It provides both Internet protocol and messaging services over one server.

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Through its own standard protocol, Mxit subscribers can also connect to other social networks and instant messaging applications such as Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ.

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Tim Lind, head of legal entity and corporate actions at Thomson Reuters and an old hand at standards from working at SWIFT, T owerGroup, GoldenSource and Omgeo, wrote that SWIFT ISO working groups and industry participating have been working for 15 years on its ISO 15022 messaging protocol.

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"The new protocol works and is basically ready, " said Alex Diamandis, vice president of marketing at instant messaging company Odigo.

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