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SMS.companion

Short Messaging Services (SMS) provide an effective, personalised communication solution in the form of short text messages sent to hand-held wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. SMS opens up new opportunities to business houses, media managers and advertisers to tap a larger number of customers in a very cost-effective manner.

With Ducont's early realisation of this potential, it has designed and developed SMS.companion to meet the most common, basic and vital requirements for bulk messaging.

Ducont provides a powerful solution with a central virtual SMSC that offers:

• Access to more than 500 operators in the GSM world
• Wide coverage through tie-ups with multiple SMS operators
• A meaningful and convenient user interface

Messaging features

• Support for Push and Pull SMS
• Multiple SMS formats: Flash, Blinking, Ring Tones, Logos, Concatenated SMS
• Premium messaging: Different prices based on the value of content
  
• OTA settings support
  
• English and Arabic messaging (Unicode compliant)
  
• Send SMS in 1-to-1 or 1-to-many modes
  
• Send customised messages using replaceable parameters
  
• Customisable sender ID branding
  
• Opt-in/Opt-out facility
  
• Auto top-up of SMS accounts

Administration features

• Distribution List (DL) management
  
• Content management system for ring tones and logos
  
• SIM hosting and configuration management
  
• System administration and user management
  
• Anti-spam controls
  
• Bulk SMS tariff management
  
• Online message tracking and delivery reports
  
• Message statistics and presentation-quality reports
  
• Prepaid and Post-paid billing support
  
• Billing reports and invoice generation
  
• Throttling and congestion management
  
• Customer-based blacklisting

Support features

• Integration to payment gateway(s)
  
• Integration to billing and other back-end systems
  
• Open APIs to support integration with enterprise systems
  
• Multiple protocol support (including SMPP 3.3 and 3.4)
  
• Online help and user documentation
  
• Integration services and expertise for turnkey services
  
• Customised user interfaces for corporate license installations
  
• Technical support from certified Network Engineers
  

Interested? Contact our Product Manager for more information and a product overview.


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