Smith Micro Announces New SafePath OS™ Solution Expanding its Focus on Family Safety
February 22 2024 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
New Software-Based Solution Will Provide Mobile
Network Operators with a Robust Option for a Safer Kids Phone
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI) today introduced
SafePath OS™, a new family safety solution to be built on the
Android operating system, which focuses on digital safety for
children and families while providing mobile network operators
(MNOs) another way to offer a kids phone to their subscribers. The
solution is expected to be available in the second half of this
year and will serve as another means for MNOs to support their
family subscribers in the rapidly changing and increasingly
dangerous digital and physical world. Smith Micro will work with
MNOs to package and promote a kids phone with Smith Micro’s
powerful flagship SafePath® digital family safety software
preinstalled and configured on one or more devices selected by the
MNO.
A software-only solution, SafePath OS will expand Smith Micro’s
reach from a subscription app-only solution to enabling MNOs to
offer devices powered by SafePath OS. SafePath OS will provide an
option for MNOs to market and promote a safe and secure kids device
pre-loaded with the SafePath OS and position MNOs to more fully
compete with over-the-top family safety solutions. Most
importantly, the selected device will come out of the box ready to
use with pre-determined parental control settings, an always active
VPN, and evasion protection so that SafePath cannot be bypassed or
evaded.
“Rapid technological change in both our digital and physical
worlds has certainly enabled productivity and connection, but has
also opened pathways to dangers and threats, often aimed at
children,” said William W. Smith, Jr., president, CEO, and chairman
of the board of Smith Micro. “We are designing SafePath OS to
provide MNOs a way to assuage the anxiety often felt by parents and
guardians when their child gets their first phone, making it a
smooth transition that is fully wrapped with the powerful
safeguards provided by SafePath to protect them from both digital
and physical hazards.”
SafePath OS will be offered through MNOs in North America and
Europe and will be an off-the-shelf solution that works immediately
with pre-configured and pre-installed defaults that do not require
pairing with a parent app, but once paired with the parent app will
offer even more safety controls and features.
“This is an exciting next step in expanding how our SafePath
solution makes its way into consumers’ hands.” Smith continued,
“SafePath OS will offer our MNO partners a way to differentiate
themselves from other family safety competitors and to demonstrate
their commitment to their subscribers’ well-being and safety by
giving parents peace of mind while providing a safer way for kids
to enjoy the freedom of getting that first phone.”
About SafePath®
The SafePath platform, currently comprised of SafePath Family™,
SafePath IoT™, SafePath Home™, SafePath Drive™, SafePath Premium™,
SafePath OS™ and SafePath Global™ provides comprehensive and
easy-to-use tools to protect digital lifestyles and manage
connected devices through a single app. As a carrier-grade,
white-label solution, SafePath empowers wireless service providers
and cable operators to bring to market full-featured, on-brand
family safety solutions that provide in-demand services such as
location, parental controls, screen time management and driver
monitoring to mobile subscribers. Delivered to end users as
value-added services, SafePath-based solutions activate new revenue
opportunities for service providers while helping to increase brand
affinity and reduce subscriber churn. Learn more at
smithmicro.com/safepath.
About Smith Micro Software, Inc.
Smith Micro develops software to simplify and enhance the mobile
experience, providing solutions to some of the leading wireless
service providers around the world. From enabling the family
digital lifestyle to providing powerful voice messaging
capabilities, Smith Micro’s solutions enrich today’s connected
lifestyles while creating new opportunities to engage consumers via
smartphones and consumer IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The
Smith Micro portfolio also includes a wide range of products for
creating, sharing, and monetizing rich content, such as visual
voice messaging, optimizing retail content display and performing
analytics on any product set. For more information, visit
www.smithmicro.com.
Smith Micro, the Smith Micro logo, SafePath and Digital Family
Lifestyle are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro
Software, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the
property of their respective owners.
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statements regarding future events or results within the meaning of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, including statements
related to the future availability and launch release of Smith
Micro’s products and services and/or enhancements and updates to
our products and services by our customers, other projections of
outlook or performance and future business plans, and the benefits
that Smith Micro believes our solutions will offer to our customers
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which competing business needs may affect our allocation of
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adopt, offer and promote our products and services and our planned
enhancements and updates thereto or the degree to which their end
users adopt our products and services and our planned enhancements
and updates thereto in the time period that we expect or at all,
our reliance on third party operating systems for the proper
operation and delivery of our solutions and any barriers to our use
of such third party technology, our reliance on third party
application stores for the distribution of our software
applications and any barriers to such distribution, including any
delay or failure of such third party to approve new versions of our
applications or their implementation and/or application of policies
that may be harmful to our business, our ability to attract and
retain key technical personnel that are essential to our product
development efforts, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our
business and financial results, changes in demand for our products
from our customers or their end users, changes in requirements for
our products imposed by our customers or by the third party
providers of software and/or platforms that we use, new and
changing technologies and customer acceptance and timing of
deployment of those technologies, and our ability to compete
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