Smith Micro Announces Entry into a Marketing Engagement Agreement with Competitive Carriers Association for SafePath Global™
August 06 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI) announced that it has
signed a marketing engagement agreement with Competitive Carriers
Association (CCA). Smith Micro and CCA will partner to market Smith
Micro’s SafePath Global™ family safety solution to CCA’s carrier
members under a single branded application. This partnership will
enable CCA carrier members of any size to offer this valuable
solution to their subscribers under the rapid go-to-market model
that SafePath Global supports. The app will be distributed via
Google Play and the Apple App Store.
“I am very pleased to announce our new partnership with CCA to
offer our industry leading family safety application, SafePath®, to
a wide array of carrier members,” said William W. Smith, Jr.,
president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Smith Micro. “We
continue to expand our addressable markets, while building on our
strong relationship with carriers around the world. SafePath
Global™ allows us to significantly accelerate the delivery and
launch of the app to the market, thus delivering revenue faster,
while helping families navigate safely the physical and online
worlds we live in today.”
“I am very glad to partner with Smith Micro, a new CCA member,
to bring their innovative SafePath technology to CCA members,” said
Tim Donovan, President & CEO, CCA. “CCA carriers care deeply
about the safety of their customers, and solutions like these can
bring additional value to the many services network operators
provide.”
SafePath Global allows carriers of all sizes to offer the
features of the SafePath app easily to their subscriber base
enabling consumers to obtain a family safety solution from their
wireless provider that they know and trust.
About SafePath®
The SafePath platform 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 SafePath Global
are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software,
Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of
their respective owners.
About CCA
Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) is the leading
association for competitive telecom providers and stakeholders
across the United States. Members range from small, rural carriers
serving fewer than 5,000 customers to regional and nationwide
providers serving millions of customers, as well as vendors and
suppliers that provide products and services throughout the
communications ecosystem.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
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
and to their end users, and statements using such words as
“expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “plan,” “intend,” “could,”
“will” and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements. Among the important factors that could
cause or contribute to such differences are unanticipated delays or
obstacles in our development and release cycles, the degree to
which competing business needs may affect our allocation of
resources to planned projects, the degree to which our customers
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, 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 effectively with
other software and technology companies. These and other factors
discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including our filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking
statements contained in this release are made on the basis of the
views and assumptions of management, and we do not undertake any
obligation to update these statements to reflect events or
circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
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