March 23, 2004

AT&T Wireless Opens for Transatlantic Texting

AT&T Wireless said on Tuesday its 22 million US customers could send and receive short SMS text messages to over 263 million mobile phone users in Europe, reports Boston.com.

"AT&T Wireless signed deals with 71 European operators in 25 European countries, reaching over 263 million European handset users, including most in Britain and Italy".

Interesting

"Some 66 percent of British text messaging users were under the false impression that their SMS could reach the U.S., KRC Research of London found in a study funded by AT&T".

emily | 4:58 PM | News, Buzz | Add this this entry to your del.icio.us bookmarks. Digg This Technorati search results for this Entry
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2004/03/003373.htm
Google+ FaceBook rsslogo.gif
Home | About | ArchivesCopyright © 2012