Year of establishment : 2002-03 Nature of company : Privately held, 2 directors Area of operations : Cellular phone software and services Products from Teleshoppe: High end solutions:- A modular platform that provides extended features to Telecom Operators in the area of missed call capture, roaming service management and inter-carrier messaging based on the power of SS7 to deliver ARPU enhancing Value Added Services Mobile Internet solutions - A convergent platform for operators to give them the ability to mobile enable any application used by their subscribers VAS Solutions : Dial-a-Flower, Dial-a-Gift, Dial-a-movie ticket, Dial-a-pizza and similar services by cellular operators are handled by Teleshoppe’s voice-based applications suite SMS Applications: SMS is effective when used to provide commercial services. Among the most common services offered are newsflashes, sports, travel advisories and information like flight timings and status, and many more. SMS has the unique advantage of being the only media available to notify users of events, till WAP push gets deployed SMS Applications can be built by interfacing them to an SMSC, which is the central component in an SMS network. However there are many SMSCs and each vendor's SMSC supports its own protocol. Standard protocols are not widely used and application complexity increases due to these diverse protocols platforms and environments SV Mobile Teleshoppe’s SMS Gateway hides these complexities by translating SMSC specific protocols into industry standard HTTP format. The use of web-based environment for SMS applications also means that most standard HTML web-applications can be adapted easily to start providing services over SMS