Sunday, 19 July 2009

Free SMS Norway


Today, we're happy to see that we've hit the #1 spot in Norway for Free SMS:

http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sms+gratis

with www.sendgratissms.com

What's unusual about this, is that it's one of the few domains, where we weren't able to get a .no or .co.no domain.


Saturday, 18 July 2009

PAYPAL *SMS TXTCOUK

If you see "PAYPAL *SMS TXTCOUK" on your credit card statement, it's most likely a payment for reading a message online via our website www.freebiesms.co.uk or one of it's language variations.

Friday, 17 July 2009

Bad language filter for SMS messages.

Nobody likes to get an angry SMS message, from someone who has obviously got a gripe with you. But what can make it worse is when the sender uses offensive language at the same time.

We're all for freedom of speech here, and if you want to speak your mind to someone, we're not here to say you cant. But we are now drawing the line at offensive language, and racist comments.

Since we can't manually vet the millions of messages sent in many different languages, we have applied an automatic filter that censors the most foul of words in many languages.

For example, a antisemitic racist phrase like "Kike", is replaced by "***", since it has no place in civilized conversation. Similarly, in French, an insult like "Salope" would also be removed.

Automatic censorship can only go so far, and it is still possible to receive an abusive SMS. However, the Internet is not anonymous, and we can help track down and report offenders, if this happens to you.

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Changes to the Premium Rate SMS system in Spain

Supervisory Commission of premium rate services approved on June 29 of the Code of Conduct Premium SMS services. This Code provides operational services, and Premium SMS MMS Premium Spain under the new regulation.

As anticipated in previous bulletins, the deadline for termination of existing services is 4 months from the publication of the code in the State Gazette, which has not yet taken place but that will occur in a short period of time.


During the moratorium period, the current services will continue to coexist with the operational plan, we hope that circumstances allow an orderly transition and with the least disruption to users.

Monday, 29 June 2009

SMS to SK Telecom, Korea blocked

Terminating network SK Telecom in the Republic of Korea have imposed blocking of SMS upon an interconnect partner used by FreebieSMS to reach this destination network. As a result of this blocking the SK Telecom network is no longer reachable via FreebieSMS for clients with Bulk SMS accounts.

We are seeking information relating to why this action has been taken and making efforts to have this action reversed. Until this matter is resolved, terminating network SK Telecom will be removed from our publicized coverage.

Once the blocking has been removed we shall add this network back into our publicised coverage, and provide you with a further notification.

Also the following changes will take effect within the next few weeks

Armenia - K-Telecom - 3.5p/SMS on the Prime account and 4.2p/SMS on the Dynamic account.
Cote d'Ivoire - KoZ - 2.3p/SMS on the Prime account and 2.6p/SMS on the Dynamic account.


In addition, the following pricing changes will take effect on the Bulk SMS Prime accounts from Saturday 1st August 2009:

Bulk SMS Prime account -
Belgium - increase from 3.7p/SMS to 4.2p/SMS
Cote d'Ivoire - increase from 2.3p/SMS to 2.6p/SMS


Please also note the following network name changes which have now taken effect:

Australia - Network name changed from "Hutchison 3G Australia" to "Vodafone Hutchison Australia"
Belgium - Network name changed from "Base" to "KPN Group Belgium NV/SA"
Denmark - Network name changed from "Sonofon" to "Telenor Denmark"

Friday, 26 June 2009

Freebie SMS Case study






The Company

Freebie SMS, a trading name of Open Merchant Account Ltd, is an Irish Registered company and has been operating since 2004. Being primarily a software development company, with intellectual property investments in telecoms and services websites.

Reverse charged text messaging

Freebie SMS reverses the typical billing model of SMS messaging. It allows users to send SMS messages for free from its network of websites, and gives the recipient the option to pay to read the message. This means that friends and family can keep in contact, even when their phone is out of credit or broken.

Its network of websites currently spans 27 countries, including most of Europe, USA, Australia, South Africa and Malaysia.

http://www.freebiesms.co.uk

Friday, 19 June 2009

SMS Lingo

Confused by SMS Texting? Use this Lingo List!

Learning how to use SMS texting is like learning a new language. Most words are abbreviated to save time in typing your messages, even with full text keyboards. For example, the word "something" would be "smth" instead. Using a guide for lingo, or a lingo key, will keep you from making up your own abbreviations to use while helping you to communicate with people who send text messages frequently. It is important not to make up your own abbreviations to take the place of the lingo that already exists because it will be confusing to other people who do not know what your particular SMS abbreviations mean.

Some frequently used words when sending SMS texts are "LOL," "LMAO," "BFF," "smth" and "idk". LOL is an abbreviation of "laughing out loud" and you will see it written in lower case as well as upper case, and even with the first letter in uppercase only. LOL is put at the beginning or end of a sentence, either intended to be funny or as a comment to something funny. LMAO is "laughing my a** off" and is used in the same way as LOL. Both abbreviations can also be used alone, usually after a person has said something funny. Once you begin using SMS texting frequently, you will see how easy these abbreviations are to use in everyday language.

BFF means "best friends forever" and is used frequently in everyday conversation between particular age groups. It can be beneficial to know what this means when referring to individuals who are close to you in particular situations. BFF, like LOL and LMAO can be in all upper case letters as well as all lowercase. Situations where BFF will have the first letter uppercase and the other letters lower case is usually as a result of intending all letters to be lower case, but the default for the first letter in a message is to make it upper case. The abbreviation "idk" is usually all lower case and means "I don't know," a phrase frequently used by teenagers and preteens.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of frequently used abbreviations for individuals to use while sending SMS messages. The best way to learn is to simply try it for yourself, and you can nearly guarantee that if your choice of lingo isn't catching on, your friends will certainly be kind enough to let you know that what you are choosing to say it is not working for you. You can find further lingo lists available online by doing a search for "SMS texting abbreviations/ language." It will be easy to find, because you are not alone in wanting to figure out what's being said out there.


About the Author

Uma Ilango is a programmer by profession.