Posts Tagged ‘ sms ’

MobileWeb supports 11.11.11 through SMS campaign

MobileWeb and the mobile partners KPN Group Belgium, Mobistar, Proximus and Telenet join forces and open a short SMS number to collect money for 11.11.11. Clients can send a message to 4666 and donate €1 for the campaign. This year’s action wants to draw attention on climate change and the impact of it on the [ READ MORE ]

MobileWeb supports SMS action for Africa. SMS ‘ja’ – ‘oui’ to 4666

The Horn of Africa is currently hit by one of the severest droughts in 20 years. 12 million people are at risk of starvation as the drought and famine intensifies across Somalia, Ethiopia, North of Kenya and Djibouti. The UN says this could lead to the biggest world food crisis of the 21st century and the different [ READ MORE ]

Innovative SMS campaign replaces recruitement letter

MobileWeb creates platform for interim agencies to connect faster and easier with job candidates. The classic letter of application seems to be outdated. T-Interim is the first agency that uses sms to recruit candidates. It’s a fast and easy way for companies to connect with the right profiles. Volvo Cars is currently enrolling the system [ READ MORE ]

bpost and MobileWeb deliver your New Year’s SMS on a Post Card

bpost, the Belgian postal office, has launched yesterday an innovative new product the “SMS Post Card” (SMS Kaartje / Carte SMS). You can send your New Year’s wishes via SMS to a shortcode. bpost will print out your wishes on a nice postcard and sent it to the destination you indicate in your SMS. Try [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Messaging Latest news: Telenet, GOF Guidelines and special characters in SMS

MobileWeb announces today 2 important upgrades of our SMS messaging platform: The implementation of Telenet as a separate mobile operator Complete support of special characters such as €, é, à, … in SMS messages We hereby also inform you officially that as from October 15th 2010 modified GOF Guidelines will apply to SMS services in Belgium. Additionally [ READ MORE ]

SMS can reduce missed appointments

Mobile solutions for healthcare Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare provider, is using mobile as a means of cutting costs on its communication infrastructure. Kaiser needed to find a solution that would cut patient communication costs and at the same time have the potential for a national rollout and have a considerably short development [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti: already more than 100.000 euro collected

Press release On Monday January 18th at 10.00, the customers of mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus have already donated more than € 100 000 to the victims of the earthquake in Haïti. Until January 31st at midnight, customers can donate 1 euro by sending a sms message to the number 4666, containing the message “yes” or the code of the [ READ MORE ]

SMS 4666: MobileWeb and operators join forces to help Haiti earthquake victims

MobileWeb.be and the Belgian mobile operators Proximus, Mobistar and Base have joined forces to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Tuesday January 12th, a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the scale of Richter has hit the poor western province of Haiti, a region of 2,2 million inhabitants.  The [ READ MORE ]

96,1 million SMS on New Year’s Eve

In the last days of 2009, the Belgian mobile operators were anticipating some 100 million SMS messages to be send on New Year’s Eve.  The end result is a bit less but still a record: 96,1 million messages.  One year earlier, that amount was at 78,3 million. Proximus treated 40,8 million SMS between 20.00 (31 dec.) [ READ MORE ]

SMS helps to stop smoking

When SMS messages are used as an aid to stop smoking, they double the sucess rate. International research among 2.600 smokers has shown that daily text messages which encourages and advice the smoker can help to stop smoking.  During the test, people who had a tough moment and who were in need of nicotine, could [ READ MORE ]

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