobile/top.do

KDDI Super World Card PLUS TEXT

For PCs

http://www.kddi.com/phone/denwa/card/kddi_super_world/index.html

Source: Business Wire

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