KDDI America Has Selected Infobip As Its Cloud Communications Platform for The Delivery of Advanced Business Messaging Services

Partnership Enables Enterprise-Wide Customers Access to Digital Transformative Communications & Rich Media Experiences

NEW YORK, June 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KDDI America, a subsidiary of “KDDI Corporation”, a Fortune Global 500 company with three datacenters in the U.S., announced it has partnered with Infobip, a global cloud communications company that provides messaging solutions for advanced customer engagement, identity authentication and security. As the demands for digital customer experiences expand, KDDI America’s strategy is to enable digital transformation through cloud-based omnichannel communications solutions for enterprise-wide customers.

Omnichannel messaging is creating more mobile-centric engagement opportunities for businesses, and KDDI America/Infobip will serve as the hub of this experience. KDDI America now offers its enterprise business customers a leading SaaS API-based advanced messaging offering that can be fully customized to help businesses reach their customers with marketing through a litany of multimedia messaging channels.

According to Ovum’s Mobile Messaging Traffic and Revenue Forecast: 2017-22¹, global revenues from A2P will exceed revenues from person-to-person (P2P) SMS by 2022, totaling $43 billion. Furthermore, it is estimated there will be approximately 3.5 trillion A2P messages delivered by 2023, a 40% growth rate from 2.5 trillion delivered in 2019². The GSMA estimates the market for RCS will be worth $74 billion by the end of 2021³.

“KDDI America and Infobip are working together to define, develop and deliver experience-driven, media-centric messaging solutions that expedite digital transformation and increase overall customer engagement levels not seen before between brands and their customers,” said Masatoshi Nobuhara, KDDI America’s CEO and President. “KDDI has a legacy of collocation, cloud deployment, peer connectivity, system integration, IOT, and applications that will enable this customer-centric experience through Infobip’s platform.

KDDI America has evolved into a company that provides Networks, Data Centers, System Integration, IOT, Cloud, as well as managed service solutions across industries. KDDI America’s core differentiator in the industry is in this global rich IP network leveraging IoT, cloud and colocation datacenter technology that gives business customers an all-in-one messaging solution combined with Infobip’s global distribution and partnership with leading wireless carriers, messaging apps, banks, social networks, tech companies, and social media networks.