Germany is currently testing an SMS terrorist warning system to alert specific areas of the community or the entire population. The penetration rate of mobile phones makes SMS ideal for this kind of warning as the alternatives - TV and radio - will...
The Finnish government is considering banning a controversial SMS speed camera alert service. Erkki Pulliainen, an MP and the representative of the Finnish government's traffic committee, told the Finnish press: "It is still legal to send an SMS to...
Marketing products to mobile phones using SMS messages has been proven to increase sales, according to a test study carried out in Sweden. Named e-street, the project signed up 2,500 mobile phone-users in the town of Lulea to receive SMS messages...
Companies operating in the European Union may have to obtain the consent of mobile phone users before sending commercial messages via SMS, following a landmark ruling in Brussels last week. At the moment, there are no restrictions on the use of SMS...
Before we introduced the dating service, users were sending an average of three value-added SMS messages a month," said Rohit Bhatia, AirTel's head of value-added services. He said this SMS hike translates to about US$0.70 in additional data...
European mobile operators should brace themselves for enforced price cuts for SMS roaming, predicts an analyst. Angela Stainthorpe, research analyst and author of the report Global Mobile Roaming: Operator Strategies and Market Trends, said in a...