RouteSms Solutions Limited (RSL) is a leading mobile messaging and software development organization. It's journey begins way back in May 2004 and it has reached many milestones in the past 5 years, in the field of mobile messaging, content development, mobile messaging platform, Short-Code integration and software development on Java, php, .net, and many more.
RouteSms Solutions Limited (RSL) believes in complete enhancement of the client's expectations, with the latest wireless technology available.
The organization's innovations are effectively tuned with the client's specifications to give them one-up advantage over their competitors. RSL's current infrastructure and carrier connection provide a unique and the most reliable solution, as far as other providers are concern. It provides a cost-effective module that suits clients with higher as well as lower budgets. RSL believes in 99.9% up-time, since its infrastructure is based on the most reliable and industry-proven hardware and software.
The company's highly skilled and experienced team of Mobile Telecom Engineers makes the system a step ahead of competition, in terms of the best client support and services.
RouteSms has designed and deployed the most stable and reliable Enterprise Messaging delivery platform and has a direct carrier-level connection with more than 27 international SMSC's. With smart prefix based routing, RSL tries to cover around 560+ global networks.
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Professional Profile
- Sandip Gupta
- Mumbai - Malad, Maharastra, India
- Founder & Chief Executive Officer at RouteSms Solutions Limited. Sandip Gupta is a Chartered Accountant and a SAP Certified Consultant.With over 15 years of extensive experience in Business Analysis, SAP Configuration and Software Systems Consulting.Worked for many organizations which includes PriceWaterhouseCoopers - India and Covansys (India) Pvt. Ltd.
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Benefit at using 5676729 Short code via RouteSms Solutions Limited
RouteSms has its own dedicated short code 5676729 with all India coverage
Flat rate of 3000 INR per keyword per year basis
No Setup fees and no volume commitment
Dedicated web interface to all short code clients to manage there Keyword and campaigns
2-way system level API integration for software or messaging aggregators
Verticals that can use 5676729
Banks
Hotels
Hospitals
Insurance
Education
Multiplexes
Call Centers
Retail Shops
Manufacturing
Stock Exchanges
Sales & Service
Travels & Tours
Public Services/Utility
Media & Entertainment
Applications Service Providers
Benefit at using 5676729 Short code via RouteSms Solutions Limited
RouteSms has its own dedicated short code 5676729 with all India coverage
Flat rate of 3000 INR per keyword per year basis
No Setup fees and no volume commitment
Dedicated web interface to all short code clients to manage there Keyword and campaigns
2-way system level API integration for software or messaging aggregators
Verticals that can use 5676729
Banks
Hotels
Hospitals
Insurance
Education
Multiplexes
Call Centers
Retail Shops
Manufacturing
Stock Exchanges
Sales & Service
Travels & Tours
Public Services/Utility
Media & Entertainment
Applications Service Providers
Routesms HLR Lookup System
The GSM industry has identified a number of potential fraud attacks on mobile operators that are caused by abuse of SMS messaging services. The most serious of these threats is SMS Spoofing. SMS Spoofing occurs when a fraudster manipulates address information in order to impersonate a user that has roamed onto a foreign network and is submitting messages to the home network. Frequently, these messages are addressed to destinations outside the home network – with the home SMSC essentially being “hijacked” to send messages into other networks.
The only 100%-sure way of detecting and blocking spoofed messages is to screen incoming mobile originated messages to verify that the sender is a valid subscriber and that the message is coming from a valid and correct location. This can be implemented by adding an intelligent routing function to the network that can query originating subscriber details from the Routesms HLR Lookup System before the message is submitted for delivery. This kind of intelligent routing function is beyond the capabilities of legacy messaging infrastructure
Thanks Manish
Mobile Number portability : A synonym for telecom revolution
Now, consumers could start changing their mobile phone service providers without having to surrender their numbers by this year end.
Indian Telecom regulator TRAI has formulated the guidelines for mobile number portability (MNP), which will be introduced by August-end. TRAI also asked operators to keep their networks ready to roll out the services quickly.
