Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has announced a deal with Skype, to provide SMS delivery for their 171 million users.

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TynTec's deep-level access to the global mobile telecoms infrastructure (SS7) will support Skype SMS, a feature that lets Skype users to send SMS messages directly from their computers to mobile phones anywhere in the world.

"By offering single-point access to the worldwide mobile telecoms network we are helping Skype to deliver messages on a worldwide scale, opening up the potential for new revenue streams," said TynTec's CEO Michael Kowalzik.

TynTec says that it guarantees that Skype users' SMS messages are delivered within 15 seconds, maintaining the near-real-time level of communications that Skype users expect.