Dobson Communications, which sells mobile services to rural areas in the US, has signed a deal with Verisign to provide mobile content to its customers — including “access to more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games, and community services. In addition, VeriSign will supply Dobson with its short messaging (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) interoperability services, which enable messaging between customers of different carriers”.
“With these new mobile content offerings, Dobson can generate additional revenue from its existing subscriber base while promoting innovative content offerings to aid new subscriber efforts,” said Vernon Irvin, executive vice president, VeriSign Communications Services. “VeriSign provides the licensed
content, the billing and back-end services, allowing Dobson to focus on successfully introducing and marketing these new services to customers.”
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