Also, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) confirmed that the telecom operators are actively working on that, but they still need some clarification, but the association substantiates that MNP should come by September this year.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had issued guidelines for MNP implementation in August 2008. Also, in March, DoT had selected two US companies, Syniverse and Telcordia, as technology providers for the implementation. Syniverse will implement the technology in north and west, while Telcordia would handle the services in the south and the eastern states.
Now the question is what MNP is and what are its benefits to common user? Is there any hidden agenda or ill-effects of this transformation? Let’s check it out in the feature.
Mobile number portability (MNP)
MNP enables users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another, avoiding the costs of switching to new numbers. Like India, various countries asked mobile telephone network operators to offer MNP, but the question is whether it can produce positive net benefits.
Benefits of number portability
1. It facilitates consumers to choose across mobile operators, as it removes the inbuilt cost of a number change when moving to a new provider.
2. Any number change involves a natural cost to the user, who would otherwise have to notify friends, family, partners and allies of their new number or re-print cards or stationary.
3. With MNP, consumers can move in between operators, where they may get a better deal on tariffs or services with another operator.
4. The service will be available to both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers.
Number Portability problems
1. High end-user charges for MNP can deter usage of the facility. According to the state-owned Telco BSNL, upgrading networks to allow MNP would cost the company about Rs 1,200 crores and only 2% of the elite customers were likely to use this facility, which suggest that it will cost about Rs 6,000 per user to port their number. Hence, various telecom companies want users to bear number portability cost.
2. Consumers who have wireless connection or any contractual agreement with the service operator could be in trouble by losing its contract or remaining money on the operator, as there is no clear guideline available yet.
3. Also, the process of switching to the new operator will take time and it can run upto 5 days.
4. For a new vendor, with limited infrastructure, it will be very difficult to sustain in the competitive atmosphere and hence, the change-over rate will be higher when MNP is there.
Conclusion
Various customers switch operators at some point after their new mobile subscription, which has many reasons, e.g. changes in individual demand patterns, service innovation, operator new offerings and changing price and quality propositions. So, with the help of new portability, consumers would not change the number but only the service provider without paying any cost.
Mobile Number portability : A synonym for telecom revolution
Now, consumers could start changing their mobile phone service providers without having to surrender their numbers by this year end.
Indian Telecom regulator TRAI has formulated the guidelines for mobile number portability (MNP), which will be introduced by August-end. TRAI also asked operators to keep their networks ready to roll out the services quickly.
Also, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) confirmed that the telecom operators are actively working on that, but they still need some clarification, but the association substantiates that MNP should come by September this year.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had issued guidelines for MNP implementation in August 2008. Also, in March, DoT had selected two US companies, Syniverse and Telcordia, as technology providers for the implementation. Syniverse will implement the technology in north and west, while Telcordia would handle the services in the south and the eastern states.
Now the question is what MNP is and what are its benefits to common user? Is there any hidden agenda or ill-effects of this transformation? Let’s check it out in the feature.
Mobile number portability (MNP)
MNP enables users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another, avoiding the costs of switching to new numbers. Like India, various countries asked mobile telephone network operators to offer MNP, but the question is whether it can produce positive net benefits.
Benefits of number portability
1. It facilitates consumers to choose across mobile operators, as it removes the inbuilt cost of a number change when moving to a new provider.
2. Any number change involves a natural cost to the user, who would otherwise have to notify friends, family, partners and allies of their new number or re-print cards or stationary.
3. With MNP, consumers can move in between operators, where they may get a better deal on tariffs or services with another operator.
4. The service will be available to both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers.
Number Portability problems
1. High end-user charges for MNP can deter usage of the facility. According to the state-owned Telco BSNL, upgrading networks to allow MNP would cost the company about Rs 1,200 crores and only 2% of the elite customers were likely to use this facility, which suggest that it will cost about Rs 6,000 per user to port their number. Hence, various telecom companies want users to bear number portability cost.
2. Consumers who have wireless connection or any contractual agreement with the service operator could be in trouble by losing its contract or remaining money on the operator, as there is no clear guideline available yet.
3. Also, the process of switching to the new operator will take time and it can run upto 5 days.
4. For a new vendor, with limited infrastructure, it will be very difficult to sustain in the competitive atmosphere and hence, the change-over rate will be higher when MNP is there.
