Gabon to Seek Tenders for 3G Mobile Phone Service (Update1)
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Gabon will seek tenders to provide third-generation mobile phone services in the country, Communications Minister Laure Olga Gondjout said today.
Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Service’
DotMobi Offers GoMobi Mobile Domain Tools
Monday, June 21st, 2010
New service offering for mobile websites aims to simplify the process of setting them up.
TxT2Look Mobile
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Halifax, N.S.-based TxT2Look Inc. has signed an exclusive license deal for Ontario to offer its SMS real estate and mobile marketing services and products to the 44,000 Ontario Real Estate agents. TxT2Look’s technology and mobile marketing service, available 24/7, responds automatically to requests for detailed property information from potential buyers. The agent simply adds a sign rider with a property identification code and a short code to their For Sale sign. Cell phone users sends text
Should we be Building SMS or Internet Services for Africa?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Probably one of my favorite discussions of this trip was entered into after the Uganda Linux User Group (LUG) meeting here in Kampala. It was about whether we should be providing internet protocol (IP) services first, rather than SMS. If cost is the single most important factor for any mobile service aimed at ordinary Africans, then what will it take to move the ball from the SMS court to the IP court? This isn’t just for non-profits to consider, but everyday businesses as well. Phones th
What is SMS? Short Codes? Keywords?
Friday, July 24th, 2009
What are those terms? What do they mean? With Mobile Marketing becoming more mainstream I thought it might be a good idea to define some of the basic terms used in the mobile marketing industry. SMS (Short Message Service) - A standard for telephony messaging systems that allow sending messages between mobile devices that consist of short messages, normally with text only content. (Text Message) Common Shortcode (Shortcode) - Short numeric numbers (typically 4-6 digits) to which text m
