3Cinteractive Blog

NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today announced that 3Cinteractive, an industry-leading mobile marketing and technology firm, has extended its contract for NeuStar’s Wireless Message Routing Service (WMRS).

WMRS is a vital service integrated within 3Cinteractive’s Switchblade mobile marketing platform, which powers interactive mobile campaigns for some of the world’s largest and most recognizable brands. Additionally, WMRS is helping power 3Cinteractive’s Text Collect platform, which enables collect calls to mobile phones. The Text Collect service is utilized by correctional facilities around the country, one of the largest U.S. Telecommunications Carriers, and other facilities that utilize collect calling. Text Collect combines Interactive Voice Response, SMS and Premium SMS (PSMS) mobile billing, producing the only service that allows telecom operators to complete collect calls to mobile phones.

“NeuStar’s WMRS service is vital to our Text Collect platform,” said Mark Smith, 3Cinteractive’s Chief Operating Officer. “The Text Collect platform will process several million collect call attempts to mobile phones this year, and WMRS gives us immediate and reliable information critical to delivering these calls to consumers.”

“We are very excited to announce our continued relationship with 3Cinteractive in providing them with our WMRS service,” said Mike Misheff, vice president of Converged Addressing at NeuStar. “3Cinteractive’s continued endorsement of WMRS allows them to provide real-time and accurate information to their Text Collect platform for IVR and Premium SMS enabling mobile collect calls. This is one of many innovative applications that harness the flexibility of WMRS.”

NeuStar’s WMRS is an IP addressing service that enables the real-time routing of SMS and MMS wireless messages among mobile operators, content providers, aggregators, and other entities that enable the routing and billing of wireless messaging. 3Cinteractive’s platform queries NeuStar’s WMRS database whenever MMS or SMS messages are sent by 3Cinteractive subscribers; the database then identifies the correct destination for the message, ensuring a swift, successful, and cost-effective delivery. Available since 2003, WMRS currently provides routing information for hundreds of millions of MMS and SMS messages per month.

About NeuStar
NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) provides market-leading and innovative services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world. For more information, visit www.neustar.biz.

About 3Cinteractive
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, 3Cinteractive is an industry-leading mobile marketing and technology firm. 3Ci provide businesses with technology and services that make it easy to create direct conversations with their consumers. The 3Ci service portfolio includes SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR as well as full service campaign and compliance management. 3Ci is a Mobile Marketing Association and CTIA Member and is listed as one of the top Application Service Providers by the Common Short Code Administration.