SMS is the perfect emergency communications channel, right? People always have their phones with them, especially in an emergency; you can easily send one message to a number of people, and you can text when you can’t talk. Indeed, just over an hou...
Communications technology, such as the internet and mobile phones, certainly make life easier: from online banking, to staying in touch, to news and weather on the go and all the other benefits that have become such an integral part of our daily live...
Contemporary wisdom says that the lower the price of a service, the more people will use it. Consumer electronics is a great example of this though the early adopters will pay a premium to be the first to own a new gadget, it is only when the price d...
Today the early warning for a government in trouble seems to be when the rulers in question clamp down on electronic communication, especially social media and SMS. We've seen it happen across the African continent and further afield, starting with M...
By Dr Pieter Streicher, MD at BulkSMS.com
It's important to include mobile included in your marketing mix, and especially SMS thanks to its reach, pervasiveness and acceptance by consumers across all demographics. How do you effectively use SMS to...
There is no denying that the launch of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) "do-not-contact registry" to allow South African customers to permanently opt out of all unsolicited marketing communications will be a massive step forward for consumer rights....
Mobile payments for mobile subscription services are receiving much news of late due to negative consumer sentiment over unsolicited billings. An imminent change in the way that Vodacom customers sign up for third-party mobile subscription services ...
While email spam is very annoying, it has unfortunately become something that most of us live with. SMS spam on the other hand, while less pervasive than email spam, is often a very different matter, thanks to how attached we have become to our cellp...
Time and time again SMS is the technological exception to the rule. Not only is it incredibly resistant to downward price pressure, which has seen it immune to the dramatic price drops in the tech world over the last 10 years, it also refuses to be u...
According to Clay Shirky, renowned digital media commentator, "communication tools don't become socially interesting until they become technologically boring". Now while I'll never consider SMS boring, I'd argue that SMS has become so entrenched in o...
Dr Pieter Streicher graduated from WITS with a BSc-Eng(Civil) in 1991 and he received his PhD from UCT in 1996. After working as a civil engineer at HHO Africa, Dr Streicher, along with Richard Simpson, (BSc-Eng(Civil), MBA), established Celerity Systems in mid-2000 as an IT services company focusing on
the marketing and management of Internet-based solutions.
BulkSMS.com was established in 2000 as a division of Celerity Systems to focus on SMS messaging solutions for commercial and non-commercial communications.
As a leading wireless application service provider, BulkSMS.com offers bulk SMS messaging solutions to large and small businesses, public benefit organisations, and individuals.
The company is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and has a global market presence, including in Europe, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
BulkSMS.com offers two-way bulk SMS messaging, premium rate solutions and supports mobile marketing campaigns to further an organisation’s SMS communication needs. BulkSMS.com’s flagship messaging solution is the BulkSMS Text Messenger, an application that allows clients to quickly deploy an SMS messaging service from a computer.
Today, the BulkSMS.com is a leading wireless application service provider and was recognized by Vodacom as a top achieving aggregator in the mobile messaging industry for 2009.
