Posts Tagged ‘SMS’

Twitter-MTN Partnership & Innovation in Cameroon

{ Posted on Dec 07 2010 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Categories : On the road
Twitter and MTN Cameroon have announced a partnership that enables MTN subscribers in Cameroon to send and receive tweets from their mobile phones using SMS. Users access the service by texting "START" to 8711 on MTN's network. Standard messaging rates ...Read More »

A Mobile App Maker In The Extreme

{ Posted on Nov 23 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Categories : From the office
The Extreme North of Cameroon is aptly named for a variety of reasons, apart from being the remote northern terminus of the country. It is, in many respects, a land of extremes with a vastly different character from the ...Read More »

iYam.mobi – Africa’s Mobile Directory

{ Posted on Apr 09 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Categories : From the home office
It’s no secret that mobile devices are the predominant mode of telephony in almost every African country. In a continent of one billion people, the number of African mobile subscribers today is estimated to be around 300 million, representing ...Read More »