ZURICH, Switzerland – 8th June 2015 –Myriad Group AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: MYRN) the company creating and connecting communities across mobile, announces that its Twitter SMS service is now live at Vivo, the largest of the Telefonica operators in LATAM with over 97,2 million accesses. This service, powered by Myriad’s SMS social-flow gateway, allows Vivo clients without a Twitter account and using any GSM device, to receive curated notifications. Additionally, Twitter registered users can tweet, retweet, follow and message other Twitter users via SMS.
This announcement follows the recent partnership with Telefonica, through which Myriad Sub Data Division was selected to offer social networking aggregation services to Telefonica’s mobile subscribers across twelve countries in Latin America.
Myriad’s unique ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, including rich access to social networking on feature and basic phones, offers operators a unique opportunity to deliver next-generation services to all mobile users, of which Twitter SMS on Vivo is a good example.
Stephen Dunford, Myriad CEO, said “we are proud to partner with Vivo and Twitter to offer their users a richer and broader social networking experience, irrespective of their device, and therefore empowering Vivo and Twitter to reach the widest possible mobile audience in Brazil.”
Alexandre Fernandes, Director of Innovation and Business Development at SVA said “Twitter SMS allows all our customers to enjoy the best of Twitter in an easier way.”
With nearly 179 million people in Latin America expected to be mobile phone social network users this year, and Brazil leading the way, with 67.4 million people in the country expected to visit social networks from their phones on a monthly basis this year 1, Myriad Group is well positioned to continue to be a leading provider of social networking solutions for mobile operators in Latin America and beyond.