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CNN chooses Clickatell to power SMS breaking news service
June 19, 2007

Clickatell enables users to receive CNN headlines as text messages.

London, UK, June 19 2007 - International broadcast news network CNN has chosen leading mobile messaging provider Clickatell to power the promotional version of its “Breaking News Alert” SMS service to mobile phone users around the world. The promotional service is set to go live in June.

The service will allow users to receive a headline alert as text message to their mobile phone as soon as a major international news story breaks. Clickatell's market-leading messaging aggregation and delivery solution ensures that users of the CNN service receive breaking news information via SMS as it happens, immediately and reliably, wherever they are in the world. Users can then link through to CNN's mobile news site, www.CNNmobile.com, via their handsets, for the full story.

"We are delighted to be working with CNN to deliver its "Breaking News" service," said Deon van Heerden, VP of sales for Clickatell. "CNN's selection of our global message delivery technology means that mobile phone users everywhere now experience - free-of-charge - a service that keeps them up-to-date with world affairs as they happen, via their mobile device."

Clickatell is able to keep CNN "Breaking News alert" users informed of all news updates as they happen, irrespective of their location, thanks to its robust, carrier-grade global messaging infrastructure that delivers high-priority alerts to approximately 600 mobile networks in 200 countries.

 

 

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Delivering messaging solutions since 2000, Clickatell is a global leader in mobile communications products and services to small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of vertical markets. Clickatell's multi-modal capability and worldwide coverage gives organizations the power to deliver any message to any device anywhere in the world. Reaching in excess of 700 networks in more than 200 countries, Clickatell serves 8,000 customers including Barclays Bank, BBC, Continental Airlines, CNN, Metropolitan Life, Oracle, Shell, and other industry leaders. Clickatell products and services increase customer acquisition, improve loyalty and build trusted brands through direct, personal, easy, and immediate communications. A Sequoia-backed company, Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and has offices in South Africa and the UK.

 

 

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