I read an interesting post from Steve Song earlier entitled “Why SMS in Africa” which outlines why SMS will remain relevant in the African context for some time to come. I agree with Steve that both IP and non-IP technologies should be considered but want to elaborate on the challenges SMS-based service face.
Naturally, through our [...]

SMS stands for Short Message Service. Almost anyone who owns a mobile phone is comfortable with SMS (even George from the Vodacom adverts). Billions of SMS messages are sent each year where the majority are sent from one person to another. When one looks at leveraging SMS for mobile service delivery, one usually considers the [...]