TeleMessage

Corporate history

TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds. In August 2005, Messaging International PLC acquired TeleMessage. The company then went public and was traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM section under the Messaging International name. In August 2016, after being a public company for 11 years, TeleMessage delisted from the London Stock Exchange and privatized. All management and major shareholders remain the same.

Guy Levit is the current CEO and Horacio Furman is the company chairman.

Products

TeleMessage's solutions consists of 4 product lines: Mobile and Tablet Apps, Messaging Gateway, PC to Mobile and SMS to Voice.

The most distinctive feature of TeleMessage is its ability to send and receive messages from one technology to another. For example, a text message can be sent from a computer to a landline, or a SMS message from a mobile phone to a landline. The receiver of the message then has the option of replying to the message.

The latest product line, "Mobile and Tablet Applications", available for iOS and Android devices, enable mobile operators to enhance their existing messaging solutions and revenue streams with white-labeled handset applications, which subscribers are already downloading from the Appstores. The TeleMessage solutions are focused on Mobile Operator's needs and increase existing SMS/MMS messaging revenues for consumers and enterprises while embedding IP messaging as consumers try other free services.

The "Messaging Gateway" includes various interfaces for content providers, enterprises and Facebook developers to send out messages (mainly SMS/MMS/IP but also Voice, Fax and email) to customers and employees. The gateway includes the following interfaces: HTTP, SMTP, XML, SMPP, MM7, MM4, Facebook, SNPP, WCTP and bundles the "Mobile and Handset Applications" and "PC to Mobile Products" in the same product.

Another product line, "PC to Mobile", offers multi-format messaging services primarily focused around the PC. The PC to Mobile solution comes in several interfaces: as a plug-in for Outlook, Outlook Express, Toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox, Widgets, Gadgets and Web interfaces. During 2011, TeleMessage also added a Facebook application to the "PC to Mobile" product line enabling users to send and receive SMS, MMS and other types of messages to their Facebook accounts.

Gizmodo has reported that Verizon, one of the largest cellular phone companies in the U.S., will add TeleMessage to its services as of June 2007.