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Additionally, Jangl is adding options that let consumers of all ages stay safe, save money, and easily connect their online networks to their phones.
Together with its current service, today's launch means that Jangl customers can now:
- Be private: By talking, exchanging voicemails, and now swapping text messages -- on any phone or personal computer -- without ever sharing their private phone number;
- Save money: By eliminating some text messaging fees and drastically reducing most long distance calling charges, and;
- Stay connected: With anyone, anywhere, with or without your phone, easily adding friends to your Jangl network and choosing when and how they can connect with you.
In offering its new text message-enabled service, Jangl taps a huge market. According to leading technology analyst firm Gartner, about 936 billion SMS messages were sent worldwide in 2005, and that number will approach 2.3 trillion in 2010.1 Nearly all new mobile phones available today are SMS-enabled, according to CTIA.2
The addition of SMS capability reaffirms Jangl as the leader in bridging the web and the phone by broadening the company’s offering beyond voice and voicemail, and -- when combined with other features recently released -- strengthens Jangl’s value proposition for mobile consumers with active lifestyles on the social web. Jangl's technology already connects 40+ million online profiles with mobile devices due to its customized, in-context service integrations with some of the web's top social networking and online personals sites.
"Jangl's contextual utility in social networks has been enhanced significantly in this latest service release," said Michael Cerda, CEO and co-founder of Jangl, Inc. "For several months, our loyal customers have been asking us to develop a text solution that would enable them to stop toggling keyboards and text quickly and efficiently with all of their online friends, while, at the same time, continuing to deliver on the most popular customer benefits of Jangl services – cost savings, privacy and safety. With today's debut, we connect a more diverse group of people and, in turn, dramatically expand our partner offerings and our revenue potential. In the near-future, we’ll detail how Jangl will work with brand marketers to let millions enjoy all of these features and functionality at little or no cost to the end-user."
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