Here in the Netherlands, the only way to make some money using wireless
technologies is by using SMS.
Almost every show on TV has some sort of SMS game.
We have developed a wireless (SMS/i-mode) solution for lotteries, i was
wondering if this is something that has also been done for I-mode in japan.
Check www.openlot.com and let me know if something like this would work in
the japanese market..
Ed
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--- Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:11 PM
--- To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
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--- Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS/mobile Internet/TV
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---
--- I wanted to try and get some consensus on what is for me the key
--- (stunning) feature of the SMS-TV and SMS-promotion phenomonon currently
--- underway in Europe: the unprecedented power content providers have over
--- operators in controlling pricing and revenue share. It ain't the 90/10
--- Docomo split offers but it's darn close. A buddy of mine hear in
--- Reykjavik, Iceland working with an SMS promotion service company says
--- they are getting an 85/15 split with the biggets operator here. Nice.
---
--- Am I correct in assuming that currently SMS TV and promotions
--- represents
--- far and away the best business proposition for content/service
--- providers?
--- Low (almost no) technology. Large engaged audience. Real, honest to god
--- revenue. What more could you ask?
---
--- J2ME. BREW. i-mode. Code-compile-debug. Cross platform headaches. Plead
--- with the operators for pennies. Why botther. I'm thinkin'
--- boring old SMS
--- baby. Heck, SMS is like kudzu. It just grows, and grows, and grows, and
--- ... (BTW: kudzu is a particulary robust and fast growing vine
--- that grows
--- in the south in the USA. Check it out: http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu/).
---
--- Finally, as I understand it the thing preventing these SMS
--- services from
--- rolling out in the States (ignoring SMS usage) is something to do with
--- lack of support for the codes that participants can type into their
--- handsets. For example to vote during a TV show users type some
--- number. To
--- enter a sweepstakes offer seen on a bottle of Coke they type the number
--- shown. Anyone have any idea when this will be put in place?
---
--- Cheers,
--- Douglass Turner
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