Post Online - CDL launches SMS aggregator

Post Online - CDL launches SMS aggregator: "CDL launches SMS aggregator
Insurance software house, CDL, has launched the UK’s first SMS aggregator service, via TEXTCHECK, the mobile phone based vehicle health check service launched by CDL and Onesoon last year.
Motorists using the TEXTCHECK service to validate a vehicle’s history will now be offered the option of receiving a quote to insure the vehicle. The service then aggregates quotes from CDL’s broking community, texting details of the cheapest, along with a quote reference number and contact details back to the consumer’s mobile phone.
Commenting on the new service, Nigel Phillips, business strategist at CDL said that the service had generated 60 quotes in its first week and this is expected to increase as TEXTCHECK embarks on a TV advertising campaign throughout March.
Mr Phillips said: “Our acquisition of The Vehicle Inspection Company, and the licence this gave us to access DVLA data, as well as our partnership with Onesoon to launch the TEXTCHECK service has opened up a number of exciting opportunities to offer consumer targeted services. The SMS aggregator service also provides an additional route to market for the CDL broking community and we expect to increase the number of brokers signed up to provide quotes throughout 2007.”
TEXTCHECK is a unique vehicle history check service which uses text messaging to protect second hand vehicle shoppers in the UK avoid the misery of being mis-sold a used car, motor bike or van. TEXTCHECK gives potential buyers instant access to authentic DVLA and police information, as well as serious damage and written-off data from British insurers. The SMS aggregation and vehicle health check service can be white labelled to other aggregators or insurers. "