Sparkle, the international services arm of the Telecom Italia group, and Vodafone have announced an agreement to directly connect their respective SMS messaging hubs to enhance the quality of service for end users of person to person (P2P) and application to person (A2P) messaging. Under the terms of the deal, Vodafone will offer P2P and A2P SMS termination towards all its respective units, while Sparkle will provide P2P SMS termination towards TIM Italy, TIM Brasil, Telecom Personal Argentina as well as termination for A2P SMS services to all mobile operators directly connected to Sparkle.