Conclusion
Various customers switch operators at some point after their new mobile subscription, which has many reasons, e.g. changes in individual demand patterns, service innovation, operator new offerings and changing price and quality propositions. So, with the help of new portability, consumers would not change the number but only the service provider without paying any cost.
SMS Marketing is quickly becoming a primary method for making sure your marketing pound is worth every penny. There are different SMS broadcasting companies which send, receive and interpret voice and text messages to help businesses sell more, inform fast and engage everyone. With the help of SMS Marketing and mobile marketing you can easily ensure the delivery of your message to your recipients wherever they may be and at whatever time you wish them to receive your message. There are different companies which are involved in various forms of SMS Marketing. They use SMS to support the current and existing forms of marketing i.e. they pre-empt a direct mail campaign with an SMS in a way raising the response rates. They also allow you to set up short dial SMS codes that enable customers to text their interests in your products and services. You can hold SMS competitions, auctions and quizzes.
SMS has been successful in improving the condition of several business firms which were on the verge of a shut-down. These companies have used the SMS Marketing to carry forward their business to new dimensions in a way improving their business to a very larger extent.
SMS as part of GSM
initial concept
The idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was latent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM approved in December 1982 requested "The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ...should be available in the mobile system".[3] This target includes the exchange of text messages either directly between mobile stations or the transmission via Message Handling Systems widely in use since the beginning of the 1980s.[4]
The innovation in SMS is indicated by the word Short in Short Message Service. The GSM system is optimized for telephony, since this was identified as its main application. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. In this way unused resources in the system could be used to transport messages without additional cost. However, it was necessary to limit the length of the messages to 128 bytes (later improved to 140 bytes, or 160 7-bit characters), so that the messages could fit into the existing signaling formats. Therefore the service was named “Short Message Service”.
This concept allowed implementing the SMS in every mobile station with additional software routines. A new network element required was a specialised Short Message Service Centre, as well as enhancement to the radio capacity and network transport infrastructure. It needed capacity expansions of course with growing SMS traffic. This concept was instrumental for the implementation of SMS in every mobile station ever produced and in every network from early days on. Hence a large base of SMS capable terminals and networks existed when the users began to utilise the SMS
SMS History
SMS was an accidental success that took nearly everyone in the mobile industry by surprise. Few people predicted that this hard of use service would take off. There was hardly any promotion for or mention of SMS by network operators until after SMS started to be a success. SMS advertising went from showing business people in suits entering text messages to bright pink and yellow advertisements aimed at the youth markets that adopted SMS.
SMS was the triumph of the consumer - every generation needs a technology that it can adopt as its own to communicate with - and the text generation took up SMS. Paradoxically, it was because SMS was so very difficult to use that the young people said that they were going to overcome the man machine interface and other issues and use the service anyway. The fact that the entry barriers to learning the service were so high were an advantage because it meant that parents and teachers and other adult authority figures were unlikely, unable and unwilling to use the service.
A whole new alphabet emerged because SMS messages took a long time to enter and were quite abrupt as people attempted to say as much as possible with as few keystrokes. Abbreviations such as 'C U L8er' for 'See you later' sprung up for timesaving and coolness. The use of smileys to reduce the abruptness of the medium and to help indicate the mood of the person in a way that was difficult with just text became popular.
The introduction of prepay mobile tariffs in which people could pay for their airtime in advance and thereby control their mobile phone expenditure was the catalyst that accelerated the take up of SMS. The network operators were unable technically to bill prepay customers for the SMS they were using because the links between the prepay platform and the billing system and the SMS Centers were not in place. The network operators responded with silence- the prepay literature did not mention SMS at all even though the prepay phones supported the service. One thing that is certain is that in these days with the Internet revolution to spread information, the young people will identify loopholes like this. And they did. Suddenly, millions more SMS messages were being sent- with some individual mobile phone subscriptions accounting for thousands of SMS per month alone as they set up automated message generators. Network operators worked with their platform suppliers to try and sort this out and implement charging for SMS for prepay customers. Meanwhile SMS incubated and spread and people were using it because it cost nothing whereas carrying out the same transaction using voice clearly did cost. Eventually after a few months the network operators finally got their act together and managed to implement SMS charging for prepay users- such that they could decrement the prepay credit by the cost of an SMS message.
