announced the availability of its Mobile IM Solution on the T-Mobile UK and T-Mobile Germany networks, providing millions of subscribers with easy access to popular Instant Messaging services on their mobile devices. A key milestone for the European market, the simultaneous, multi-country, multi-portal deployment provides T-Mobile customers with the ability to stay in touch with friends from four leading portal communities including AOL®, ICQ®, Windows Live Messenger® and Yahoo!®.

The OZ Mobile IM solution provides consumers with a simple sign up process and an enjoyable, intuitive user experience that is specifically designed to meet the needs of both the novice and power user. The flexible solution allows subscribers to configure a personalized messaging experience on their mobile phone, enabling them to stay connected to friends in multiple portal communities anytime and anywhere.

“OZ has worked very closely with us to successfully deploy our new UK and German Mobile IM service meeting challenging time to market requirements,” said Matthias Schröter, Senior Vice President Mobile Messaging and Data Services, T-Mobile International AG. “They worked diligently to ensure that the service is fully integrated with our existing billing and user authentication infrastructure and provides our subscribers with a streamlined and compelling user experience.”

“OZ mobile instant messaging offers users an intuitive user experience and access to all their favorite IM communities while providing our operators partners such as T-Mobile, with a high growth revenue-generating service,” said Jim Knapik, president and CEO at OZ. “With customized branding, open standards support and high system reliability, the OZ Mobile IM solution delivers industry leading features that drive subscriber loyalty.”

About OZ

OZ empowers consumers to stay connected with the most popular messaging and Internet services, including IM, email and online communities, through their mobile phones.

Leading companies that are Powered by Zinfandel™ include: 3 Scandinavia, Alcatel Lucent, Alltel, AOL®, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, AT&T, Dobson, HTC, ICQ, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Orange France Telecom, Palm, Pantech & Curitel, Rogers Wireless, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Sprint Nextel, TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones, TDC, Telefónica Móviles España, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telus Mobility, T-Mobile USA®,T-Mobile International, UTStarcomm, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA and Yahoo!®.

OZ is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with regional offices in the United States, Europe and India.

Information Source:    Business Wire