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GlobeX Data integrates SekurMessenger with Latin America’s biggest telecom player America Movil

Published: 08:28 24 Nov 2020 EST

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Once sales in Mexico take off, there are plans to expand coverage to other countries where América Móvil operates through its Claro brand, such as Colombia and other Latin American countries

GlobeX Data Ltd (OTCQB:SWISF) (CSE:SWIS), the cyber security and privacy solutions provider, said on Tuesday that it has achieved the technical integration of SekurMessenger, its encrypted messaging and file transfer application with Telcel, telecom heavyweight América Móvil SAB’s Mexico mobile division. 

On October 13, GlobeX had revealed that América Móvil, Latin America’s biggest wireless operator by subscribers, would integrate Sekur's encrypted messaging application. “The next step for GlobeX is to complete onboarding integration and perform minor graphical adjustments in order to complete full integration of SekurMessenger with Telcel for sales to start in Mexico,” said the company. Telcel will kick off sales by the first quarter of 2021.

The Toronto-based tech company said SekurMessenger will be sold by Telcel in Mexico for 99 Mexican pesos per user, per month. Once sales in Mexico are underway, there are plans to increase coverage to other countries where América Móvil operates through its Claro brand, such as Colombia and other Latin American countries. GlobeX Data and América Móvil are looking at offering a secure and private alternative to other non-secure messaging applications. 

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América Móvil is the seventh-largest global telecom operator with over 277 million mobile subscribers in 20 countries in Latin America and Europe.

One of the many security features of SekurMessenger is that users don’t register for the service using their phone numbers, eliminating a huge loophole in security and privacy. It also does not social engineer a user’s phone or computer contact list — this poses the risk of infecting the contacts by default. SekurMessenger issues each user a username and a SM number. The SM number is the contact ID a user would disclose for other SM users to be added.

The service comes with a self-destruct timer and other features as well, such as GlobeX’s proprietary VirtualVaults and HeliX technologies with all the data stored in Swiss-hosted encrypted servers.

"We are thrilled to have completed the main part of the integration of our SekurMessenger encrypted messaging solution into América Móvil’s core service offerings. Telcel, America Movil’s Mexico mobile operator, has over 75 million users in Mexico and over 5 million of them are business users,” said GlobeX Data CEO Alain Ghiai.

“The idea here is to offer corporate and privacy-conscious consumers an alternative to non-secure messaging applications that are in the market. There is an existing demand and we are looking forward to starting sales in Q1 2021.”

Ghiai said that enterprises and government organizations needed to guard against email cyber-attacks, and identity and data theft.

“Our strength in using proprietary technology, Swiss privacy laws and no third-party platform such as AWS, MS cloud or Google cloud, puts us in a unique position to provide true privacy and security,” added Ghiai.  

GlobeX’s data privacy solutions are all hosted in Switzerland, protecting users’ data from any outside data intrusion requests. 

Contact the author Uttara Choudhury at uttara@proactiveinvestors.com

Follow her on Twitter: @UttaraProactive

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