A mass SMS message distribution campaign was then typically sent out- such that everyone that had used SMS received a text message informing them that from a certain date, SMS would be charged for. This led to an immediate and protracted decline in SMS usage to between 25% and 40% of the pre-charging levels as people suddenly stopped using SMS or using it as much. Then something interesting happened- the volume of SMS messages started gradually increasing again and soon reached its pre-charging levels. SMS volume growth has continued its upward growth ever since, fueled by simple person to person messaging as people told each other how they were feeling and what they were doing- information services and other operator led initiatives failed to interest the user community to any degree and never have done. Whilst it was free, SMS had become an important part of the way that young people communicated with each other in their daily life. SMS would have taken off without this prepay factor because it was already being used before that time- but it would never have taken off as quickly.
SMS continued its astonishing growth during the year 2000 in Europe, a period of time when the mobile industry was trying to dictate the deployment of WAP. Despite doing nearly nothing else of any benefit, WAP did at least increase the attention that the mobile Internet received as people tried to work out services that would appeal to the mobile phone users. Those companies that survived the WAP debacle started to realize that it was SMS and not WAP that had the addressable audience of users and the clearer business case. Advertising and other services based on SMS started to be trialed as companies realized that people who could use SMS for person to person messaging would also be able to access SMS based commercial messages.
The next great success for SMS based services was ringtones. Nokia had started its smart messaging protocol that was built on binary SMS rather than the standard text SMS. Nokia had expected this technology to be used for information services and over the air service profiling and it had languished for years, until suddenly in the year 2000, it found its application- ringtones that allow users to change the way their mobile phone rang. Because the network operators were woefully inadequate and unable to offer the ringtone suppliers fair and flexible revenue sharing, the service providers started using premium rate Interactive Voice Response (IVR) voice platforms to trigger the transmission of ringtones. The ringtones market soon became a billion dollar market- and few of the network operators even offered services- this category was dominated by independent service providers who advertised in newspapers and magazines.
Early development
No individual expert or company can claim to be the ‘father’ or ‘creator’ of the SMS. The GSM project as a whole was indeed a multi-national collaboration at its best. Therefore the responsibility for the SMS innovation is not with a single person but with a network of closely cooperating persons who have created this innovation. They did this with the supporting framework of Standard Bodies and through these organisations made the technology freely available to the whole world. This is described and supported by evidence in the following sections.[6]
The first proposal for SMS which initiated the development of SMS in the group GSM was made by a contribution of Germany and France into the GSM meeting in February 1985 in Oslo[7]. This proposal was further elaborated in GSM subgroup WP1 Services (Chairman Martine Alvernhe, France Telecom) based on a contribution from Germany. There were also initial discussions in the subgroup WP3 network aspects chaired by Jan Audestad (Telenor). The result was approved by the main group GSM in a document of June 85 which was distributed to industry.[8] The input documents on SMS had been prepared by Friedhelm Hillebrand (Deutsche Telekom) with contributions from Bernard Ghillebaert (France Télécom).
SMS was considered in the main GSM group as a possible service for the new digital cellular system. In GSM document "Services and Facilities to be provided in the GSM System",[1] both mobile originated and mobile terminated short messages appear on the table of GSM teleservices.
Early implementations
The first SMS message[17] was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neil Papworth of Sema Group (now Airwide Solutions) using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset. The text of the message was "Merry Christmas".[18] The first SMS typed on a GSM phone is claimed to have been sent by Riku Pihkonen, an engineering student at Nokia, in 1993.[19]
The first commercial deployment of a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) was by Aldiscon (now Acision) with TeliaSonera in Sweden in 1993,[20], followed by Fleet Call (now Nextel)[citation needed] in the US, Telenor in Norway[citation needed] and BT Cellnet (now O2 UK)[citation needed] later in 1993.
