David Lloyd, Director of Sema Telecoms Messaging said, Sema SMSC and instant messaging together is a winning solution for operators who want to offer their subscribers innovative enhanced services, whilst increasing their billable traffic revenue.

Mr Lloyd added, Sema is the pioneer of SMS, delivering the world’s first commercial short message in December 1992 and AOL is the leader in instant messaging services. Integrating two highly scaleable proven messaging solutions will enable operators world-wide to increase customer loyalty and grow network usage through SMS traffic in a market where competition is fierce.

We hope our relationship with Sema will help America Online bring our premier instant messaging applications directly to the leading mobile operators around the world, Lex Felker, senior vice president, AOL Mobile commented to the press.