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Vodafone Group Plc: VERIZON WIRELESS AND VODAFONE CO-OPERATE ON TRANSATLANTIC
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VERIZON WIRELESS AND VODAFONE CO-OPERATE ON TRANSATLANTIC
TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE FOR CUSTOMERS
Verizon Wireless, the leading U.S. wireless service provider, and Vodafone, the
world’s largest mobile community, today announces that they are introducing
transatlantic text messaging. This collaboration will enable their respective
customers to send and receive text messages between the Verizon Wireless CDMA
network and Vodafone’s GSM networks.
The transatlantic text messaging services will be introduced on a phased basis
in the U.S. and 10 of Vodafone’s GSM networks. All Verizon Wireless customers
with TXT messaging-capable handsets, and Vodafone customers across Germany,
Greece, Ireland*, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
and the UK, will be able to use the service beginning in early 2004. Vodafone
intends to extend the service to an even wider footprint during 2004.
Each text message sent travels between GSM and CDMA networks and is converted
by InphoMatch, a U.S. vendor, before being forwarded to the recipient’ s
handset. Testing of the process shows that the conversion process and message
delivery occurs within seconds.
John Stratton, VP and chief marketing officer at Verizon Wireless,
noted, “Vodafone and Verizon Wireless are helping to make the world a little
smaller as we mobilize our strengths to provide transatlantic text messaging.”
“The existing collaboration between Verizon Wireless and Vodafone continues to
flourish and is now moving into new areas. The introduction of this new era of
transatlantic text messaging services is a clear indication to our customers
that, as well as introducing innovative new global multimedia services, we
continue to improve our existing service offerings,” said Peter Bamford, Chief
Marketing Officer, Vodafone.
Notes
* Vodafone Ireland has already initiated a pre-Christmas marketing campaign for
the service.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is the world’s largest mobile community with over 125m proportionate
customers worldwide and equity interests in 26 countries and Partner Networks
in a further 10 countries. http://www.vodafone.com
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is the leading provider of wireless communications in the
U.S. The company has the largest nationwide wireless voice and data network
and 36 million customers. Headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, Verizon Wireless is
a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE:
VOD). Find more information on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com.
For further information:
Vodafone Group
Tim Brown, Group Corporate Affairs Director
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310
Investor Relations
Melissa Stimpson
Darren Jones
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310
Media Relations
Jon Earl
Janine Young
Emma Conlon
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310
Tavistock Communications
John West
Justin Griffiths
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7920 3150
Verizon Wireless
Jeffrey Nelson
Tel: +1 908 306 4824
Jeffrey.Nelson@VerizonWireless.com
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