Mobile Tornado PLC is a company that specialises in providing platforms and applications in the mobile data services market including presence-based messaging, push to talk

Push to talk

Push-to-talk , also known as Press-to-Transmit, is a method of conversing on half-duplex communication lines, including two-way radio, using a momentary button to switch from voice reception mode to transmit mode....

, push to video and related services.

History

Mobile Tornado was established in 1999 by Eyal Fishler and later on joined by Jorge Pinievsky who became the CEO. Mobile Tornado has been focusing on building converge

Convergence (telecommunications)

Telecommunications convergence, network convergence or simply convergence are broad terms used to describe emerging telecommunications technologies, and network architecture used to migrate multiple communications services into a single network...

d Voice and Data applications for network operators.

In the year 2000 Mobile Tornado Started the development of Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC), starting with trials using cellular digital packet data

Cellular digital packet data

Cellular Digital Packet Data was a wide-area mobile data service which used unused bandwidth normally used by AMPS mobile phones between 800 and 900 MHz to transfer data. Speeds up to 19.2 kbit/s were possible...

 and later migrating to Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 in 2001, CDMA and EVDO in 2002 and GPRS, EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

 and UMTS in 2003.

Since then Mobile Tornado has signed several strategic business partnerships and has been selling mainly to 2nd and 3rd tier operators around the world.

Mobile Tornado became a public company, registered at the Alternative Investment Market

Alternative Investment Market

AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....

 (Mobile Tornado PLC) in the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

after a reverse merger with TMT PLC. Mobile tornado owns several patents in this industry.