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Fontera livens up the international airwaves

Fontera, a local mobile product development company and successful participant in the UUNET Bandwidth Barn Incubator project, has recently signed a licensing agreement with US based Advanced Telecom Services. The licensing agreement allows the Philadelphia based company to distribute RadioTXT throughout North America, including the USA and Canada.

“The Bandwidth Barn and CITi have been instrumental in our development and growth. We are very proud of the fact that our solution is designed, developed, built and managed from South Africa,” says Simon Leps, Marketing Director at Fontera.

RadioTXT is utilised by a number of leading radio stations in South Africa and allows broadcasters to build a database of listeners while offering value added services such as competition, vote, dedication, comment, eye-witness traffic and breaking news lines. The technology is entirely locally developed - with Fontera’s development team working from the UUNET Bandwidth Barn - and is fully customisable and scalable. Particularly relevant to this agreement was the fact that RadioTXT can be used on GSM, CDMA and TDMA cellular networks - making it suitable for the global marketplace. Further, Fontera's in-studio text messaging system can be integrated with a variety of platforms; including interactive voice response (IVR), e-mail, the Internet and Instant Messaging (IM).

“As the States does not have a strong GSM tradition or background, RadioTXT is set to be groundbreaking within the US market. It is the first of its kind in the region and will provide many radio stations and listeners with SMS features and functionality for the first time,” he concludes.