Thursday, April 5, 2007

Clickatell Leads Charge for Global SMS Capability

Source : home.businesswire.com
Widest Two-Way Messaging Demonstrated at CTIA
CTIA Wireless 2007
Booth #4668
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clickatell Inc., the world’s #1 global mobile messaging operator, today announced its customers can receive reply SMSs using its popular Communicator application. Visitors to CTIA Wireless in Orlando from 27 – 29 March will be able to see demonstrations of the service at Clickatell’s booth # 4668.
With strong coverage in the North American market, the two-way, or reply SMS, functionality is available on a record breaking 400+ networks worldwide.
This launch of two-way text functionality allows Clickatell customers to receive replies to the local and international SMSs they have sent, straight to their Communicator inbox. This powerful functionality allows businesses and consumers to engage in a dialogue or launch a response-centric alert program.
Clickatell is seeing a massive adoption of messaging in small, medium and large enterprises as they increasingly acknowledge the importance of targeted, real-time customer communication and interaction. This new functionality allows more effective communication for anyone from a teacher arranging football practice, to a business sending account status updates to its customers, to governments looking for input from its citizens.
Clickatell Communicator (http://communicator.clickatell.com/) is the easy to use, cost-effective web-based bulk SMS application offered by the global messaging company. Customers access a web interface that resembles an online email browser and with the click of a button are able to send SMS messages to as many as 1,000 recipients. Mobile numbers can be easily uploaded to the address book, and once customers have bought messaging credits, they can start sending and receiving their texts on their computer.
The software interfaces with the carrier-grade Clickatell messaging gateway, which offers text and multimodal messaging on over 600 networks around the world. Clickatell currently has business and consumer customers around the world using the free Communicator application.
About Clickatell, Inc.
Clickatell is the premier global mobile messaging operator with over 8,000 customers across 600 networks spanning almost 200 countries. Two-way messaging is available on more than 400 networks. Clickatell's messaging gateways connect directly and securely with the infrastructure of carriers worldwide. This enables Clickatell to guarantee delivery and receipt of massive quantities of inbound and outbound messages in real-time to any device, i.e. cell phone, smart phone, landline, fax, pager, PC or any IP-connected device. Clickatell's enterprise-grade Multimode Messaging Manager is built on open architecture and standards allowing today's devices to connect transparently across multiple channels. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, the company has offices in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
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Free SMS

Source : geekzone.co.nz
For mobile phone users who also use the web each day, the CallWave Free Text Messaging gadget (also known as a widget) delivers invaluable ease and efficiency – making the PC a natural companion to the mobile phone. It allows users to send text messages to virtually anyone, anywhere, right from their desktop – whether their handset is nearby or not. During the beta, subscribers can send unlimited text messages from the United States and Canada. The Google Desktop enables consumers to create their own personal homepage on Google. Gadgets can be added from the “add stuff” link. The CallWave Free Text Messaging gadget can be found in the “Communication” section or by simply typing in “CallWave” in the search field. With the gadget running on the Google Desktop, users can view a list of contacts and select who to text.Replies to the message can be routed to either the subscriber’s handset or email, depending on their personal settings. Subscribers will eventually be given access to their messages stored in a permanent, searchable archive, accessible from a personal web page.
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Information Communication Technology

Source : thisdayonline.com
The recently launched unity tariff by the pan African mobile operator, Celtel Nigeria, aptly christened “Simply Series” have continue to generate excitement amongst the generality of Nigerians. The excitement emanates from the fact that the unity tariff for the first time ever in the history of telecommunications in Nigeria, Celtel is offering one price to all networks. The Simply Series comes in three different plans; Simply Special, Simply Smooth and Simply Smart which eliminate complexity by offering consumers affordability, simplicity and greater transparency when choosing plans. The Simply Special targets the youth and average consumers looking for a simple tariff with affordable prices and maximum benefits. Call from subscribers on simply special plan during peak period attracts tariff of 66 kobo per second and 39 kobo per second off peak no matter the network that the call is terminating. Every subscriber is also entitled to 15 free SMS every month, while the price of SMS has dropped from N15 to N9. Simply Smooth is targeted at professionals, business people and high volume users desiring affordable prices while complexity and price discrimination between networks. This plan attracts N400 monthly access fee, while call attracts 59 kobo and 33 kobo on peak and off peak respectively. It also attracts 15 free SMS monthly and subsequent SMS is charged N9 each. The Simply Smart is designed for small and medium scale enterprises, very high volume users and business people looking for increase in convenience while controlling phone costs. The plan attracts N3,600 monthly fee with calls at peak period charged at 61 kobo per second and 33 kobo off peak. Users of this plan are entitled to 100 free minutes every month and 30 free SMS monthly also, with subsequent SMS charged at N9 each. Celtel also announced new international call rates, which cuts prices by 45% and reduces calling costs to as low as 55K per second for popular destinations like UK, US, UAE, amongst others. Cross sections of Nigerians have been reacting to this new tariff plan introduced by Celtel. Bola Adebayo, a banker, commended Celtel for this new innovation; she said “I was not totally surprised that this is coming from Celtel. The network has a rich history of firsts in introducing innovations and products that is targeted at making life better for Nigerians even from its days as ECONET.” Also commenting, Ben George, a 300 level student of Lagos State University, said he believed that Celtel must be thinking of student when they were developing this plans, because it will save us a lot of stress of carrying more than one phone in a bid to enjoy tariff slash which is always for calls within the same network, “Celtel has broken that barrier as I Can now enjoy same tariff no matter the network I am calling and the free 15 SMS and N9 per SMS is something to cherish. Several other consumers express same sentiment and encourage Celtel to continue to shun out innovations that will completely revolutionalise the industry to the ultimate advantage of the consumers.
Commenting on the new development, the Chief Executive Officer of Celtel Nigeria, Mr. Bayo Ligali, said “The FLAT tariff plans are the first ever in Nigeria, and are innovatively designed to deliver on our promise of making life better. Today, the Nigerian consumer has to choose from a multitude of pricing plans on other networks. Our new FLAT tariffs eliminate this complexity, by offering customers affordability, simplicity, and greater transparency when choosing plans”. On the new international call rates, the CEO stated, “We have made our international rates more affordable for not just popular overseas destinations like the UK and US, but also for popular African destinations such as South Africa, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, and Benin. Part of the way we make life better, is by ensuring our subscribers enjoy the benefit of Celtel’s presence in over 14 African countries”.
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