Initial growth was slow, with customers in 1995 sending on average only 0.4 messages per GSM customer per month.[21] One factor in the slow takeup of SMS was that operators were slow to set up charging systems, especially for prepaid subscribers, and eliminate billing fraud which was possible by changing SMSC settings on individual handsets to use the SMSCs of other operators[citation needed].
Over time, this issue was eliminated by switch-billing instead of billing at the SMSC and by new features within SMSCs to allow blocking of foreign mobile users sending messages through it. By the end of 2000, the average number of messages reached 35 per user per month,[21] and by Christmas Day 2006, over 205m texts were sent in the UK alone.[22]
It is also alleged that the fact that roaming customers, in the early days, rarely received bills for their SMSs after holidays abroad had a boost on text messaging as an alternative to voice calls[citation needed].
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Text messaging outside GSM
SMS was originally designed as part of GSM, but is now available on a wide range of networks, including 3G networks. However, not all text messaging systems use SMS, and some notable alternate implementations of the concept include J-Phone's SkyMail and NTT Docomo's Short Mail, both in Japan. E-mail messaging from phones, as popularized by NTT Docomo's i-mode and the RIM BlackBerry, also typically use standard mail protocols such as SMTP over TCP/IP.
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SMS today
Commercially SMS is a massive industry in 2006 worth over 81 billion dollars globally.[23] SMS has an average global price of 0.11 USD while costing providers almost nothing. Mobile networks charge each other so-called interconnect fees of at least £0.03 when connecting between different phone networks[24]
SMS gateway providers facilitate the SMS traffic between businesses and mobile subscribers, being mainly responsible for carrying mission-critical messages, SMS for enterprises, content delivery and entertainment services involving SMS, e.g. TV voting. Considering SMS messaging performance and cost, as well as the level of messaging services, SMS gateway providers can be classified as aggregators or SS7 providers.
The aggregator model is based on multiple agreements with mobile carriers to exchange 2-way SMS traffic into and out of the operator’s SMS platform (Short Message Service Centre – SMS-C), also known as local termination model. Aggregators lack direct access into the SS7 protocol, which is the protocol where the SMS messages are exchanged. SMS messages are delivered in the operator’s SMS-C, but not the subscriber’s handset, the SMS-C takes care of further handling of the message through the SS7 network
Another type of SMS gateway provider is based on SS7 connectivity to route SMS messages, also known as international termination model. The advantage of this model is the ability to route data directly through SS7, which gives the provider total control and visibility of the complete path during the SMS routing. This means SMS messages can be sent directly to and from recipients without having to go through the SMS-Centres of other mobile operators. Therefore, it’s possible to avoid delays and message losses, offering full delivery guarantees of messages and optimised routing. This model is particularly efficient when used in mission-critical messaging and SMS used in corporate communications.
Text messaging, or texting is a colloquial term referring to the exchange of brief written messages between mobile phones, over cellular networks. While the term most often refers to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS), it has been extended to include messages containing image, video, and sound content, such as MMS messages. Individual messages are referred to as "text messages" or "texts".
The most common application of the service is person-to-person messaging, but text messages are also used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and services for mobile phones, or participating in contests. Advertisers and service providers use texts to notify mobile phone users about promotions, payment due dates, and other notifications that were previously sent by post or left as voicemail. There are internet services available that allow users to send text messages free of direct charge to the sender.
(SMS) is a communication service standardized in the GSM mobile communication system, using standardized communications protocols allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones.The SMS technology has facilitated the development and growth of text messaging. The connection between the phenomenon of text messaging and the underlying technology is so great that in parts of the world the term "SMS" is used as a synonym for a text message or the act of sending a text message, even when a different protocol is being used.SMS as used on modern handsets was originally defined as part of the GSM series of standards in 1985[1] as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters (including spaces), to and from GSM mobile handsets.[2] Since then, support for the service has expanded to include other mobile technologies such as ANSI CDMA networks and Digital AMPS, as well as satellite and landline networks.Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages, though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.
The idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was latent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM approved in December 1982 requested "The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ...should be available in the mobile system". This target includes the exchange of text messages either directly between mobile stations or the transmission via Message Handling Systems widely in use since the beginning of the 1980s.The innovation in SMS is indicated by the word Short in Short Message Service. The GSM system is optimized for telephony, since this was identified as its main application. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. In this way unused resources in the system could be used to transport messages without additional cost. However, it was necessary to limit the length of the messages to 128 bytes (later improved to 140 bytes, or 160 7-bit characters), so that the messages could fit into the existing signaling formats. Therefore the service was named “Short Message Service”.This concept allowed implementing the SMS in every mobile station with additional software routines. A new network element required was a specialised Short Message Service Centre, as well as enhancement to the radio capacity and network transport infrastructure. It needed capacity expansions of course with growing SMS traffic. This concept was instrumental for the implementation of SMS in every mobile station ever produced and in every network from early days on. Hence a large base of SMS capable terminals and networks existed when the users began to utilise the SMS.
India to have 100Mn new mobile numbers beginning with ‘8'
Looking at the pace with which the Indian mobile market is growing in terms of subscribers, DoT has run out of numbers that begin with ‘9' and soon enough will have numbers that begin with the digit ‘8'. According to a local media report, nearly 100 million new numbers will be introduced in the market, half of which will be allotted to the operators.
According to TRAI, India’s mobile subscriber base stood at 415 million at May’09-end compared to 277 million, a year ago. Considering the substantial growth in the number of telecom service subscribers, DoT is planning making mobile phone numbers to 11 digits.
India to have 100Mn new mobile numbers beginning with ‘8'
Looking at the pace with which the Indian mobile market is growing in terms of subscribers, DoT has run out of numbers that begin with ‘9' and soon enough will have numbers that begin with the digit ‘8'. According to a local media report, nearly 100 million new numbers will be introduced in the market, half of which will be allotted to the operators.
According to TRAI, India’s mobile subscriber base stood at 415 million at May’09-end compared to 277 million, a year ago. Considering the substantial growth in the number of telecom service subscribers, DoT is planning making mobile phone numbers to 11 digits.
MTN expects 1H earnings to rise by as much as 25%
African mobile group to release first-half results later this week.
MTN Group Ltd., the African cellphone operator negotiating a tie-up with India's Bharti Airtel Ltd., Tuesday said it expects first-half earnings to rise as much as 25% despite the negative impact of a strong rand.
Johannesburg-based MTN, Africa's largest cellphone company with operations in 21 countries, has been racking up subscribers across the continent and the Middle East. It reported 8% growth to almost 90.7 million customers during the first three months of the year and passed the 100-million mark in April.
MTN said attributable earnings per share are expected to have risen between 20% and 25% in the first half of the year, despite the negative impact of a stronger rand and unrealized foreign exchange losses on loans to and receivables from certain operations.
Click here to find out more!Adjusted headline EPS, which excludes certain one-time items, is expected to have fallen by between 8.6% and almost 14%. MTN said this largely reflects the reversal of the affect of a put option a shareholder has on its Nigerian operation, while the year-ago period included the reversal of a deferred tax debit in Nigeria.
MTN's shares ended the day 0.7% lower at 127.01 rand, giving it a market capitalization of about $30 billion. The stock has risen about 17% since the start of the year.
The company in May said it had revived merger talks with Bharti Airtel, India's largest cellphone operator, almost one year after talks over a similar deal collapsed. The companies have twice extended the exclusive period for negotiations, which are now due to expire at the end of September.
If a deal can be reached, it would create one of the world's largest emerging-market focused cellphone companies with more than 200 million subscribers and annual revenue of $20 billion.
MTN is scheduled to release its half-year results Thursday.
CDMA and GSM operators to share
The war between CDMA and GSM proponents may not exactly be drawing to a close, but at least they’re starting to find some middle ground. In order to keep up with the rapidly growing subscriber base, mobile service providers in India have agreed to share their infrastructure, particularly cell phone towers, with one another.
The project has been dubbed “MOST”, standing for Mobile Operators’ Shared Towers, and that is exactly the gist of the idea. All the mobile service providers can build what they need on the same towers, alleviating the heavy costs of setting up their networks. At least four sites have been identified for this project – Delhi High Court, Rajorkri, Dhansa, and Noida – with surely many more to come in the future.
