mBill launch first multimedia chat application!

Reverse billed live multimedia chat now available over GPRS!

April 1st, 2003 - mBill and Liquid Air Lab have partnered to deliver the first live multimedia messaging chat application.

It is now possible to charge users for multimedia messages delivered to their handsets via reversed billed SMS.

Emanuel Peters, Director of Business Development for mBill said, "We have seen a significant increase in our premium rate SMS volumes since the launch of this new service."

The multimedia composer and transaction engine made available by Liquid Air Lab, combined with the mBill billing platform, enabled mBill to integrate an existing SMS chat application with a multimedia messaging component.

This new product has delivered a richer and more interactive experience to SMS users. Now, with the ability to view animations and chat with others in real time, it is expected that users will frequently engage in SMS chat which will encourage higher message volumes.

Mikko Linnamäki, CEO of Liquid Air Lab said, "We are very excited about the potential of this new multimedia SMS chat application. We believe it will inspire further growth in the multimedia messaging sector."

The multimedia messaging component will be rolled out to existing clients in the coming months.

mBill expects the release of this product to further stimulate messaging volumes in the premium rate services industry; thereby ensuring high revenues for our clients and further software licensing opportunities.

About mBill

mBill was founded to provide turnkey mobile billing solutions.

We are a rapidly growing mobile services company delivering revenue systems to Internet and mobile service providers in the information and entertainment industries. Our mobile billing environment enables our clients to transact directly with their end users taking advantage of the m-commerce platform. mBill's central business focus is the provisioning of billing and content distribution services that provide near global reach via access to fixed line and wireless networks globally. We facilitate information distribution and related transactional services through multiple delivery mediums these include Premium Rate Numbers, Interactive Voice Response, Short Messaging Services and Premium Rate SMS.

About Liquid Air Lab

Liquid Air Lab is a world-leading developer of carrier-grade solutions for visual MMS messaging on wireless networks.

Our MMS Studio contains all applications that are needed for profitable MMS services: Dynamic MMS Composer, Multimedia Album, Trans-coding Engine, Transaction Engine and XML-based Content Integration Engine.