3 Hong Kong chooses Miyowa for its mobile instant messaging service

by: Bena Roberts Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Rating: give me an M, give me an I, Y, O, W, A. Miyowa!

Another day another Miyowa announcement. Impressed? Actually yes.

3 Hong Kong has chosen Miyowa for its mobile instant messaging service. This makes 3 Hong Kong the third Asian mobile operator that has signed up for Miyowa services after Starhub (Singapore) and Fareastone (Taiwan).

3 is using Miyowa’s services to offer Windows Live Messenger on i-mode. Miyowa will provide 3 Hong Kong with a turnkey solution including billing connectivity, UI and client.

From the press release:
“Miyowa has proven track record in delivering superb universal mobile instant messaging solution in Asia. Leveraging the strong and reliable local support of Miyowa, we have achieved a fast and robust roll-out of Windows Live Messenger service for our i-mode customers.” said Amy Lung, Chief Operating Officer – Mobile of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong.

“We are very honoured to be chosen by such an innovative and global operator. One month after the official establishment of Miyowa’s permanent office in Asia, the successful launch of the service at 3 Hong Kong reaffirms Miyowa’s commitment to this strategic region of the world.” said Pascal Lorne, CEO of Miyowa.

What we think
When I first interviewed Pascal Lorne he told me of his world wide travels with his backpack. He basically travelled the world with his mobile device trying to find out which services worked and what worked for the best communication experience. At the time I sniggered, passing off Pascal as an old hippy. However, I was wrong. In the past few month Miyowa has gone from strength to strength and fast deployment by mobile operators indicates that the market was desperate for an IM Java client that enables IM interoperability.

Well done.

More on Miyowa:

http://pushingthebarrier.typepad.com/pushing_the_barrier/2007/06/miyowabouygues_.html
http://pushingthebarrier.typepad.com/pushing_the_barrier/2007/05/miyowa_adds_mob.html