TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has announced that the company expects its customers' platforms to deliver a record number of text messages this New Year's Eve across its globally deployed Short Message Service Centers (SMSCs). Based on previous years' statistics and the threefold increase in deployed platforms in 2008 compared to 2007, TCS anticipates peak text messaging volume on New Year's Eve to be more than 80 percent greater than any peak seen in 2008, and four times greater than last year's New Year's Eve spike. TCS technology has already delivered a record 130 billion text messages during the first three quarters of 2008 and is on track to deliver close to 200 billion messages for the year, more than doubling the volume of 2007. TCS technology was responsible for approximately 25 percent of the CTIA-reported total U.S. 363 billion messages sent in 2007.

To support peak messaging activity, such as New Year's Eve and popular televoting events, TCS' next generation smsExpress (http://www.telecomsys.com/downloads/carriers/pdf/brochure_smsExpress.pdf) solution provides carriers with high capacity performance via an optimized first delivery attempt. TCS' smsExpress provides intelligent SMS routing for traffic bursts that generate high text message volume over a short period of time.

"TCS looks forward to seamlessly supporting the explosive burst in messaging traffic this holiday season," said Drew Morin, TCS Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President. "Text messaging has become an important and cost-effective communications method, which can be reliably delivered even when a voice call would run into congestion. In 2009, we will continue to support wireless operators with additional innovative messaging services to strategically position their opportunity for growth in SMS revenues."

TCS customers typically see a 10-20 percent spike in messaging traffic on peak event days such as the Super Bowl, Mothers Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. TCS expects that the upcoming historical Presidential inauguration will similarly generate a significant spike in traffic, more so than any other in the past.