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CHIKKA.COM, creators of the popular Internet gateway
to texting mobiles phones, announced its connectivity to all mobile
network operators in the United Kingdom including Vodafone, 02,
T-Mobile, Virgin, 3 and Orange. Chikaís patented “unified account
systems” will allow UK mobile users to log-on to their PC-based IM
using their mobile numbers to enjoy instant messaging whether
on-line or on-the-go, all via simple SMS.
“Now anyone, anywhere in the
world may send free text messages from our instant messenger [IM] to
all mobile phones in the UK,” said Chito Bustamante, chief
operating officer of Chikka Asia, Inc. “With our new connectivity
to operators in the UK, Chikka is uniting hundreds of thousands of
Filipinos in the UK with loved ones back home. But in the last
years, we have also connected to operators in the US and India, It
is equally exciting to open mobile instant messaging between these
countries and their migrant populations,” said Bustamante.
With all major carriers supported
in the UK, the service becomes available to over 70 million mobile
subscribers in the country. Among the worldís highly sophisticated
mobile cultures, UK mobile users send 4.7 million messages every
hour, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA).
“We are proud to bring Chikka,
the most reliable PC to mobile messaging, to such an exciting mobile
market,” added Bustamante. “The online world will appreciate the
seamless connectivity to mobile subscribers in the UK, an important
financial and commercial center and a melting pop of many
cultures.”
Launched in 2001, Chikka created
the world’s first mobile instant messaging to run on SMS. with
over 35 million registered users in the Philippines alone.  --Tech
Times
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