As the mobile subscriber base in India continues to grow, operators like Airtel, Hutch and Tata will need to expand their service to accommodate. According to some estimates, there will be 200 million cell phones in use in India by 2007. They will need to double the number of towers (currently 70,000) to be able to handle that many subscribers. By 2010, they’re expecting half a billion users, and the need rises to 350,000 towers.
Short Message Service (SMS) is a communication service standardized in the GSM mobile communication system, using standardized communications protocols allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones.[citation needed] The SMS technology has facilitated the development and growth of text messaging. The connection between the phenomenon of text messaging and the underlying technology is so great that in parts of the world the term "SMS" is used as a synonym for a text message or the act of sending a text message, even when a different protocol is being used.
SMS as used on modern handsets was originally defined as part of the GSM series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters (including spaces), to and from GSM mobile handsets. Since then, support for the service has expanded to include other mobile technologies such as ANSI CDMA networks and Digital AMPS, as well as satellite and landline networks.[citation needed] Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages, though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.
BIO Messaging
Definition
The BIO Messaging component provides a means of handling incoming messages that are intended for processing by the device as opposed to being displayed to a user.
Examples of these types of messages include:
* Internet Access configuration: automatic updates of Internet settings
* email settings: update or creation of email accounts
* vCards: electronic business cards
* vCals: electronic calendar entries.
BIO stands for Bearer-Independent Object: this is a reminder that the handling of such a message does not depend on the type of transport (e.g. SMS or email) over which it was received.
How It Works?
The BIO Messaging component can be split into two parts: the BIO framework and the BIO parsers. BIO parsers provide functionality to parse and process particular types of message. It is possible to add new BIO parsers to provide support for different types of BIO message. All parsers derive from a base class CBaseScriptParser.
The framework manages a database of BIO message information that can be used to determine the type of the incoming message. A component called the BIO watcher is responsible for watching for new messages that fit one of these types.
Once a BIO message has been received, the BIO MTM is invoked to parse and process it. The BIO MTM routes the message data to the appropriate BIO parser.
The parse and process operations may perform different functions depending on the type of message. Sometimes the message payload may be saved as a file for some other component to process; sometimes the data is processed immediately.
Bearer Independent Object (BIO) messaging allows application communication of arbitrary data types between devices. BIO messaging uses an SMS watcher framework to support messages sent over-the-air to the operating system or application rather than to the end-user.
BIO message types currently supported include compact business card, vCard, vCalendar,
email notification, operator logo, ring tone, and settings for internet access, mail settings,
MMS and WAP. The framework is open, allowing third parties to add further capabilities and value at run-time.
The vCard and vCalendar BIO message file types are also supported over infrared and
Bluetooth links.
The use of text messaging for business purposes has grown significantly during the mid '00's. As companies seek competitive advantages, many employees turn to new technology, collaborative applications, and real-time messaging like SMS, instant messaging, and mobile communications. Some practical uses of text messaging include the use of SMS for sending alerts (e.g. "The phone system is down"), for confirming delivery or other tasks, and for instant communication between a service provider and a client (e.g. stock broker and investor).
As text messaging has proliferated in business, so too have regulations governing its use. In highly regulated industries like financial services, energy and commodities trading, and health care, government regulations have steadily kept pace with technology innovations and now address the need to supervise and archive employee text messages.One regulation specifically governing the use of text messaging in financial services firms engaged in stocks, equities, and securities trading is Regulatory Notice 07-59, Supervision of Electronic Communications, December 2007, issued to member firms by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In 07-59, FINRA noted that "electronic communications", "email", and "electronic correspondence" may be used interchangeably and can include such forms of electronic messaging as instant messaging and text messaging.Industry has had to develop new technology to allow companies to archive their employees' text messages.
Security, confidentiality, reliability and speed of SMS are among the most important guarantees industries like financial services, energy and commodities trading, health care and enterprises demand in their mission-critical procedures. One way to guarantee such a quality of text messaging lies in introducing SLAs (Service Level Agreement), which are common in IT contracts. By providing measurable SLAs, corporates can define reliability parameters and set up a high quality of their services. Just one of many SMS applications that has proven highly popular and successful in the financial services industry is Mobile Receipting.
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