Boost Mobile announced a new text messaging service allowing their mobile users the ability to text message landline phones. The “Text to Landline” service is made possible by TeleMessage Inc.  Boost Mobile users just have to enter the landline phone number in the text message area and the message will then be sent to the number.

Along the way, the text message gets converted into a voice message and is then delivered to the recipient. The new service can inform Boost Mobile users as to whether the message was delivered to a live user or to a voice mail system. Landline users who receive these voice messages have the option of returning a text message or returning a voice message back to the mobile user.

Boost Mobile customers pay a standard text message fee of 10 cents per outbound message for the “Text to Landline” service. Incoming text messages are free.

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Boost Mobile Customers Can Now Send Text Messages to Landline Phones

IRVINE, Calif. –(Business Wire)– Oct. 18, 2006 Why shouldn’t young mobile phone text messaging fanatics be able to send messages to their friends at home too? Boost Mobile(R) customers now can with a “Text to Landline” service provided by TeleMessage Inc. This new service enables Boost customers to compose text messages addressed and delivered to landline phones throughout the U.S. and Canada.

There are over 175 million landlines in the U.S., according to the Federal Communications Commission’s 2005 biannual report. Text to Landline allows for today’s youth to expand their network without changing their communication habits.

“This has become a very popular way for young text message users to communicate with all those people that do not currently text message,” said Mark Carlin, vice president of sales, TeleMessage Inc. “All they have to do is put the landline number in the ‘To’ field and press send. The message is converted to a voice message and delivered to the landline phone. The sender even gets a text message back telling them the status of the message, whether it was delivered to a live person or just to a voicemail system. It will even tell them if they made a mistake and sent it to a bad number or a fax machine.”

The landline recipient of the message can send a voice or selected text message reply, which the original sender can retrieve through a text message alert. When a Text to Landline call is answered, the recipient can listen to the message, which includes the wireless phone number of the message sender. If the recipient has Caller ID display service, the wireless phone number of the message sender will appear.

“Boost Mobile continues to enhance its text messaging offering with the launch of this new service,” said Neil Lindsay, vice president of product development, Boost Mobile. “Text to Landline is very simple for our customers to use and allows them to communicate using a method they prefer.”

Boost Mobile customers pay standard text message rates of 10 cents per outgoing message for Text to Landline and incoming text messages are free.

About TeleMessage

TeleMessage, a fully owned subsidiary of AIM-traded Messaging International Plc (AIM: MES.LN), provides cross-platform media messaging management systems and applications. These are designed to enable PC, browser, mobile phone and wireline telephone users to send, receive and manage voice messages, email, text, MMS and IM across various media platforms. It supports multiple languages, text to speech conversion, e-mail notification, unlimited text length, and direct reply to text capabilities, all illustrating the uniqueness of the service. For more information, please visit http://www.telemessage.com.

About Boost Mobile

Based in Irvine, California, Boost Mobile, LLC, a division of Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S), is a lifestyle-based telecommunications brand focused on offering premium Pay-As-You-Go wireless phones and services to the youth market. Boost is among the fastest growing wireless services in the U.S. and now has more than 3.6 million customers – the majority of which are under the age of 25. Boost-branded wireless phones with its exclusive BoostTM Walkie-Talkie service and Re-Boost(R) Cards are available nationwide at locations where youth prefer to shop, including national retailers and convenience stores, and merchants that focus on fashion, music, and action sports-related activities. Experience Boost on the Web at http://www.boostmobile.com.

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