Vyke Launch Free SMS Messaging Service.

Posted by Fox on June 19, 2007 at 2:19 PM

Mobile users worldwide will from today be able to send free text messages worldwide. Launched today by Vyke Communications plc (AIM: VYKE), a leading mobile VoIP provider, Vyke Pro is set to radically reduce the cost of sending text messages for UK consumers.

Vyke Pro is an easily downloadable programme that is compatible with all recent Java enabled handsets. It offers UK mobile users the opportunity to drastically reduce the exorbitant charges they are currently paying by using its smart message routing technology. This allows Vyke Pro users to send free text messages to other Vyke Pro users around the world, or to send normal text messages to non Vyke Pro users for as little as 1p per message. Vyke Pro is also able to remotely start-up the recipient’s Vyke Pro software and deliver messages instantaneously. This "wake up" technology replicates the always-on-time delivery of messages that has been a key part of the popularity of SMS.

For international calls, Vyke Pro provides users with a low cost alternative with Vyke Communications’ high quality dial back service. With the ‘Call’ feature in Vyke Pro, a user is able to set up a call to any number worldwide. After the user selects the number they would like to call, the Vyke service calls back to the user almost instantaneously and then connects them with the number they are calling.

Jan Christian Berger, EVP of Global Sales for Vyke AS said, "Everyone thinks that SMS is a cheap way to communicate at a typical cost of 12p per message. However, character by character, SMS is one of the most expensive ways in the world to move information. Vyke Pro finally frees users from the stranglehold that the mobile operators have had on mobile messaging. Why should users continue to pay exorbitant rates for text messaging and international calls?"

For more information or to try Vyke Pro, visit: www.vyke.com