Create
Premium SMS interactive services
Thanks to
two-way SMS processing and Premium e-payment, create interactive SMS services
Using the free
tools supplied by MCTEL, you will add easily SMS functions to your Web
site and generate additional income using the affiliation program:
In
numerous countries, it is possible to take advantage of the Premium SMS payment
service offered by mobile phone operators to have users paying small amounts
during SMS requests (usually in the range from 0.10 to 5 US$ or €,
refer to the
SMS Whitepaper for a complete information). When the Premium SMS
e-payment is used, the network mobile operators will charge their mobile
subscriber an additional fee for each send or received Premium SMS, will
collect the monies on the behalf of the SMS information providers, and will pay
the information providers. This Premium immediate and safe e-payment method
could be used to process incoming SMS requests sent by mobile users to
trigger any kind of processing (e.g. search on your computer data) and send
back by SMS the result. You could yourself develop the SMS processing functions
using our API or we may configure automatically our SMS/Web gateway to perform
this processing automatically accessing data already available through your
Web, FTP files, SQL server.
How
could I become Premium SMS Information Provider?
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check
first Premium SMS availability for your country by writing
to MCTEL sales department or reading the
SMS Whitepaper.
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we
will then help you to define your service user interactions and process for you
the administrative paperwork involved with the mobile network operators.
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the
development of your Premium service may be done several ways:
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we
could create your service immediately (in a matter of hours), using our
powerful software SMS migration tools to access your existing computer data,
providing those data could be accessed through conventional means: Web server,
FTP files, SQL server, computer screens (ASCII, VT, IBM 3270).
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you
could use freely
downloadable MCTEL tools and API to develop yourself your Premium SMS
Service on your computer platform.
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you
could ask MCTEL engineers to develop your Premium SMS Service for you on your
computer platforms.
To
operate a Premium SMS interactive service in your country, you will need to use
a SMS gateway connected to all mobile network operators in your country and to
contract with either those network operators or the SMS Gateway operator, in
order to get paid for each Premium SMS sent or received by your application.
You could:
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contract
with MCTEL SMS Gateway that operates Premium SMS shortcodes in several
countries worldwide: in this case you do not need any specialized computer
infrastructure and will use the MCTEL hosting gateway to access the Premium SMS
networks.
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purchase
your own SMS gateway using the MCTEL VIDEOSMS/Gateway software: in this case
you will have to own and operate your own SMS hosting center, connected and
interworking with all mobile networks operators in your country. The initial
and operating costs or such a solution are quite high, and this solution is
usually chosen by high volume SMS information providers.
MCTEL
offer is modular and allows for smooth growth of your SMS services:
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you
could setup your service immediately on MCTEL Shared SMS Gateway, using either
existing shortcodes operated by MCTEL or your own shortcodes.
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when
the traffic growth, you may purchase at your leisure your own SMS Gateway and
connect it to the mobile network operators you want to interwork with. As this
gateway will use the same VIDEOSMS/Gateway than the MCTEL Shared SMS Gateway,
all your applications will work the same way and no additional development
costs will be incurred.
Attractive
rates and revenue-sharing partnership
Using
Premium SMS, you choose yourself the price of your interactive SMS service,
amongst the available rates offered by the mobile networks operators of the
countries you want to operate your service.