Joined: Aug '07
Location: Malta
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We decided to jump on the wagon with a small niche:
SEND FREE SMS MESSAGES FROM BANKROLLMOB
Unfortunately it is only available for Danish people right now, as our provider does not yet have an international gateway for us.
So for now, we will allow danish Mob users to send up to 10 free sms messages a day directly from their Mob account here at www.bankrollmob.com. The SMS messages will arrive as being sent from the users own mobile number, so any reply will come directly to the users mobilenumber.
There is NO CHARGE for this service at all - we will add a small text to the end of each SMS, something like "Free SMS from BankrollMob.com" (but in danish).
It's quite simple, but we would like to have a few danish people help test it out for a few days before we open it up for all the danes out there.
Give a "horaah" in this thread if you want to get access to it
Joined: Oct '07
Location: Philippines
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Wow! this is a neat feature, i just sure hope this gets implemented and also made available to other countries as well so all of the members can enjoy it.
Joined: Aug '07
Location: Malta
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Currently up to 10 sms's a day. This is a global limit, but it's fairly easy to change it to "individual setting", in case this experiement turns out to be good and somebody would like to be able to send more messages than the 10 daily, or change it to 200 a month or something.
For now, there's the following tabs availabe in the Mob SMS section: * SMS (send messages) * Contacts (manage your contacts, create new numbers with names etc) * Log (all your sent messages are displayed here) * Settings (validate your danish mobile phone number)
Anything else you would require? I think it should be pretty simple and straight forward, like it is (you will get access to it later, maybe tonight).
Unfortunately there's no easy way to "import" your contacts directly, so those you want to SMS to free, will have to be added to the Contacts once, then they can be selected from a drop-down menu.
Joined: Aug '07
Location: Malta
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M3, Just play around with it and use it as you would have normally. And report any bugs in another thread I will create shortly. It's almost ready for test launch
Yes, the free SMS services disappeared from Denmark because the mobile phone operators started to charge an "interconnect" fee for every sms. It's still like that, so the only way it can work is by sponsored messages. In this case, we add "BankrollMob.com" in the end of every SMS.
And as mentioned, it's just an experiement. Hopefully it will turn out good
------------ Danish people from this thread will have access to Mob SMS now - just go to your Mob account and it's about halfway down the page.
... there's still room for some danish testers, just "hoorah" in this thread. I'll be away most of tomorrow though, so you won't be added before tuesday evening.
Edited by Administrator (07 April 2008 @ 19:44 GMT)
Joined: Dec '07
Location: Denmark
Age: 59 (F)
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Hoorah Can I try too
There is NO CHARGE for this service at all - we will add a small text to the end of each SMS, something like "Free SMS from BankrollMob.com" (but in danish).
Joined: Oct '07
Location: Philippines
Age: 41 (M)
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Wow, it's nice to see that this project is progressing very nicely indeed. are there any chances that this will also be available in other countries as well? It would be nice to have this system or something like 5 mobpoints per SMS (international)
Joined: Aug '07
Location: Malta
Age: 41 (M)
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im2good4u, It's way too early to say anything about that yet. Now we first try this out, but if we can get access to an internetional gateway that can send to most countries, then we might be able to offer some free messages and some "paid by mobpoints" maybe. But as it is now, we have to pre-order a certain amount of messages for each country we want to be able to use. That's why we start out with denmark, take it from there.
It rocks being from Denmark! BRM is very generous towards us. Very nice concept.
