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Facebook, email and IM available through SMS in the Dominican Republic

Published on Thursday, May 24th by admin

Rating: No need for mobile internet let alone a smartphone

A new service recently launched in the Caribbean’s Dominican Republic has showed hot it is possible to expand popular online services to low income mobile subscribers. The new service is called vSocial and is being offered by the local mobile network operator,VIVA, to its 700,000 subscribers. The service is based on software supplied by ForgetMeNot Software and enables regular handsets to use ‘internet-free apps’ to send and receive internet messaging on any GSM phone with SMS. Continue reading →