The Clickatell ZA Blog
September 23, 2010
More About Clickatell’s Bulk SMS Pricing and Coverage…
Credit routes, price per message and credit cost – what do they mean and how will they help you calculate your bulk SMS costs?
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2010
Implementing Bulk SMS in the Travel Industry with Database Triggers
Database triggers make light work of bulk SMS messaging in the travel and hospitality industry.
Read MoreBack in our previous post on SMS gateways, we provided you with a short introduction to the gateway itself and the various API’s that you can employ to make it work for you.
According to the South African Advertising Research Foundation (SAARF), 69.8% of all South Africans have access to mobile phones. Only 23.8% have access to a computer.
An effective, but lesser-known SMS feature available for two-way mobile messaging, is ‘tagged numbers’.
South Africa mobile application developers should take advantage of SMS Gateways when looking to SMS-enable their clients’ sites, systems or applications.
International SMS has changed the face of business communication forever, enabling local South African businesses to easily and affordably extend their market reach into global markets, regardless of their size or marketing budget.
The time has come for bulk SMS to take its place as the new mass communication medium of choice.
Simple mail transfer protocol or SMTP was developed in the 1970s to facilitate the exchange of email messages; today SMS gateway SMTP APIs enable email messages to be converted into SMS messages and sent to a mobile handset.
Chances are that as a South African consumer you have received an SMTP SMS notification alert at some point in the last few years.
With over 20 million South Africans (approximately 68% of our adult population) using cellphones, bulk SMS is a fantastic tool for any business or organisation to expand their reach.
Bulk SMS played an important role in the recent South African ‘Fly the Flag for Football’ mobile campaign.
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