Colibria Brings Mobile Instant Messaging to Over 11m Subscribers Across Scandinavia with TeliaSonera

11 Apr 2007
  • Colibria provides MSN Live Messenger solution to connect PC and mobile subscribers.
  • Service goes live in Estonia and Finland with additional roll-out to Denmark, Norway and Sweden during 2007.

Colibria, the Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) leader, is providing a hosted solution for the first MIM service from TeliaSonera. MSN Live Messenger will allow subscribers to chat instantly with friends and colleagues via mobile handsets and PCs. The service will reach more than 11m subscribers across Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden by the end of 2007.

The new service combines the feature-rich experience of internet IM with the personal nature of mobile. Colibria’s MSN Live Messenger solution supports and intuitive, engaging consumer experience built on Colibria’s leading server and client technology, including the award winning mobile clients from Thumbspeed. The immediate and expressive nature of MIM with dialogue history and emoticons gives more engaging messaging than current legacy messaging services.

EMT customers in Estonia were the first the receive the service which went live on March 26th, bringing the popular online internet chat service Microsoft Windows Live Messenger (MSN) to their mobiles.

Indra Åsander, Vice president and Head of Content Mobility Services at TeliaSonera AB said, ‘With 1.5 billion mobile devices in the world today and more than three times the number of PCs, we recognise that MIM has enormous market potential. The accessibility and great user experience of MIM make it a compelling proposition for us and our subscribers.’

Keith Gibson, CEO at Colibria commented, ‘The huge success of both SMS and IM as independent applications speak for themselves: over 750 billion text messages were sent last year and in excess of 200 million people use PC instant messaging globally. Providing TeliaSonera with the new MIM service will enable them to offer a new service to these markets and create the opportunity for enhanced revenue streams.’

About Colibria
Colibria was founded in 2000 and is already a leading international player in the field of new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) solutions. Based in Norway, Colibria also has locations in the UK, Belgium, Spain, Singapore and the Philippines. Colibria has a global customer base of mobile operators in Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as working with leading systems integrators. Strategic partners include LogicaCMG, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Nokia, and Motorola.

Colibria’s IM platform provides an end-to-end solution from advanced server technology through to innovative handset clients. It delivers the infrastructure for launching instant messaging and associated multimedia services as well as advanced IMS based messaging and presence services. Colibria is focused on ensuring interoperability between devices, platforms and operators. Its IMPS and SIP/IMS test server facilities are now the de facto standard for product and service trials, with users in over 30 countries around the world.

Colibria is an active participant in the international standards arena, contributing extensively to the OMA IMPS forum as a member of the Open Mobile Alliance, as well as the GSMA. It is also a founding member of the COMET alliance, a global consortium committed to the delivery of end-to-end converged messaging solutions.

Colibria’s investors are Northzone Ventures (www.northzone.com), Verdane Capital (www.verdanecapital.com) and Ferd Venture (www.ferdventure.no).

For more details, please contact:

Richard George / Emma Turner
Nelson Bostock
T. 020 7792 7408
E. richard.george@nelsonbostock.com / emma.turner@nelsonbostock.com