SMS ME ON provides your new address on 56070

SMSMEON provides you the opportunity to acquire your own “FREE” unique Identity (commonly known as keyword on a short code) on the mobile. This Keyword could be a reflection of your personality or name. It is the first platform in India which allows you to choose and block a “Keyword” of your choice completely free of cost on your mobile.

SMSMEON- as the names says it all “You can SMS ME ON my Keyword which is my own personal address on the mobile to know more about me & be privy to the latest happenings in my life”. You can use SMSMEON either through the web or through your mobile.

Example: – if your name is Aakash then you now have the opportunity to block AAKASH as a keyword on the short code 56070. When someone SMSs the keyword AAKASH to 56070 then he will get the status message that has been set by AAKASH against his keyword. SMSMEON is simple to use and best way to reach out to your people even when you are on the move. Well now you don’t need to post messages in each of your friends’ pages or send a SMS to each one of them. Just update your status message through web or from your mobile, and all your friends seeking you out can get updates on you through mobile by just texting your keyword to 56070.

Priyaa Gupta CEO – SMSMEON.COM says “Just like email is a users identity on the web, SMSMEON.COM is a unique initiative which will for the first time allow both individuals and enterprises to get mobile identities of their choice on the mobile and will allow everyone the flexibility to use this identity for personal or business communication. Potentially this can be very disruptive as it will allow millions of users and thousands of enterprises to use the power of mobility in a personalized manner like they have never experienced before” SMSMEON has been launched by SpotOn Media Pvt. Ltd. (SpotOn), an initiative incubated by ValueFirst Messaging Private Ltd .

About ValueFirst Messaging:

ValueFirst empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes “plug and play” application
licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with Mobile operators and a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging.

Vish Bajaj,CEO of ValueFirst applauded and expressed his confidence in the innovative initiative of SpotOn. According to him, SMSMEON will become an integral part of people’s business card. Apart from the fun element,consumers and businesses will be able to conduct meaningful information exchange with their target audience.

SpotOn Media is a digital media company aggregating opted in SMS inventory and is one of India’s first SMS Ad Network SpotOn via its platform & device independent approach aims to establish itself as a “platform agnostic”digital solutions company specializing in communities and new media advertising.

To know more, simply log onto www.smsmeon.com

Value Added Services (VAS) contributes more in the exponentially growing Indian telecom sector

In the exponentially growing Indian telecom sector, Value Added Services (VAS) contributes over 7% of the total revenue for operators. SMS is the highest contributor to VAS in India. Easy to use, instantaneous and reliable, SMS is widely used by individuals all across the country to communicate. Hence, it comes as no surprise that enterprises have also started incorporating SMS gateway based services to suit varied communication needs.

Enterprises have realized that improving efficiency within the organization requires improving efficiency in their communication systems. Mobile messaging services are enabling enterprises to send emergency alerts and notifications to support various aspects of their business. Be it customer service, marketing, IT or SCM, these solutions have found invaluable applications in the various departments of an enterprise. Organizations are continuously experimenting with how these SMS gateway based services can help improve workflows within their enterprise and also enhance customer experience. The most common use of mobile messaging services is believed to be for promotions.

Distance education program starting mEducation by using SMS Gateway-Bulk sms service

A system and a process that connects learners to distributed learning resources other than attending courses in person, students may communicate at times of their own choosing by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time. Distance education courses that require a physical on-site presence for any reason including the taking of examinations is considered to be a hybrid or blended course or program.

India has a large number of Distance education program in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate levels. The trend was started originally by private institutions that offered distance education at certificate and diploma level. By 1985 many of the larger Universities recognized the need and potential of distance education in a populous country like India and launched degree level programs through distance education. The trend caught up, and today many prestigious Indian Universities offer distance programs. Two such universities are;

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka. About 276 colleges throughout the state are placed under the Rajiv Gandhi University in order to establish uniform standards in academics and administration.

MGR Medical University, Chennai, India deals with all medical and paramedical degrees. Both of these and many private and public, non-profit and for-profit institutions offering courses and degree programs through distance education.

Solution:

After a thorough examination & analysis of the requirements, ValueFirst (a global leader in “Enterprise Mobile Messaging Services”) in collaboration with a technology partner proposed its best-in-class application ValueFirst Velocity. ValueFirst Velocity is an enterprise class SMS suite designed to create, process and transmit SMS in a complex database environment. It provides highly reliable automated mobile messaging platform.
ValueFirst application enabled the universities to send their critical messages on a Just-In-Time (JIT) basis onto the mobile phones of invigilators.
The mobile messaging suite in addition, offers complete automation of various communication processes such as College to Student communication, College to Parent communication etc at these universities.

About ValueFirst:

ValueFirst empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes “plug and play” application licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with Mobile operators and a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging. ValueFirst’s Mobile Messaging Platform is capable of delivering SMS services to virtually any CDMA/GSM mobile handset. ValueFirst combines signalling information from the mobile world with innovative applications running concurrently on its own IT applications platform and thereby pave the way for mission-critical international messaging services.

ValueFirst has launched a nation-wide survey on Enterprise Mobile Messaging – Current Scenario and Future Trends

ValueFirst has launched a nation-wide survey on Enterprise Mobile Messaging – Current Scenario and Future Trends in July 2008. Respondents included senior management from over 120 large & medium enterprise customers of ValueFirst: Below are the Executive Summary and Key Findings of the report.

Enterprise mobile messaging has grown exponentially in India. The current stage of enterprise mobile messaging is nascent and a large number of enterprises that are using mobile messaging services are in a nascent stage in terms of its utilization. There is a critical need for the awareness on mobile messaging to grow. Also, tracking performance metrics and wide scale adoption beyond customer services will help the enterprises take benefit in a more effective manner.

Specifically,
1. Features such as cost effectiveness, ease of use, wide reach, easy implementation and real-time messaging capabilities have driven enterprises to adopt mobile messaging services to improve their internal and external communication systems;

2. Mobile data services have found critical applications in various areas of functioning of an enterprise, be it marketing, customer services, supply chain management or IT;

The usage of mobile messaging services spans a wide arena of verticals such as banking and financial service institutions, stock broking, automotive, IT, marketing services, manufacturing and retail.

KEY FINDINGS – CURRENT SCENARIO AND FUTURE TRENDS

1. Lack of awareness – 41% of the respondents admit that their knowledge about the mobile messaging market is either “average” or “poor”, implying a general lack of knowledge about the industry;

2. RoI calculations not done - 89% of the enterprises are yet to implement any performance measures to assess the value proposition of the mobile messaging services. This means that the enterprise mobile messaging is yet to reach significant spend for the enterprises to keenly monitor the return on investment.

3. Customer services uses the most - 56% of the enterprises are using mobile messaging solutions to provide better service to their customers;

4. Competitive advantage – 84% of the enterprises feel that using mobile messaging services provides them with a competitive advantage over enterprises not using these services;

5. Positive outlook - 87% of the enterprises say that their use of mobile messaging services will increase significantly over the next one year.

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