Network System and Method for facilitating message exchange between mobile
subscribers belonging to the same or different public land mobile
networks, possibly incorporating different standards. Message exchange
between two subscribers of the same or different networks may involve one
or more lookups on subscription data, zero or more message
transformations, one or more routing decisions including application of
costing functions, and, storage and propagation of the message in one or
more Core or Intermediary networks. The messages may be of type, among
others, SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), or
EMAIL.