SMS.ac launches Mobile Pods and xPML at CTIA 2006
April 25, 2006 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements
SMS.ac made headlines last year as a lot of users were pissed for being charged for ridiculous mobile charges. Read here and here’s one of it.
I got billed for $25 on my carrier bill from this service a while ago after signing up then getting all this SMS spam constantly for days. I finally went in and shut all the stuff off within a week or so, but at the end of the month it turns out that all those messages were Premium SMS messages!…
Well. I’m not going into much of that but they’ve come up with something new now to milk more money out of consumers. See below..
On April 5,2006 – SMS.ac launches Mobile Pods and xPML at CTIA 2006.
Mobile Pods and xPML™ work together to turn premium Web-based content into monetizable phone applications with minimal effort. Mobile Pods act as content distribution vehicles, providing developers a resource for showcasing applications or content to a growing, billable community of 50 million registered mobile phone users across a pool of more than 400 mobile carriers. The xPML™ technology enables the easy transfer of Web applications directly to wireless handsets, providing developers access to SMS.ac’s user API, mobile API and billing API.
“The Mobile Pods allow third parties the ability to mobilize, globalize and monetize their properties and applications on handsets in less than 24-hours… it’s that simple,” said SMS.ac CEO Michael Pousti. “In the past, consumer access to mobile applications depended on the relationships between individual developers and specific mobile operators. With the launch of Mobile Pods, SMS.ac is providing turnkey access to exciting applications that developers can take live to the world’s largest community of mobile consumers in a nominal period of time.”
Developers can familiarize themselves with Mobile Pods through the worldwide launch of SMS.ac’s “how to” road-show and Webinar, entitled xPML™ University, later this year. To see a directory of additional Mobile Pods available to the SMS.ac community, visit www.sms.ac/PodDirectory
