Submitted by Mike Grenville on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:45

Fourteen African mobile operators have signed with Mobile 365 for SMS inter-connectivity in the last six months.

The mobile operators include Telecel Ivory Coast with over 950,000 subscribers; Telcel Niger, Telcel Togo and Telcel Central Africa; Loteny, Ivory Coast;, Telecel in the Central African Republic; Vodacom Lesotho; Ghana Telecom; Celcom Liberia; SNPT Comores; and Areeba Sudan. Through Outremer Telecom, subscribers in French Guyana have been connected with services in Reunion, Martinique, and Guadeloupe to be launched by the company later this year. A further 130,000 Vodacom subscribers have been connected in Lesotho and over 210,000 through Celtel Uganda.

The three million subscribers of these mobile operators are now able to send and receive text messages from most corners of the world.

"Africa has the fastest mobile growth rate in the world, and Mobile 365 will continue to increase its strong presence in the region. With 60 current operator customers on the continent, Africa plays an important role in our global reach," said Paul Ruppert, Mobile 365 Vice President, Operator Sales Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa (EMEAA).