I had a note in from a regular reader asking who I recommend for the provision of outgoing SMS text messaging services in the United States (with the potential to add the UK as a destination later on). They’re after a good quality service with API — but they don’t need two-way, just outgoing. I [...]

It’s Fine Day today — the UK regulator, PhonepayPlus published details of the companies that it has fined for breach of its regulations last month. Most of the fines are 5,000 or 10,000… small beer, really, especially compared to last month’s 175,000 pound whopper fine for SMS.ac. 2Ergo is banished to the naughty step as [...]

If I want a UK number to receive text messages, who should I be using? The last time I bought MSISDN numbers, I used… gosh let me try and remember. ZIM something. Somebody ZIM. I’ll get it in a moment……. trying to think. ZIM EPL! That’s it. They had a pretty good amount of gold, [...]

Got this in from Hugh at Mediaburst. They’re definitely are knocking back the client wins — this time they’re helping Co-operative Travel deliver a mobile marketing campaign across point-of-sale media at Co-operative Food retail stores. The point-of-sale is actually at the check-out. So if you’re standing waiting in a queue and you’ve got everything out [...]