Short Message Services are playing a bigger role as a major growth opportunity for mobile operators worldwide.
Growth of volumes especially international SMSes has placed pressures on operators to establish quality and efficient process of setting up roaming and interworking agreements between each other.
Mobile operators are seeking new ways to manage existing traffic relationships in order to minimize Capex and Opex while increasing revenues opportunities.
More than 650 operators worldwide provide SMS services and the international traffic between networks is growing rapidly. Until today, operators implemented their SMS interworking relationships between each other based on bilateral technical and commercial solution to send and receive SMS to multiple destinations around the world.
Because most operators do not have bilateral agreements with all foreign networks or foreign network is seeking for SMS interworking agreement (AA.19), there is a lack of coverage and revenue oportinuities.
To meet the challanges Operators are facing Mobik Luxemburg SMS HUB platform is providing International SMS service, which is ideal solution for the Mobile Network Operators looking for international reachability by reducing costs and complex roaming agreement structures.
Mobik Luxemburg SMS HUB supports all the industry reqiured routing options as defined by the GSM Association. Hub allows operators to SMS inter-work with other operators connected to the same or inter cnnected HUBs via single, multilateral agreement.
This is far simpler than having to manage one bilateral agreement for SMS with every SMS interworking partner.
Mobik Luxemburg SMS HUB supports different connection options:
IP to IP (SMPP, UCD, CDMA, LTE…),
IP to SS7,
SS7 to SS7,
SS7 to IP,
and features:
Mobile number portability (MNP) support,
Messages segmentation support (for long SMSs more than 160 characters),
Per operator interoperability agreements control, through blacklists and whitelists,
Routing and charging transparency assurance,
QoS, usage and performance reports,
Anti-Fraud and Anti-Spam control features and reports,
Optional non-GSM operators SS7 interoperability support,
Contact Mobik Luxemburg team for complete SMS HUB presentation.
E-mail: info@mobik.lu
